sc4-region-census

A DLL Plugin for SimCity 4 that adds a region census UI.

The region census panel shows the totals for each RCI group in the region. It also allows the player to export a CSVfile with statistics for the individual cities. The CSV file is written to Documents/SimCity 4/Region_View/<Region Name> using UTF-8 encoding.

The region census UI can be activated from the region view using one of the following methods:

Clicking the middle mouse button.
Using the RegionCensus cheat.

The plugin can be downloaded from the Releases tab: https://github.com/0xC0000054/sc4-region-census/releases

System Requirements

SimCity 4 version 641
Windows 10 or later

The plugin may work on Windows 7 or later with the Microsoft Visual C++ 2022 x86 Redistribute installed, but I do not have the ability to test that.

Installation

Close SimCity 4.
Copy SC4RegionCensus.dll into the Plugins folder in the SimCity 4 installation directory.
Copy RegionCensusUI.dat into your SimCity 4 Plugins folder.
Start SimCity 4.

Troubleshooting

The plugin should write a SC4RegionCensus.log file in the same folder as the plugin.
The log contains status information for the most recent run of the plugin.

License

This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT License.
See LICENSE.txt for more information.

3rd party code

gzcom-dll Located in the vendor folder, MIT License.
EABase Located in the vendor folder, BSD 3-Clause License.
EASTL Located in the vendor folder, BSD 3-Clause License.
SC4Fix - MIT License.
Windows Implementation Library - MIT License
ATL/AUX for ATL 7 - Public Domain

Source Code

Prerequisites

Visual Studio 2022

Building the plugin

Open the solution in the src folder
Update the post build events to copy the build output to you SimCity 4 application plugins folder.
Build the solution

Debugging the plugin

Visual Studio can be configured to launch SimCity 4 on the Debugging page of the project properties. I configured the debugger to launch the game in full screen with the following command line:
-intro:off -CPUcount:1 -w -CustomResolution:enabled -r1920x1080x32

You may need to adjust the resolution for your screen.

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