Hollow shapes - Marshes in Ferraris example
Hello,
I'm trying to replicate a marsh from the Ferraris example in my map, and still learning my ropes trying doing so. I looked at the example and saw the pastures and marsh mud are hollow shapes.
How do you do an hollow shape? I try to lookup for some boolean operations, but have not yet found the how to?
I see the shapes perfectly one within another, so were they basically subtracted one from the other?
Thanks for any guidance,
Claude
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Which example map are you using?
The Ferraris one, CA158 The Village of Greythorne
The Ferraris Style isn't the simplest one I ever made, so it does take a bit of working out if you are trying to learn from the example map.
Here is the map with just two sheets showing - BACKGROUND, and WATER.
And here is the same view showing the TERRAIN salt marsh 1 and 2 sheets, without the water.
It is a very long time ago (for my memory) since I drew this map, but I believe the water was drawn first using the River, Default straight drawing tool.
Then the mud was drawn around the rim of that water using the Terrain Default, Mud drawing tool. (I've drawn a quick example to the right of the actual marsh)
Then the islands were drawn last, using the Terrain Default, marsh island drawing tool.
So there are 3 drawing tools involved in creating this marsh area with it's muddy banks and marshy islands. There aren't any multipolies involved. I try to avoid them at all costs - even in the more advanced styles I make. The appearance of holes might be due to the fact that you need to refresh the view? I don't know why it gave you that impression.
Excellent, thanks so much. Going to read all that slowly :)
Claude
Actually it's just I see a hole in the pasture around the marsh area, and even after redraw it stays around. So it looked like a hole.
Anyway I was making my life complicated, I just created a dup of the Terrain Sheet and moved it up so that the marsh draws above it...
Having had a second look at that, Claude, I think I must have used the trace option while drawing it. All drawing tools have a "T" option. If you check the command line after making the first click of drawing a shape you will see it. So I traced the edge of the water.