Draw an Island in a Lake
I am trying to draw an Island in the middle of a lake I made in the middle of my maps continent. At first the island would vanish as the landmass sheet is under the rivers sheet the lake is on (basically it was drawing an outline on the continents landmass). I was able to get the island to show properly in the lake by cutting and pasting it from the land sheet to the river sheet. Only thing is the Island doesnt have any sheet effects like black outline glow that both the land sheet and river sheet has. Anyone got a better way to get the island drawn so that sheet effects will work?
Also on my hand drawn map parts of the coastline are high elevations and drop off as cliffs to the sea, while the rest has normal beaches. I have a glow effect on the sheet to simulate beaches, but how do I make the areas I want to be cliffs show as such?
Also on my hand drawn map parts of the coastline are high elevations and drop off as cliffs to the sea, while the rest has normal beaches. I have a glow effect on the sheet to simulate beaches, but how do I make the areas I want to be cliffs show as such?
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For the cliffs, there are several ways. If you are using a cliff symbol, just place it a bit into the see so that it is drawn on top of the glow effect and hides this one. If you draw the cliffs using drawing tools, you can do the same, just place it on a sheet that is drawn on top of the land sheet, and extend them just enough into the sea to hide the glow beneath. You'll probably want to create a seperate sheet for this purpose, so that you can create sheet effects on it without affecting anything else.
I would like to get rid of the beige coastline where there is cliffs and learn how to change the area I want to be cliffs from a straight black line to something resembling cliffs. Boy do I feel noobish right now :-)
The first thing I now do is create an land island sheet for the lake itself. Another TTP that I always watch out for are the effects. the outside/inside glows have to be fairly small, because it will be competing with the effects from the lake and mainland. Not a serious complication, but you may need to play around with the settings to get it to look right.
Marc
This is my first day with this software, so I have some questions...starting with the ol' Island in a Lake thing.
Grrrr....cannot seem to figure it out. I've created a new Sheet...called Island.
Then, I selected the Default Terrain tool to draw my island in my lake, but after I select the terrain type, the sheet switches to LAND.
Am I using the wrong tool when I select Default Terrain tool?
Also, my lake is actually a swamp. Is there a way to change the color of the lake water to a goopy green?
Can drawn items be nudged on the map for better positioning after being drawn? Do they have to be deleted and redrawn?
Lastly, I have tree bunches that are drawn outside the frame of the map. When I complete the map, is there a way to crop anything outside the frame?
Don't use the default tool, use the drawing tools on the right side of your screen.
Hope this helps. :-)
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So if your island isn't showing up, its behind the other sheet or sheets.
Can anyone answer my questions about how to:
1) move already-placed objects?
2) changing the color of an already-placed object
3) selecting objects by symbol type?
Thanks,
-Sal90066
2. Use Change properties. Note the difference between color and fill though.
3. This is more involved. If by symbol type, you mean trees, mountains, cities, etc, you cannot do that directly, but you can often accomplish the same by selecting them by layer. If you haven't done so already, you should really read the Editing chapter in the manual, it explains a lot of way to do selections.