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Not sure what to call this topic - Crossover tool use?

dfmoss65dfmoss65
in Mapping with ProFantasy's Software
Is there any way to get tools from an overland mapping style to work in a city map?

Specifically, I want to use the forest fill tool from Jon Roberts Overland style in a map of a city. My map is large and shows a fair amount of territory outside the actual city walls and I want to use the tool I mentioned to make forests.

I tried to figure out the Fill with Symbols tool (under Drawing menu) but have not a clue how to make it work. It would be a good item for a tutorial! LOL

Thanks,

Don
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  • mosswood17mosswood17
    I think that if you start your city in an overland map template that the city designer tools still work. Pick the drawing tools you really need and go with that template, but I just checked and CD3 drawing tools work fine in overland templates.
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  • dfmoss65dfmoss65
    Thanks! I will give that a try.

    Don
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  • MonsenMonsen Administrator 🖼️ 81 images Cartographer
    Note that the top reasons for why drawing tools from one style doesn't work with another is:
    1. Sheets and sheet order. Drawing tools usually use predetermined sheets. If the sheet doesn't exist in the drawing, it will be created, but will be placed at the bottom of the sheet list, meaning it can end up overlapping stuff it is supposed to go under. Easily fixed my manually changing sheet order after using the tool for the first time.
    2. Fill styles. Fill style references are stored in the template, and most templates doesn't contain fill styles needed for different styles. Easily fixed by creating a new (empty) map in the style the tool belong, then opening the map where you wish to use this tool, use Draw -> Insert File to insert the new map you created, then immediately do Edit -> Undo after placing the object. This removes the map you just inserted (since you don't really want it inside your other map), but leaves the fill styles behind for the drawing tools to use.
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  • SkidAceSkidAce Traveler
    I did what Monsen described above, and it worked. But it messed up my fills that I had customized that were already in the doc.

    Maybe it overwrote the changes I had made with the tools I "inserted"?
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  • MonsenMonsen Administrator 🖼️ 81 images Cartographer
    They shouldn't. I just did a test to confirm it, and if a fill style of the same name already exists in the map, it will keep the existing fill styles. Only fill styles that don't exist in the map will be imported.
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  • SkidAceSkidAce Traveler
    I'll see if I can figure it out.
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  • SkidAceSkidAce Traveler
    Here are the screenshots...before I inserted a file, and then after.

    I hit undelete to remove the file, it goes away fine but all my customized for scale fills get blurry.

    /shrug
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  • SkidAceSkidAce Traveler
    Oops, sorry about picture size.
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  • SkidAceSkidAce Traveler
    It appears to be changing the bitmap tile size to very low. If I go into the fill style dialog and "find" the bitmap and change it back to high, it looks fine. Weird.


    Don't spend a lot of time thinking about it. Probably something unique on my end.
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