CC3 political boarders??
Hello all. I find myself in the extreme need of a highly detailed, nice looking map, and will be creating my first homebrew world with CC3. I am not that familiar with it yet, but I will stumble threw. Here is my issue: Is there a good way to show on map the political borders? you know, to divide the land mass into "Kingdoms". I tried to use the red border to do it, but it only does stright lines so the map ends up looking blocky. Thanks for any help you can give me.
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You can also have a look at the 2007 Annual. The Mercator style borders are nice, depending on the style of your map.
Select what you want to do first, then the object you want to do it to. The opposite of most paint programs. But then CC3 uses a CAD engine.
CC3 has a Political Borders layer and sheet, so it's best to have both of those selected when drawing your borders. That way, you can do your map without the borders and can hide and/or show them as an overlay.
I used the freehand drawing tool and just drew my borders in, selecting a different color for each border. I also applied a white glow to the sheet, with a strength of 1 (or 2, I forget, but more than 2 will just give you white glowing lines and wash out the color unless you make the lines really thick), and a blur of 5.
You might want to play with line thickness and the glow effect, but it's that simple to get a really nice-looking border that stands out. Just make sure your borders are on the Political Border layer AND sheet. You can also freeze all the other layers while drawing and changing your borders so you don't mess up the map itself.
Hope that helps!
The Tome of Ultimate Mapping describes one way of doing this (The old CC2 way, before effects were possible), while the January 2007 annual describes another way, using effects
edit: sorry, I am tired and I didn't realize I had already posted this.