Tutorials

The list below consists of tutorials for SimCity 4 and Rush Hour. Please make a note that these are just links to other sites who have the tutorials.

If you happen to come by a broken link, or you happen to see a tutorial that is not listed here, please email me at Judhudson@knology.net so I can fix it.

Official Tutorials

• SimCity.com – SimCity 4 Tips & Tricks

Gameplay Tutorials

• SimCity 4 Devotion – 13 things a city MUST have to be “perfect”
• SimCity Central – SimCity 4 Newbie Tutorial
• SimCity Central – Building Reference List
• SimCity Central – A Few Gameplay Tips
• SimCity Central – Cap Relief List
• Simpage – Balancing your Budget
• Simpage – Why aren’t there Jobs for your Sims?
• Simpage – The Trick with Transportation
• Simtropolis – A Guide to Naming Your City
• Simtropolis – Making Money the Easy Way (Without Cheats)
• Simtropolis – Lesson on Realism Part 1: General Tips
• Simtropolis – How To Make a Roadless City
• Simtropolis – How to build a Hard Level City
• Simtropolis – Fast Population and Profit Growth on Hard Game Play Setting
• The Simmers Club Forum – Big City Tutorial
• The Simmers Club Forum – Money Making Tutorial
• YouTube – How to layout your Cities
• YouTube – SimCity 4 Tutorial #1
• YouTube – SimCity 4 Tutorial #2
• YouTube – Rush Hour Tutorial

Regions/Landscaping

• SC4Ever – Creating new regions in SimCity 4
• SimCity 4 Devotion – Creating a Waterfall
• SimCity 4 Devotion – How to build a nice Slope
• SimCity 4 Devotion – Terraforming Your World
• SimCity 4 Devotion – Creating Area Strip Maps and Multiple SC4 Regions
• SimCity 4 Devotion – Precise terraforming: Mayor Mode tools
• SimCity 4 Devotion – Harbor: Make it easy
• SimCity 4 Devotion – Building a Harbor: Fine Tuning
• SimCity Central – Regional Customization Part 1: City Plot Layout
• SimCity Central – Regional Customization Part 2: Grayscale Heightmapping
• Simtropolis – Make Eye-Pleasing Realistic Beaches
• Simtropolis – Working With Hills
• Simtropolis – Creating Realistic Lakes and Ponds
• Simtropolis – Create Straight Edged Coastlines, Canals and Ports
• YouTube – How to build Trail Parks
• YouTube – How to build Realistic Beach Boardwalks

Roads/Rails/Transportation

• SimCity Central – How to Make Underwater Tunnels
• SimCity Central – Special Tricks Using Transportation
• Simtropolis – Methods on Mass Transit
• Simtropolis – How to make Roundabouts for your City
• Simtropolis – Transportation Guide — A Basic Overview
• Simtropolis – Building a Realistic working Rail Yard
• Simtropolis – Underwater Highways Made Easy
• Simtropolis – Curving Roads
• Simtropolis – Sunken Highway Onramps and Offramps
• Simtropolis – Sunken Highway Tutorial
• Simtropolis – On-Ramps and Off-Ramps for Sunken Highways
• Simtropolis – Overpasses with Rail Lines
• Simtropolis – Creating Multi/Split Level Highways In Game
• Simtropolis – Merging Split and Ground Highways
• Simtropolis – Creating A Realistic Highway Junction
• Simtropolis – Creating Good Ground-Level Highways
• Simtropolis – How to Build a Land Bridge
• Simtropolis – Making Curves With Rural Highway Mod (RHW)
• Simtropolis – Realistic Rural Rails
• YouTube – How to build GLR
• YouTube – How to rural Highways
• YouTube – How to build realistic Overpasses
• YouTube – How to build Tunnels
• YouTube – How to build Sunken Highways
• YouTube – How to use the NAM
• YouTube – How to build dual/double-decker Networks
• YouTube – How to draw HSR Tracks
• YouTube – How to build Bus-Reserved Roads & One-Way Streets
• YouTube – How to use SAM Street Mods
• YouTube – How to draw a Road to 3 sided Avenue Intersection
• YouTube – A look at Split Avenue Crossroading
• YouTube – Left Over Avenue Tutorial

Zoning

• SimCity 4 Devotion – Getting business overloaded with Customers
• SimCity Central – Detailing your Lots; Hints and Tips
• SimCity Central – Building Stages
• SimCity Central – Building Pollution Chart
• SimCity Central – Power Comparison Chart
• Simtropolis – Suburbs: Creating Realism in Sim City 4
• Simtropolis – Creating Realistic Out of Town Shopping Centers
• Simtropolis – Basic use of Smoncrie’s Hole Digger Lots
• Simtropolis – Suburbs and Small Towns
• Simtropolis – A Guide To Realistic Farms
• Simtropolis – Farming Tutorial
• Simtropolis – Suburbs: Layout, Ideas and Design

BAT Tutorials

• SimCity 4 Devotion – How to get rid of the glitches between pieces
• SimCity Central – BAT Tutorial: Part 1
• SimCity Central – BAT Tutorial: Part 2

LOT Editor Tutorials

• SimCity 4 Devotion – Transit enabled lots, the easy way
• SimCity 4 Devotion – Creating a GLR-in-Avenue Station
• SimCity 4 Devotion – Making underbridge content through lot resizing
• SimCity 4 Devotion – Making growable lots larger than 6×6: Megalots
• SimCity 4 Devotion – Advice on Props and Dependencies
• SimCity 4 Devotion – Clearing a Lot in the Lot Editor
• SimCity 4 Devotion – Making Lots that float on Water
• SimCity 4 Devotion – Beginners: Making a Lot From Model to Game
• SimCity 4 Devotion – Guide to good lot making practices for Sharing

Downloading/Installing

• SimCity Central – Installing Custom Content
• Simtropolis – How to: Install Custom Background
• Simtropolis – How To Add Custom Music to the Game
• YouTube – How to download buildings for MAC on Sim City 4
• YouTube – How to Download Nukes in Sim City 4

Misc.

• SimCity 4 Devotion – Guide to the creation of Custom Content
• SimCity 4 Devotion – Keyboard Shortcuts
• SimCity 4 Devotion – Conflicting Plugins Troubleshooting
• SimCity 4 Devotion – Textures: Dealing with layers and transparencies
• SimCity 4 Devotion – How to enchance an image in Photoshop
• SimCity 4 Devotion – How to make Mosaics
• SimCity 4 Devotion – Creating “Square” Region Images
• SimCity 4 Devotion – Mapping your cities with Photoshop
• YouTube – How to build Canals
• YouTube – How to get the Money Tree