glows aren’t working on all symbols on same sheet
HelenAA
🖼️ 19 images Mapmaker
the title says it all. Every symbol in the screenshot is on the same sheet, BUILDINGS, but some aren’t responding to the effects. A couple are grouped symbols, but many are ungrouped. How come?
I’m uploading both the .jpg and .fcw.
Ps I know the shaddows are horrible!
Comments
Some of your buildings are on the buildings sheet, but a lot of them are on the SYMBOLS sheet instead. Looks like all the ones not casting shadows in your image is on the SYMBOLS sheet.
The best tool to check this is always the LIST command. It reveals all the needed information.
before I posted, i did MPEDIT on all the symbols, Remy! And then LIST on the ones not showing!!
MPEDIT doesn't show the current properties of entities. It always shows the currently active properties from the status bar, basically, it shows the settings that will be applied, not the current setting of the entities.
(And also note that MPEDIT only applies the settings when hitting OK if the checkbox for that setting its set)
A different way to check things is also just to hide the relevant sheet. Expecting everything to be on BUILDINGS?, well, then simply hide that sheet and see if anything remain (Or hide all sheets but that one, which is a nice feature int he sheets dialog I like to use)
Hiding all sheets but one is also nice when working, because that means you can do selection "by all" to grab all the relevant entities instead of trying to select the relevant ones individually