Editing a finished city
A city saves its lot plan and build settings inside its own folder. You can close the place, come back, and keep working on it.
Pick the city up again
Select anything inside the city, or the city's folder. The City Generator shows a button named Edit plus the city's name. Press it and the dock loads the settings the city was built with. A note at the top of the dock names the city your changes go to.
Change one layer
| Button | What it rebuilds |
|---|---|
| Change buildings | Every building, on the saved lots and seeds. Use it to switch between Bundle, Facade and Graybox. |
| Change props | Plants, parked cars and street furniture. |
| Change roads | The road style of the city's streets. |
| Add details | Door paths, ground variation and footpaths you ticked after the build. |
| Regenerate | Only the stages you tick. Everything else is kept. |
A button appears once a setting in its group differs from what the city was built with. Each is one undo step.
Edit by hand
A generated city is made of the same things you place by hand.
- Its streets are ordinary roads. The Roads tool's Edit, Upgrade, Roadside and Add items all work on them.
- Its buildings are ordinary buildings. Move, resize or restyle them, or open one in the Building Designer.
- A Hole model cuts a city building the same way it cuts any other.
Hand edits are protected
Once you move, resize, remove or restyle a building by hand, or change the road layout, the plugin stops replacing buildings city-wide. The status line says what blocks it. For a road edit, the way on is to undo the edit or generate a new city.
The plugin protects your edits. It does not replan the city around them. So do the city-wide passes first: settle on a bundle and a building mode, then start editing by hand.
Checking a city
The city folder records counts as attributes, for example Seed, DroppedRoads, UnfilledLots, UnreachableEntrances, GeneratedInstances and RenderedParts. Select the folder and read them in the Properties panel. RenderedParts is the number to watch if the city has to run on phones.