Contour Shapes Not Blending Into Eachother
I've been able to make some progress with my first map, but now I find myself stuck again. When I put contour shapes in behind the mountains and forests, they blend nicely into the land but not into each other, as you can see in the picture. I've tried to figure it out to myself to no avail. Can anyone figure out what I'm doing wrong this time...? <:S
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Sheet effects apply on the whole sheet but not on every entity on the sheet. It means that all the shapes on the same sheet are considered as a single entity.
A lot of sheet effects, like edge fade, glow, bevel... affect the global edges so if you draw, say, a circle and draw a small circle inside the first, the second one won't be affected at all (or marginally at the best).
I don't know if I'm clear enough, but to make it short, draw your shapes on two different sheets.
Also consider that sometimes effects are a bit deaf to the Apply Sheet Effect command, especially when you show hidden sheets or add entities. Don't hesitate to activate them twice ou thrice in a row...
Thanks for your advice too, JimP, but I'm afraid I couldn't make out much of it because I'm so new at this. <;) I don't get a lot of the terminology you're using. Learning this program reminds me of what it was like to learn Adobe Photoshop in a foreign language when I was in my early teens! Ha ha.
On the left side of CC3 are 3 buttons with the names I gave above. I used them to move the outside edge of the polygons I draw, to better fit what I want it to look like.
The Fractalize is a button on the left side of CC3 you can use to roughen the edge of a polygon so it looks more like terrain instead of a blob of color.
If that is still confusing, it will become clear with time as you learn the program. This program does have a steep learning curve. The tutorials are a good thing to go through.
Sigh. I found some link glitches on my Crestar site, working through finding and fixing all of them.