Live Mapping - Hiding in the forest.

Monsen

Looks like I'll be streaming again.

In this session, we have a peaceful forest where nothing at all happens. Completely safe, I swear. Just leave your weapons at the entrance.

As usual, the stream is available on YouTube. You should find the time in your timezone in the left forum sidebar, or by visiting the video page. See you all there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIZUHh7lCO0

Don Anderson Jr.

Oooh I hope I can make it.

Wyvern

In this session, we have a peaceful forest where nothing at all happens. Completely safe, I swear.

So a closer view of places just like Mirkwood in the maps Ralf's been working on from time to time then? 🌳 😎🌲🕷️🌳

Loopysue

30 minute shout :)

Monsen

Here's the map for anyone interested.

Quiet Little Forest of Quietness.FCW

Loopysue

Thanks, Remy :)

That was a really good stream. I hadn't thought of mixing styles that way before.

Don Anderson Jr.

I missed the first portion. Will have to rewatch it later. Thanks for the stream.

His accent is very thick for me as a Canadian. I have to be really attentive and watch his mouth on certain words. So glad that he's visible in the video. Not any hate on this, it's a cool accent for sure.

Royal Scribe

Ahhh, I can see that I have some of the ship's interior symbols but not all of them. And good timing, as I was considering adding another annual or two this month. Can anyone help me identify which annual I'm missing for these symbols?

Monsen

Those should be standard Cosmographer 3 Symbols.

Royal Scribe

Oh, hmmm. I do have Cosmographer 3. Maybe I should reinstall it? I will figure it out. Thank you for a great tutorial. I learned several new techniques.

DaltonSpence

I had no trouble with the symbols myself but then again I download everything. I decided I wanted to align the fill styles of the deck and bulkhead with the ship's direction. The deck was fairly simple: I used SHADEPOLY2 to align the fill and Numeric Edit to set the "Shade Only Copy" flag. The bulkhead was trickier: first I had to convert a thick path into a closed polygon by;

1. Using Extract Properties to get the thickness and other properties of the bulkhead.
2. Setting the line width to zero and using OFFSET1 at half the bulkhead thickness on each side of the path. 
3. Delete the original path and using CMB to join the created paths into one.
4. Close the path into a polygon by usingNumeric Edit and align the fill as above.

Monsen

Yea, aligned fills makes it much more friendly for rotation. I didn't have the time to cover that in the stream, but it is worth doing if you plan to copy and paste it rotated like this.