Make sure to select the correct one for your printer type. We can buy transparent laser or inkjet printable film to transfer the layout of the streets. Draw reference points on the transparent film.Switch to Acrobat Reader, and set the already determined zoom scale for the Areas view (in my case60 %).With Sharpie draw the outline of the city and some terrain features to be able to align the film with the PDF map.With blue painter’s tape attach a transparent film to the computer screen.

You can use transparent film and Sharpie permanent marker to transfer the layout first to the film by hand and draw the streets later in the game.

Switch back to Acrobat Reader and follow the steps above to determine the zoom scale (in my case 322%).įirst, we will transfer reference points to the game to be able to align the enlarged street layout of the urban areas.

Measure the distance between two objects.

Set the tilt to zero by pressing the R key.

Scroll to the top of the view and set the map to horizontal by holding the middle button (wheel) and moving the mouse left and right.

Zoom all the way out with the mouse wheel.

In Cities: Skylines press ECS to get back to the edit view.

Adjust the number to get the same distance of the two features on the PDF map, and write down the number (in my case60 %).ĭetermine the zoom scale for the edit view

Use Alt-Tab to switch to the Acrobat Reader.

Measure the distance of two map features in the Areas view.

First, open the PDF file in Acrobat Reader to the able to switch out to Windows from the game.

Determine the zoom scale to use for the Areas view We will also need blue painters tape to safely attach the transparencies to the frame of the computer screen. We can use a Sharpie permanent marker and clear plastic sheets, or Snagit and a printer to transfer the street map to transparent film. The web page at contains the link to the high-resolution scan of the map in PDF format. Once you subscribe to the Los Angeles map in the Steam Workshop, the map appears in your map list in Cities: Skylines as “New Map”. In this example, we will transfer the Pacific Electric Railway map of the Los Angeles area from 1947 to the Los Angeles area map by macmcginty. I have used this fun, but very time consuming “analog” method before discovering the Image Overlay 2 mod described in Transfer streets to your city in Cities: Skylines using a PNG image fileĬities: Skylines is a great environment to build scale models of real cities.

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