Switching overland styles
Hello,
Me again, it's been a while ! I've been focused on writing my novel so I didn't need to draw too many maps. But now I'm back to the drawing table, with a question that's probably been asked a thousand times. I did my world map using the Mike Schley style, and I'd like to see how it would look using the Wielink style. I will obviously have to place all my symbols (mountains, forests, etc) again, but I'd like to keep my landmass shapes.
I can think of 3 ways I'd want to do that :
1. Ideally, I'd keep working in the same project and just switch the default style to Wielink, and edit my landmasses to use a Wielink landmass style, but I haven't figured out how to do that. Worse, when I tried drawing new landmasses using a Wielink style, it didn't work !
2. If I can't keep the same project, I wouldn't mind creating a new one, but then I'd need to import my old landmasses so I don't have to redo all of them. Is that even possible ?
3. Worst case, I could redo all my landmasses in a new project but I'd want to take a screenshot of my old map, put it in background of my new map so I can just draw over it to end up with the same shapes (minus the fractal random). Is there a way to temporarily set an image as background for a map ?
Thanks in advance, I hope you guys will be able to help me out !
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Sv.
Me again, it's been a while ! I've been focused on writing my novel so I didn't need to draw too many maps. But now I'm back to the drawing table, with a question that's probably been asked a thousand times. I did my world map using the Mike Schley style, and I'd like to see how it would look using the Wielink style. I will obviously have to place all my symbols (mountains, forests, etc) again, but I'd like to keep my landmass shapes.
I can think of 3 ways I'd want to do that :
1. Ideally, I'd keep working in the same project and just switch the default style to Wielink, and edit my landmasses to use a Wielink landmass style, but I haven't figured out how to do that. Worse, when I tried drawing new landmasses using a Wielink style, it didn't work !
2. If I can't keep the same project, I wouldn't mind creating a new one, but then I'd need to import my old landmasses so I don't have to redo all of them. Is that even possible ?
3. Worst case, I could redo all my landmasses in a new project but I'd want to take a screenshot of my old map, put it in background of my new map so I can just draw over it to end up with the same shapes (minus the fractal random). Is there a way to temporarily set an image as background for a map ?
Thanks in advance, I hope you guys will be able to help me out !
o>
Sv.
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If you then create a new HW map of exactly the same proportions as the old one, you can paste the objects by using the Edit/Paste menu, and typing 0,0 on your keyboard and pressing enter.
Everything now being pasted into a proper HW template you should now have all the expected HW drawing tools and all the other bells and whistles that go with it.
Hope that helps
When you use the Edit paste menu, you need to type 0,0 and Enter.
Let me know if it still doesn't work
The other reason its not working might be that you aren't giving the clipboard an origin. Keep a constant eye on the command line at the bottom of the map to know what its expecting you to do
- Keep two windows of CC3 open, one with your existing map, one with the new template. Much easier than switching back and forth
- You can right click the change properties button, and select the 'Change like drawtool' option. This allows you to change an entity (like a landmass) drawn in one style into another style. Do this after copying the landmass to the new template to change it to the proper style without redrawing it.
- Make sure you do as Loopysue said about keeping an eye on the command line and selecting the origin point properly. If you don't complete the copy command properly, there won't be anything on your clipboard to paste, so that is important.
Edit: Because I actually do know which "your/you're" to use...