Fill Style Questions (Rivers vs Sea)
Morrgans
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Hello you Fantastic Mappers.
I am trying to do a John Speed Version of a Colony Map in the Southlands. For that I want to hijack the Texture of CA110 for the water bodies (Rivers and Sea). Sea went smoothly. However for the River only the outline was replaced. (Probabgly because the River is "open". I want to keep the black outline and the general river behaviour (overlapping rivers/sea gets merged together), but want to fill it with the texture (like in CA110) Waht do I need to do? Screens attached.
Can I just export a drawing tool from another Annual and reimport it into a drawing? Cheers!
Olaf
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Hi Olaf :)
Please can you attach the FCW so I can see how the drawing tools are set up and what sheet everything is on?
You should be able to attach the .FCW file to a comment on this forum using the paperclip symbol at the bottom of the comment.
Aha! Note: For rivers to have a texture, use the OUTLINE definition. Reason: A river is basically a line. You need to draw two lines over one another. One is the outline of the river (that is the normal one) and the other is the interior. Now the outside (the actual river) is drawn Below the outline. To have it show up correctly you need to switch outline and interior in your head. It is the other way around than a normal polygon. Like the sea. Still with me? So if you assign a texture to the outline and the river line width is larger than the outline width than you have the correct appearance. And yes. I am currently a little "wuschig" as we say in Germany. But it works. Yeay!
You solved it yourself. That's great :)
I suspected the drawing tool setup, but couldn't be sure from a screen shot.