My Question
When I create contour lines or add a glow effect, when I save it, close down the programme, then restart it, it doesn't save. I've clicked the 'Activate Sheets' and saved it but nothing seems to work. I have to keep selecting 'Activate Sheets' every time I restart the programme.
Comments
But you can change that for your map. Click the "Display Speed" button on the left toolbar (the hourglass icon) and check the Option "Effects are on when loaded". Close the dialog and save the map. This is a per-map setting, so you can set it individually.
Also, I draw in my rivers, say about five, then go on to add other effects, perhaps contour lines and glow on mountains or forests. I'll save it only to find some of my rivers have dissapered.
Try hiding sheets that contain entities that might hide your rivers (such as sea sheets, land sheets and background sheets), and see if you can find them. You may need to hide sheets one by one while looking. Once you find the rivers, use the LIST command on them to check which sheet they are on.
Of course, fading and transparency effects can also cause rivers to go invisible if the effect is too large compared to the river width, so always try to turn off effects again as well. If it looks like the wrong effects is being applied to the rivers (thereby hiding them), that is also usually a result of the river being on the wrong sheet (again, LIST is your friend)
Thank you