OpenCities Planner is totally customisable. In this tutorial, we’ll learn about Icons, Labels, and the different kinds of Buttons

There are two methods of selecting buttons to edit. You can do so via the Project Bar interface or by using Edit Tool.

Edit Tool is quickest and very intuitive, so you may want to familiarise yourself with the View & Edit Tools Tutorial before proceeding.

We’ll start with reference, then give some tasks to practice what you’ve learned.

Ribbon

We’ll start with the main part of our interface – The Ribbon. To edit any button, you can switch to Edit Tool and simply click the button you want to modify or open the Ribbon tab of the Interface window which you’ll find here:

Each available Ribbon button has a ‘section’ where you can edit whatever is editable.

You can hide extraneous buttons or customise them to suit your project. In the above example, we’ve edited the icons and labels.

Content Buttons

Content Buttons – occasionally referred to as Circle Buttons – live on the right side of Project View.

Groups and Layers are edited individually. You can click-to-edit them directly with Edit Tool, or choose them from Object Manager to open their Properties Windows.

However, there are a few Special Content Buttons that can only be edited from the Interface window. Find them here:

These buttons appear when there are multiple Viewpoints or Group/Layer Buttons and they cannot fit on the screen.

Tools

Tools is kind of a big deal – so it has its own dedicated Window. Each Tool serves as a tab where you can toggle availability or customise the icon and label.

Your Mission

You’ve learned everything you need to know to edit the main interface buttons.

Here’s are a few tasks to help reenforce what you’ve learned

1. Remove Project Info from the Ribbon
2. Edit the Ribbon Content button, change the icon and label. If your new label is two words, use a line break. Reminder: <br>
3. Create multiple Viewpoints, then choose a custom icon for and rename the Special Content Button
4. Hide the Transparency and 2D/3D Tools from the View Mode
5. Rename the remaining Tools – and give them new icons

How’d you do? Compare it to our example project: Between the Buttons