CC3 and Lakes
I just bought and installed the CC3 software and have gone through the turorials. The question I have is how do you create lakes on your land masses. I put a polygon on but can not get it to fill with a lake looking color. I would also like to put islands on these lakes once I learn how to create lakes. Thanks
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The sheets are in the order they are drawn.
Sea drawn first, then sea contours, then land.
So add a new sheet called lake, and another one called isalands. Use the move up and move down buttons so they resemble this order.
Sea
Land
lake
islands
Draw the ocean/sea on the Sea sheet using the polygons con the right side of CC3.
Draw the land on the land sheet.
Draw the lake on the lake sheet.
Draw the lake islands on the islands sheet.
Top sheet is drawn first, putting on the bottom of the map.
Bottom most sheet in the lsit is drawn last, putting it on the top of the map.
Does that help ?
Islands are slightly more tricky, since if you draw them with the normal landmass tool, they will end up at the same sheet as the landmass, beneath the lake. The simple way of handling this is to create a new sheet named LAND ISLAND, and position it after RIVERS in the sheet list. Then edit the land drawing tool, enter the properties box, and change the sheet from LAND to LAND*. This wil change the behavoiour slighly, so that instead of always drawing on the LAND sheet with this tool, if your current sheet starts with the name LAND, it will draw on the current sheet. Otherwise it will still change to the LAND sheet when activating the tool. Now, all you have to do to draw an island on top of the lake, is to make sure that you have set LAND ISLAND as your current sheet before staring the tool.
If you don't want to change the original tool, you can also create a copy of it instead, naming the copy something like Land, Inland Island, and then change the sheet of this new copy to always draw on the LAND ISLAND sheet.
Edit: Seems like JimP beats me to the post. Anyway, I'll let mine be since it contains some different tips. End result is the same though.
The lake and island have to be drawn separate on differnet sheets. I have a number of such lakes with islands, or bays with islands, on my Crestar web site.
just thought i'd bump this little gem of info, as i'm a pretty new user and was at my wits end with the fact that my lake fill kept disappearing and i couldn't get it back, no matter what i tried (think reinstalls, patches, compatibility tests etc) and all i had to do was reset the line width to zero... doh!!!
thanks for this... this programme is gonna take a bit of getting used to but if i can master photoshop then this will not beat me! :-)