Political Borders - How to do it?
Mateus090985
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Dear forum friends,
To finish one of my maps I just need to draw some politial borders but I am a little lost in how to do it.
I use an edge fade to make it trnasparent in the interior right? But how to made it follow the borders that I want? Especially coast lines?
To finish one of my maps I just need to draw some politial borders but I am a little lost in how to do it.
I use an edge fade to make it trnasparent in the interior right? But how to made it follow the borders that I want? Especially coast lines?
Comments
follow coastlines, rivers etc
If you have fractalised coastlines it will be very difficult, very slow or even impossible to trace these.
But if its merely slow , you can try to subdivide a continent in 2/3 parts and create further borders within these.
Also try to use 5/6 colors max
If that doesn't work for you, copy the entity you want to trace to a temporary layer and roughly cut out the peice you want to trace. Use trim to make it fit exactly, then either trace this or use "combine paths" to add it to another border path.
It is too much fractalizated =(. If did not have too much love for the amount of work that I put on some earlier maps I would redraw them to be more consistent with the detail level, but I probably canot recreat the same landmasses. It is sad =(.
I will have to finish the wolrd map without regional divisions marked.
By right clicking on change properties and then click "change like draw tool" you can fix the lines of the continents back to the landmass.
So trace the coast, stop trace, trace mountains, etc.
When you "pause" your trace, the dialog should say next point, etc. Just select trace again and pick new object.
I usually draw a small segment between the two to make it easier before selecting the next trace object.
Its easiest if you hide objects you dont want to trace or need while doing borders to speed up things.
If you want to show provinces + country borders. You can simply make a new drawtool and change line width of border. Then adding glow to the line to show a color on the outside for which country it is and on the inside what province it is using edge fade
I use 20% opacity (Edge fade) + 75% transparency for borders
The use to the word Trace - is this a separate command and if so where is it, or is it simply referring to using another command to trace the nodes of an existing coastline?
When i tried myself to do this I discovered a Political Border line command which apparently is what I was looking for. Is this a new tool or something separate? It seems to work ok with a little jiggering (it tries to tie itself to vertices or nodes when trying to go to midpoint of another border line, for instance).