Road improvement
Can anyone offer me any suggestions on roads? The technique I am using now results in a fixed size regardless of resolution, so by the time you get to the size you see here, they are almost invisible. However, in a world view they appear visible from space! any thoughts?
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Alternatively you could try the method I did with this map a while back which is good if you want to show stone roads:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/59162065/Coast of the Fruits grid3.JPG
The effect being reached by right clicking on the roads button, then clicking advanced. It should take you to the advanced options with default road selected. From there click new and name it whatever you wish to. From there go to properties. Then from the drop-down menu select "Roof Tile 2". Finally change the colour to black. I'd also suggest adding a new sheet and adding the new road style to it by entering the name in the box at the bottom. From there go to that sheet and in the effects add one glow with the colour set to R: 136 G: 136 B: 56, set to outside mode and with a strength of 1 and a blur radius of 3. Next add a second glow, this time with the colours all at 157 the mode set to inside, with a strength of 1 and a glow of 2. Finally add a transparency effect, with the opacity set to 80.
It's also worth noting, that you can upscale the width of any road fairly easily in the properties part of the road styles by simply editing the width section to either relate to the currently selected width or, my preferred method, by editing it's size in relation to the size of the map border.