Is there any way to edit the map in an already saved game?

[Totally Not An Illuminate Spy]

What it says on the tin: Long story short, I lost/misplaced the saved map of a project I had on the backburner. However, I still fortunately have that map in the form of a saved game. I'm asking if there's some way/method I could use to edit the save game map, or otherwise extract it somehow.

Basically what I'm asking is, how to turn a savegame into a map editor file - minus the roads and buildings and whatnot.

Any advice would be appreciated.

[barrygreybeard]

depends what you want to do, this would help
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=502750307
and this
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=512314255

[barrygreybeard]

and this too
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=498386331

[grapplehoeker]

Heh and in addition to Barry's suggestions, if you want to clean up your saved game and remove everything you've built on it in order to start afresh, use this. It's a powerful mod, use with care or in this case, use with no care at all ;)
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=417965096

[Totally Not An Illuminate Spy]

Err, that's not it - Basically what I'm asking is, how to turn a savegame into a map editor file - minus the roads and buildings and whatnot. That's my problem.

[Mario]

Originally posted by Madman_Andre:

Err, that's not it - Basically what I'm asking is, how to turn a savegame into a map editor file - minus the roads and buildings and whatnot. That's my problem.

nope, the only way to edit your current savegame is with the mods posted above

[grapplehoeker]

Originally posted by Madman_Andre:

Err, that's not it - Basically what I'm asking is, how to turn a savegame into a map editor file - minus the roads and buildings and whatnot. That's my problem.

Which map did you originally use? Was it one that you made yourself and then lost?
Heh I can sympathise, but you have two options. Either scrub the one you used and start over by rebuilding on it, or make the map again.

[Totally Not An Illuminate Spy]

Originally posted by grapplehoeker:

Originally posted by Madman_Andre:

Err, that's not it - Basically what I'm asking is, how to turn a savegame into a map editor file - minus the roads and buildings and whatnot. That's my problem.

Which map did you originally use? Was it one that you made yourself and then lost?
Heh I can sympathise, but you have two options. Either scrub the one you used and start over by rebuilding on it, or make the map again.

I created a map from scratch in the Map Editor, but lost it due to hard drive failure. However I had a city built on it, and that was saved to the Steam Cloud.

If so, and there's no way to really salvage the map data itself, then it's a shame.

[Elder Brother]

Answered in this post: https://steamcommunity.com/app/255710/discussions/0/3561682880012590730/

[Tsubame ⭐]

You do realize the thread is over 4 years old... Hopefully the OP is still looking to salvage that map lol.

[Totally Not An Illuminate Spy]

Oh wow, this is a blast from the past. Thanks for that link, I'll bookmark it.