Cultivated Ground Symbols
I need to add a few symbols to indicate there is cultivated ground in a region of my map. I don't need a fill style, just a few symbols. If anyone can point me in the right direction, I'd be most grateful.
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I'm doing something with SS1 right now so this is something I just happen to know - there may be other places but I haven't got that far just yet.
How about showing us an extract of your map so that we can suggest the best match for it?
I did a large quantity of battle diagrams for a series of books on the Peninsular War, where I used bitmap fills to produce cultivated ground and I'd be happy to show some of those if there's any interest.
Is it in the same style as the one you want the cultivation symbols for?
I'm a bit confused, you see, since the map you are showing seems to already have cultivation symbols (a fill in this case). Are you looking for something that is a symbol instead of this fill?
And I agree with Sue; it's a nice map (though I'm not sure what a lot of the unkeyed symbols are meant to be showing), but it doesn't seem to need any fresh cultivated land symbols.
Use either CTRL+C or Edit-->Copy.
Then select the things you want to copy, right click and do it. Once the pink selection marks have disappeared the copying has been done and the objects should be on your clipboard.
When you move to the map you want to paste them in use either Edit-->Paste or CTRL+V. Then the objects will appear in outline on your cursor and you can paste them where you wish.
The siege map was done for a military history book series and many of the items not shown in the key were explained by text related to the map. Also, publishers don't seem to like over-complex map keys - the reader tends to have some knowledge of the subject and can normally work out what the map is showing. I'd be happy to explain any parts that are obscure to a non-military reader - I can get very boring in that way :-)
Unfortunately, I can't show the map I'm working on, as my friend may well want to publish it as a game when it's finished. Hopefully, I've now resolved my immediate problem and can just say thanks for being willing to help. Sometimes these things are difficult to explain and I think the confusion was probably of my making.
By the way, I just encountered a small problem. I want to copy an arrangement of symbols from one CC3+ map to another. I've followed the manual instructions but, when I try to paste the symbols into the second map, I'm told the clipboard is empty - ???
You have to give CC3 a copy origin. That's either a single click in the middle of the items you are copying so that you can place them easily, or enter a pair of coordinates 0,0 (zero comma zero) on the keyboard and press enter if you want to paste them in exactly the same place in the destination map (where you need to type the same coordinates and enter again to paste the copied objects).
Sorry about that! I think I must be a bit tired.
The conversion step itself is easy though,
run the REPLACEIMAGENAMESDWG command on the command line, and use @ for the text to replace and # as the replacement text.
This will replace the references to the data directory in CC3+ with the installation directory in CC3/Viewer. Note that the map will continue to work in CC3+, but the multi-resolution system won't work properly, so it will use the same resolution no matter if you are zoomed far out or far in. (It will work in CC3 though)
Note that you will get problems with the effects though, I don't think this can be fixed other than deleting them and recreating them using CC3.
I think I've done something wrong, because the effects and resolution seem to be fine when I put the file back into CC3+.
You can check if was executed correctly by running the LISTIMAGENAMESDWG command [takes a few seconds to complete before it dispays the result] (you can run it both before and after REPLACEIMAGENAMESDWG to check the difference). There is a lot of data in the output of that command, but one of the things you should see in there is the path/filename of every image in the drawing. If you run it before the replace command, all file names should start with @ (ex: @Symbols\Maps\CC3\Cartouches\Scale Bar_VH.PNG), while after you run the replace command, they should all start with # (ex: #Symbols\Maps\CC3\Cartouches\Scale Bar_VH.PNG). If that looks fine, then everything is as it should, just save the file and open it in CC3.
If it doesn't work in CC3, double check that you haven't used a style you don't have accessible in CC3 (Such as Mike Schley), and if it requires an add-on, that add-on needs to be installed in CC3 too.
I fear I'm entering into realms in which I am out of my comfort zone. I'll persevere a little longer but I think I may just go back, fire up CC3 and do the work again. It's a mistake of my making and I have learned something from the experience already: THINK BEFORE YOU MAP!.
These commands only work in CC3+.
Based on your description, it sounds like you did run the replace command correctly.