isometric contours

HelenAA

If I want contours what do I do? The variable greens don't work for me at all.*

I have added the fills ftom CD3 and Cities of Schley which would work if I had the graduated black fills and the graduated white fills in Isometric. I don't.

Not sure what to do in this circumstance.

* I have tweaked the background because I don't like the flat green that I swaped for a lightly textured box drawn over the background.

mike robel

Hi Helen,

I make lots of contour maps, but mine are more like military ones, so I don't know if I can help you, but it would help me if you provided a screen shot of your map.

Thanks

Mike

Quenten

I use bevel shaded on mine, as per my Tatilana maps

HelenAA

here's a close up of the region that I want some kind of indicator of height in. I've been using Blur but I'm not happy with the results. how does bevel shading work @Quenten ?

mike robel

I just use the smooth polygon tool to outline the contour and then fill it with green or brown shades with the contour line being the same color as the fill. To me, darker contour areas represent higher elevation. @Loopysue likes them the to represent lower elevations, but to me it looks like you are looking down a hole. This is a portion of the first map I ever made with CC3.

This is a desert region in California so the ground is brown while green indicates forest or orange groves in this case.

mike robel

Here is a region of Germany where I served. The first one shows the area without contour lines. The little symbols are for coniferous and deciduous trees.

And here I turned on brown contour lines.

Quenten

@HelenAA The best way to show you is to send the fcw of my map.

Ruslana and surrounds.FCW

HelenAA

@Quenten I copied Contour 4 sheet from your map [very many thanks by the way] and pasted into a blank sheet on my map and I'm puzzeled as to why is the shading grey, and very dark grey at that?

Quenten

Just change the intensity and light settings on the Bevel effect, that should do it.