City Designer 2 is an add-on for CC3 that allows you to create urban areas from all genres. It has a huge range of smart symbols (over 1000) ranging from primitive to futuristic and fantastical. It has features to add custom buildings and even whole streets. A powerful index function lets you add an hyperlinked , alphabetical list text of any map.
Step-by-step guide to city creation
At the individual building level
· You can create custom shaped buildings in many pre-set styles. The styles include shading that can be swapped around on the fly, roof hatching (such as Thatching) and custom roof edges.
· Add your own building styles to the list with combinations of colors, roof edges, hatching, roof overlap and other features
· Add frills such as dormers, chimneys and extensions to the pre-defined symbols and custom buildings
· CC3’s city symbols and frills are "smart". Buildings will align themselves to roads then offset from the road. Staircases lock to building edges, dormers on roofs.
At the street level
· Road networks are very easy to create
· CD2 will create random streets using a large set of parameters that you control. Select from all the house styles you have defined at the building level.
· CD2 has grids that you can align to roads, making house creation along roads very easy.
Demographic information
· CD2 will add an easily controlled labeled grid to you map.
· CC3 will extract text such as street names and add it to the map with its grid coordinates. Click on the label to zoom to the text.
· CD2 will color your building symbols so that if you hide the correct layers, you can see what all the buildings are for. This information can be concealed from your players, while maintaining the beautiful appearance of you map.