Arcing a road with John Speed City Map ('07 Annual Related)

Hey all,

Recently reinstalled my ProFantasy software (had a computer crash about a year ago and just got around to it) and I have been working on a John Speed style village map.

I was going through the tutorial and it mentions on page 3:
"The tool "Street, Polygon" is particularly handy to draw marketplaces and other open, public spaces. And if you draw a little section of road across the river and give it a slight arc, it make for a nice representation of a bridge."

First off, where is the "Street, Polygon" tool? Also, how do you "arc" a section of road? If there is a tutorial on either of these, please send me to them, I have been looking in the help file and via google and I have had zero luck figuring these out.

Thanks,

Bryan Blumklotz

Comments

  • MonsenMonsen Administrator 🖼️ 81 images Cartographer
    To find the Street, Polygon tool, simply click the All Drawing tools button in the left toolbar set. You should find the tool in this list.

    As for Arcing it, i don't know any way to do that automatically with a simple polygon, so I guess Ralf meant that you should draw it in an arc-shape manually.
  • Monsen,

    Thanks. I found the Street, Polygon tool by clicking advanced.

    I used the smooth road to arc it over the river and it looks alright. I think the effect would pop more if the rest of the road were straight, but my village is not laid out like a city, the roads are a little more "fluid."

    I will post us when I am finally done. I am learning as I go and I have had to erase and redo several sections when I have learned something new that makes it look better.

    Bryan
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