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Changing Map Style

Kalex the OmenKalex the Omen
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I have a FT3 imported region that looks like this. I want to convert the landmass to the Jon Roberts Overland mapping style (keeping the rivers if possible), and convert the ocean after that. I tried doing Ctrl-C, right clicking Change Properties, selecting Change Like Draw Tool, right clicking and selecting the Jon Roberts style and Land, Default (which is dark blue for some reason), selecting the landmass, right clicking and selecting Do It. The result is a dark blue landmass. Not quite what I am looking for. Am I doing this correctly, or is there a different procedure I should be using?

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  • RalfRalf Administrator, ProFantasy 🖼️ 18 images Mapmaker
    You first need the Jon Roberts bitmap fills in the map, before you can change the look. I would go about it the following way:

    1. Measure your continent (Info > Distance) east-west and north-south and note the size
    2. Open a second instance of CC3 and create a new map, based on the Jon Roberts style, with these dimensions.
    3. Return to you FT3 export and make sure to set the sheet to "Common".
    4. Use ctrl-c and select your continent and the rivers. Right-click, Do It and accept the default 0,0 as the point of origin.
    5. Go your your new, empty map and paste the clipboard into it (ctrl-v), typing in 0,0 for the insertion point.

    The FT3 export is now in your Jon Roberts map.

    6. Now right-click the Change Properties button and choose Change Like Drawing Tool. Choose the "Land, Default" tool
    7. Select your landmass (and all islands) and Do It.
    8. Do the same with the rivers and the "River, Default" tool.

    Your map is now in the Jon Roberts style.
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  • Kalex the OmenKalex the Omen
    Okay, I tried this and I for some reason my measurements didn't seem to work in the final map. The copied landmass didn't exactly fill the map space as I intended. I noted that there is an invisible (white) map border in the original export from FT3. Should I be including that in my measurements, and if so how can I make it visible. Or is there a way to get rid of it?
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  • Kalex the OmenKalex the Omen
    I think I figured it out. Apparently either CC3, or Windows 8 is too smart for its own good. When using a dual monitor system and copy/pasting from different sized monitors the size of the clipboard contents changes (or stays constant...can't decide which).
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  • Kalex the OmenKalex the Omen
    New wrinkle. When I do step 7, I get the following message (which oddly says CC2). When I click Yes CC3 crashes. Any way I can keep this from happening?
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