My 3rd map, using the Spectrum Overland style
Using the brilliant Live Mapping tutorial courtesy of @Ralf , I created my 3rd map Nordlander in CC3+. This one was a lot of fun! I thoroughly enjoyed the forests and adding the trees. I may have went a bit overboard naming everything (this time in German!) but I think that this is the one so far that I'm most happy with.
Quick question for all of you professionals though, is there a way to alternate simply by left-click between say a deciduous tree, a dead pine, and a pine? I love using the variations of each tree but I'd love to simply go through the gamut of a selection of them as opposed to placing pine, then switching over to dead pine and placing that, and then going to deciduous, then doing the whole thing over again. Seems like there's gotta be an easier way. Am I missing something or is that not a feature?
Either way, I have LOVED doing everything here with CC3+! I thought this was going to be the most off-putting incredibly difficult (according to some people online) program ever but it's become extremely easy and I love all of this so much! Thank you to all of those who have helped me on my journey of cartography! :)
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That's a really neat map, Matthew :)
You have already been using the collections of trees in the style. Those are the symbols shown with a little plus sign in the top left corner.
You could make your own version of the catalogue with all the trees in one collection quite easily using the symbol manager, though the reason this isn't already done is because such a set would be rather large to TAB through if you ended up with a dead pine when you really wanted a living deciduous in that spot.
Remy did a vid here on how to make customised symbol collections. If you choose to do that make sure you save it under a new name and don't overwrite the existing catalogues.
The technique has improved a lot between the first and third. Visually it is very pleasing. Congratulations and Onwards!
Beautiful map! Well done.
The “Sort Symbols on Map” feature frees you from having to place trees next to each other in a particular way. You could sprinkle some pine trees in an area, then sprinkle some deciduous, maybe a few dead trees here and there, and then sort symbols to get them to overlap properly.
That is exactly what I did, but what I'd love more than anything is to choose 3 or 4 or however many symbols to alternate between whenever I left-click.
When you have a symbol on your crosshairs, left click is reserved for symbol manipulation - mirror, scale, etc, for the symbol you have on your crosshairs.
When you are using a collection, like the trees, you can hit the TAB key to get the next symbol in that collection - providing you don't have the collection expanded. It must be collapsed for the random presentation of the symbols to work. Maybe you have been having problems with that, while not realising that the expanded collection prevents the random thing from happening?
If you want more varied collections you will need to make your own, but that vid I linked to earlier will show you how.
There are drawing tools for forests and woods in that style. They will fill an area with a random selection of trees, as shown and named by the drawing tool. This can speed things up quite a bit, and you can add more trees in the gaps or around the edges by hand.