Unable to utilise the hotkeys in CC3
Hello all, I joined the forum yesterday because I am having considerable difficulty beginning my first map. The issue arose from my needing to have a desert on a landmass lead to the coast without overlapping it. Scanning through the forums I learned of the 'Trace' Function. However, using it has been an issue.
When I begin painting my desert terrain onto my map, after placing my first point the following appears in the command bar:
Next Point (DEL - back, Space - Randomize, L/R Arrows - Depth, U/D Arrows - Strength, T - Trace):
However, pressing T simply writes the letter 't' into the command bar next to what is written above, and does nothing else. Thinking I had to enter it in as a command, I pressed enter, but this simply completed the terrain I was drawing á la right click. I tried the others. Delete, Up, Down, Left and Right all yield absolutely nothing and pressing space again completes the current terrain.
Am I doing something wrong? The hotkeys prompted in the command bar do nothing, and it's preventing my completing my work to satisfaction. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Best Regards.
EDIT: While I have a help thread up, I might as well ask my second question. Is there a way to tint the terrain textures? As in, make my sand a deep reddish orange rather than the default light yellow? Or have blue grass or red snow, etc?
When I begin painting my desert terrain onto my map, after placing my first point the following appears in the command bar:
Next Point (DEL - back, Space - Randomize, L/R Arrows - Depth, U/D Arrows - Strength, T - Trace):
However, pressing T simply writes the letter 't' into the command bar next to what is written above, and does nothing else. Thinking I had to enter it in as a command, I pressed enter, but this simply completed the terrain I was drawing á la right click. I tried the others. Delete, Up, Down, Left and Right all yield absolutely nothing and pressing space again completes the current terrain.
Am I doing something wrong? The hotkeys prompted in the command bar do nothing, and it's preventing my completing my work to satisfaction. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Best Regards.
EDIT: While I have a help thread up, I might as well ask my second question. Is there a way to tint the terrain textures? As in, make my sand a deep reddish orange rather than the default light yellow? Or have blue grass or red snow, etc?
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It takes some getting used to, but keep your eye on that command line at the bottom - if CC3 needs something from you, that will be where it well tell you.
Hope this helps.
Tinting textures: You would have to open the textures in a photo editor like Fireworks, Photoshop, GIMP or similar program to do that. I recommend making new versions of the PNGs and new drawing tools based on them rather than overwriting your original PNGs.
You could also copy the entity with the original texture to another sheet above the sheet the original entity is on, change the fill style to solid and the color to something like red or blue, and a transparency sheet effect to that new sheet of around 50%. That will "color" the original below it.
Thanks for your help with the tint, also.
Normally, when you see press the t key, the prompt should immediately change to "Entity to trace:" (Assuming that the prompt originally offered the option of T - Trace of course).
Happy mapping.