WIP Thyra

after about 10 failures I've started a map using the Jon Roberts City template for the background and water (and walls & towers and bevelled high ground) before switching to SS5 for houses. I was startled to find that my limited number of annuals (going back only to 2022-ish) doesn't feature many castles, never mind castles that will 'play nice' with other symbol sets.

Here's my first attempt at a castle mound. Incidentally it is the first attempt (that worked) at using connecting symbols. It happened by accident and when I tried with the SS5 walls it was a dismal failure. Yes I know the bevel is way too light, but I'm working on it.


LoopysueRickoRoyal ScribeC.C. CharronQuenten

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  • 8 days later
  • hi I don't know what's going on but yesterday I could work with cut through shapes but this morning they are just sitting on the map in glorious magenta. I have made sure the various settings are exactly the same as when I stopped working on the map yesterday just in case I had messed them up early this morning but the cut through is still sitting on top of the land in magenta.


  • LoopysueLoopysue ProFantasy 🖼️ 40 images Cartographer

    The affect seems to be working ok for me.

    Try closing and reopening the app.


  • edited November 13

    That is what I'm trying to edit, however I'll try closing and reopening.

    EDIT: I tried closing CC3+ and reopening, but no luck.

  • jslaytonjslayton Moderator, ProFantasy Mapmaker
    edited November 13

    The knockout color for your Color Key effect is a blue color (color 71) rather than magenta.

    If you would like to have both color 71 and color 6 (magenta) be knockout colors, add another Color Key effect with color 6 to the list of effects for that sheet right below or above the existing one.

    Another option to avoid having two Color Key effects would be to change the color of the existing canals to magenta and the color of the current Color Key sheet effect to 6 if you want to use knockout drawtools that work with magenta.

    Loopysue
  • The template is the Serpentine City and the colours and effects are 'out of the box', in other words I haven't done anything to the colours, @jslayton. I definitely haven't changed the Color Key's colour.

    The blue that you are seeing is the background sea colour and its effect when close to land. Yesterday I drew a large land mass as an island and went on to create the network of canals without a problem even when I went across other canal lines.

    I'll try putting a second default Color Key in and see what happens.

  • LoopysueLoopysue ProFantasy 🖼️ 40 images Cartographer
    edited November 13

    Yes, the original Color Key matches the canals you drew - in that blue colour.

    If you switch off the sheet effects you see them light blue, instead of the ocean. They are cutting (at least on my machine they are), but adding a magenta patch as you did in your screen shot above won't work until you add the second Color Key as Joe indicated.

    No sheet effects.

    Sheet effects.

    Don't delete or alter that first Color Key, or these blue shapes will no longer work. Just add the new default one.

    Royal Scribe
  • have done as Joe suggested and am now chosing colours for different types of structures before placing symbols.

    LoopysueRoyal Scribe
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