Is there a way to add topographic lines to your map?
Hello there,
I have been working my way through the software and also using FT3 to create some really cool maps! I was wondering if there was a way to add topographic lines to the map to showcase mountain elevation in either FT3 or CC3+?
Thank you in advance!
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FT3 shows elevation already. Most of the shaders blend the contours and add hill shading.
If you open World Colouring and find the Intensity tab you can switch off the hill shading by moving the Shadows slider to "none" and hitting Apply.
Then if you go to the Altitude tab and uncheck the Blend tickboxes you will see something more akin to contours.
How many contours you see will depend on how many colours there are in the colour scheme.
If you want to export contours from FT3 to CC3 use one of the export settings that has contours, which you can tell by the name in most cases. You can create your own export setting by hitting the Create button in that dialog and set your own contours.
In CC3 you can draw contour lines as polygons with a Hollow fill type, in whatever colour you wish. If you mean to draw a whole lot of them you might want to create your own drawing tools for them. If you are interested in how to do that just ask.