Making new line style?
Timeskipper
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Hi! As the title implies, I'm asking for advice on how to create a new line style. Specifically, I'm trying to create railroad paths to add to a vector black and white map, so it would be two parallel lines with perpendicular lines spaced evenly between them.
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You can't make that as an all in one line style, but you can make railroad tracks without too much trouble.
This video should be helpful.
Oh, thank you for the link. I wasn't looking to make a battlemap, but an overland map however.
While that method works for creating rails for a battlemap, I was looking to make a more stylized but easily shapeable railway line for an overland map. If it's not possible then no problem, I'll find a way.
The premise is actually very much the same as in the video even for a more stylistic approach. The only way to place the perpendicular lines along the main line is by having them as symbols, but they can be very mush simpler than the symbols in the video, basically just a symbol made up from a single line. So I recommend just following the video instructions, just make everything simpler, and skip everything about effects setup, and you probably want to put everything on the same sheet since the separation was only for the sake of the effects.
It should be possible to just put all those commands into a macro that goes into a drawing tool to make a nice tool that then draw everything for you.
Another alternative is also to use a style similar to what is found in the "Annual Modern City" style. This tool is made by combining two lines, one solid, and one slightly narrower dashed line. This is simpler than the above procedure. but might be more stylistic than you want though, depending on the style of your map.
The solid and narrower dash line method is genius. I'm absolutely trying that.
Can you point me to what the relevant video tutorials would be for creating that kind of macro?
My live stream about drawing tools is probably a good place to start. It explains many of the features with drawing tools, as well as adding macros to them.