Putting Chairs under Counters

DaltonSpence

My latest project is designing a diner. I'm having some putting chairs under a counter's edge. Both chair symbols and countertops are on the SYMBOLS sheet and the FURNITURE layer. It's supposed to look like this;

but no matter if I Send to Back the chair symbols or Bring to Front the countertops, when I Redraw the map I get this;

Why is this happening? What can I do to keep the chairs under the countertops?

Monsen

This is a side effect of the Delayed Drawn Symbols system. Symbols are redrawn at the end of the pass. However, the countertops, being polygons are not.

Two ways to fix this is to either set DELAYDRAWSYM to 0 to stop this behavior, or do as Jim suggest and use a dedicated sheet for the counters.

Monsen

That can be an advantage, but remember it is valid for the entire session, so it will affect future maps opened in the same CC3+ session. Not likely to negatively affect most maps though, but worth being aware of if something weird happens.

JimP

Put the chairs on their own sheet. That is how I would do it.

Monsen

This is a side effect of the Delayed Drawn Symbols system. Symbols are redrawn at the end of the pass. However, the countertops, being polygons are not.

Two ways to fix this is to either set DELAYDRAWSYM to 0 to stop this behavior, or do as Jim suggest and use a dedicated sheet for the counters.

DaltonSpence

Should I put DELAYDRAWSYM 0 in the OnOpenMacro note so it is always off?

Monsen

That can be an advantage, but remember it is valid for the entire session, so it will affect future maps opened in the same CC3+ session. Not likely to negatively affect most maps though, but worth being aware of if something weird happens.

Raiko

JimP said:

Put the chairs on their own sheet. That is how I would do it.

This is what I do, I always have several levels of symbol sheets, so anything or below another item is always on a separate sheet. I often use polygons for tables, worksurfaces, etc - any symbols placed above or below them are on separate sheets. 



Not a great example, but the stools on the left are below the polygon.

Fersus

Sorry, slightly off topic, but do you remember where the kegs are from? And if the distortion of the left one is from the Symbol itself or from the extraction of the image?

Raiko

Fersus said:

Sorry, slightly off topic, but do you remember where the kegs are from? And if the distortion of the left one is from the Symbol itself or from the extraction of the image?

Both kegs are from Tom Cartos' Patreon page.
The distorted symbol is just a glitch I assume, I used MS Windows snipping tool, and saved as a jpeg, I guess something went wrong. That symbol was placed at a slight angle in the map.
In the Rusty Dragon map in my gallery, it's not distorted.