Inland Seas that match (same sheet as ocean)
I recently upgraded to CC3 from 2. The improvements are incredible. On to topic: I am creating a rather large continent map and want to "cut out" a few inland seas so you can "see through" to the Ocean bottom sheet/layer. Is there a way to "cut out" large areas of land so the effects I places on the land sheet (glows, etc) take effect there too?
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Multipolies have some issues however, like reduced editing functionality, so you may also wish to consider making a separate sheet for these inland lakes (unless you can use the existing riverslake one), and duplicate the effects from the ocean sheet on it, and simply using a drawing tool (create a new one if desired) to draw the lakes on this sheet.
Both these options work, and both have their issues, so pick the one that works best for you and your map.
The first thing I tried was a seperate sheet for the inland seas (will be different than lakes. Lakes and rivers will go on the lakes/rivers sheet). But for some reason appling the effects of the land sheet on the new Inner Seas sheet except inward instead of outwards, looked different. Same effects. Same modifiers to those effects except clicked inwards instead of out and they look really different. That is when I started exploring an option to simply "cut" the seas and have the effects already in place take effect.
Thanks again.
Anyone know of a link to detailed Multipoly instructions?
ocean
land
lakes
Just click on the multipoly icon right side of CC3 and draw a shape.
Drawing an ocean fill or a solid color, depends on what you select.
To draw a multipoly that has an ocean bitmap fill.
1) click on FS, the fill style, upper right.
2) click on bitmap fills.
3) select a bitmap fill the same color as the ocean.
4) click okay.
5) draw the multipoly, or a poly.
The list of bitmap fills you will find when you scroll down in 3) above will vary depending on which template you use.