Color buildings lets you add a solid color that can be hidden to you buildings. The color is set according to what layer the building is on. The buildings can be created with the various CD2 Symbol Catalogs that are available, or with the HOUSE command. You can also use it as a way of coloring everything in your drawing on a particular layer, not just houses
Color buildings is a way of adding demographic information to your maps. For example, you could make all the buildings on the BLDNG (RELIGIOUS) layer one color, and all those on the BLDNG (GM) layer another. All this information can be hidden from players.
The layers that are affected and the colors that are set are saved with the drawing, CD2’s templates have a suitable set of options saved with the drawing.
To color your buildings:
1 If your buildings are not on the correct layers, Use CHANGE BUILDING LAYERS to correct this.
2 Select Color Buildings. You can see a dialog box with various layers and colors. These are the default settings.
3 Select the Change Now button.
4 To see the effect of your efforts, select Layers > All Bldngs with Color. This hides all the roof tops and lets you see what color the buildings are.
To see the colors: select City > Layers > All BLDNGS with color
To change the layer of a house so that it works with Color Buildings: select City > Change house layer