Default Landmass and Fractal Polygon

Althaen · December 2013

I made my terrain with fractal polygon and I like how most of it looks but want to add some bays or peninsulas. I can't do this to the polygon but can to default landmass. So I traced over the polygon with default landmass. The issue is default landmass has awful jagged fractals and it makes no difference if I use arrow keys. Can I convert the polygon to a default landmass?

Dogtag · December 2013

Yes you can! More or less. The steps below will apply the general style of the default landmass (or other) drawing tool to your polygon. However, it will not fractalize it if it isn't fractalized — nor smooth it if it isn't already smooth — but that's just what you want, right? One neat effect of this is that you can apply it to a smooth poly so you can edit it (with fractalized/non-smooth changes)!

To change your polygon so it is treated as the default landmass:

Right-click the Change Properties button .
CC3 displays a pop-up menu.
Select Change like draw tool from the pop-up menu.
The Command Line changes to read Drawtool name [dialog]: .
Right-click a blank spot on the map.
The Select drawing tool dialog box displays.
Note: The text in the square brackets, [dialog] in the Command Line, just before the colon, indicates a default value. Right-clicking accepts the default value. In this case, the default value was the appropriate dialog box. This is actually a common default and the dialog in question will vary, depending on the command. For example, moving something to a layer would open the Layers dialog instead.
Find and click the Land, Default drawing tool (or whichever drawing tool you want to make your polygon act like).
The Command Line changes to read Select entities (0 picked): and your mouse pointer now has a cursor attached to it (for selecting).
Select your polygon (or if you have several polygons, select each of them).
The Command Line indicates how many entities you've selected.
Right-click and select Do It from the pop-up menu.
Your polygon changes to match the general drawing style of the tool you selected! For example, The fill and outline of your polygon will now match the drawing tool's!

Now, you can edit your polygon just as you would a landmass that you drew with the drawing tool!
Note: You can only edit entities drawn with — or "converted" to — non-smooth polygon drawing tools.

I hope that helps,
~Dogtag

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