How to draw a glacier?

eleran · May 2008

I am making a map for an upcoming RPG campaign, and I would like to add a glacier to a northern section of one continent.

Any advice as to how to go about drawing a glacier in CC3? It will be about 300 miles across and 200 or so north to south

Monsen · May 2008

Grimur Fjeldsted posted this on the CC2-L mailing list about a year ago, regarding ice caps. Maybe this can help you too?

Posted By: Grimur Fjeldsted1. Download this PNG:
www.mapventures.com/files/icecap_fill.png

2. Import PNG as bitmap fill(default settings)

3. Create new sheet ICE and place it one sheet above TEXT sheet.

4. Draw polygons for areas of the icecaps

5. Change fillstyle and choose the download PNG

6. Add effects to ICE sheet:
a. Glow (outside, R 172; G 241; 255; Strenght 2; Blur 3.0)
b. Drop shadow (X 4; Y 4; Opacity 25; Blur 10)
c. RGB Matrix (load "lighten.colormatrix")

The result should look like this map (a show & tell if you want).

http://www.mapventures.com/files/icecap_trial.jpg

eleran · May 2008

Thank you. I will try that tonight.

FarsightX3 · May 2008

Nice, I enjoy his maps. Any idea where I can find more of his? I assume I can take the landmass into photoshop and fill it and then import it back?

Monsen · May 2008

His site is at www.mapventures.com. You'll find many maps in his atlas section.

Yes. You can edit any fill style in Photoshop or similar. Just load in the bitmaps used in the fill style (You should find them in CC3\Bitmaps\Tiles).
After editing them, just use the Tools->Import Bitmap Fill Styles to load in the new files.

eleran · May 2008

Monsen,

I followed your instructions to the letter, but the ice is not translucent like in the maps you linked to. They are solid opaque fills covering everything below them. Any ideas?

Monsen · May 2008

Your fill style is probably not set up to use the transparency of the file. Just open up your fill style dialog, go to bitmap fills, find your fill style in the list, and switch it's transparency setting to alpha transparency. That should make it translucent.

eleran · May 2008

That was it. Thanks a lot for the help!!

RunningWolf · April 2012

I wasn't able to import the fill style, once it said to choose "path relative to this drawing" or "absolute path" what do I do?

Monsen · April 2012

Depends on where you have stored the fill bitmap file. If it is somewhere inside the CC3 directory, choose relative to CC3 path. If it is in the same folder as your drawing, choose relative to drawing. Otherwise use an absolute path.

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