Issue with House Color Bleeding
Kevin Edwards
Newcomer
I've been running through my first real city using the CD3 program, and have run into the bug that was mentioned in the July 27, 2020 article that states:
"When placing houses – either via Random Street or the House drawing tool – try to select a neutral color in the Color Picker. There is currently a bug where sometimes the selected color bleeds through the edges of the house. It is possible to change this later with Edit Properties but then you need to be sure it’s the same color as the house’s Roof Ridge – otherwise changing the color will change the Roof Ridge color too."
I keep having the houses show up as solid polygons with the selected color. Below the houses are using the same street and house settings, but the multicolored ones are from before the bug occurred and the magenta are afterwards:
Is there anything I can do to fix this, and avoid it from happening in the future?
Comments
Looks like one of the city layers have been hidden. Try City menu -> Layers -> All BLDNGs with Shading
Thanks for getting back to me! When I do this a bunch of error messages come up about layers that are not included: "There is no layer with this name: BLDNG (CRIMINAL)" and others. However, then I do this on a new drawing the error doesn't pop up. I'm not sure how I had removed the layers, but is there a way to re-insert them?
As an update, I was able to address this. I was able to add in all the layers, but also select one of the building layers to use. For some some reason it kept selecting the "MERGE" layer, and that seems to be what was causing the issue. Thank you again for your help! I'm unsure how I had happened to delete these layers.
If it keeps going to the Merge layer, it means it wants to put something on a layer it cannot find.
I did a 'remove layers not in use' on my years ago maps. Now that I have done some new work on therm, I have to add layers back in.
Awesome. Thanks for that info. I'd always rather troubleshoot things than bother someone else.
Be very careful of doing anything with the MERGE Layer, as that seems to help control many (possibly all, I haven't done exhaustive tests!) of the Sheet Effects. If you hide the MERGE Layer, you'll find that all the Effects stop working.