World Scale To Regional Scale
Sheelon
Newcomer
Hi guys
Fed up with trying again to go from world scale map, or even a portion of this size (last attempt was 3000 x 3000) and zoom down to regional scale level, eg a 500 x 500 map of the northeast of this large map. I've done two things: use the world scale map to place umpteen features on the big map, then zoomed in to use the result as a regional map. This obviously is VERY time consuming and I must admit I'm never really happy with the final scale of the map, the features looking ok on one never looking quite right on the other.
Other method is attempting to figure out exactly where the borders, landmass/sea and features will lie on the zoomed in map and then redrawing it at a zoomed in level, but again I'm never happy with the continuity between the two.
Has anyone got any other methods to share for doing this laborious task or am I setting my sights too high to produce this? I love doing a large world map as background to a campaign if for nothing else than to supply flavour and history for the region.
Any thoughts?
Apologies: Using CC3, don't have and not getting FT.
Sheelon
Fed up with trying again to go from world scale map, or even a portion of this size (last attempt was 3000 x 3000) and zoom down to regional scale level, eg a 500 x 500 map of the northeast of this large map. I've done two things: use the world scale map to place umpteen features on the big map, then zoomed in to use the result as a regional map. This obviously is VERY time consuming and I must admit I'm never really happy with the final scale of the map, the features looking ok on one never looking quite right on the other.
Other method is attempting to figure out exactly where the borders, landmass/sea and features will lie on the zoomed in map and then redrawing it at a zoomed in level, but again I'm never happy with the continuity between the two.
Has anyone got any other methods to share for doing this laborious task or am I setting my sights too high to produce this? I love doing a large world map as background to a campaign if for nothing else than to supply flavour and history for the region.
Any thoughts?
Apologies: Using CC3, don't have and not getting FT.
Sheelon
Comments
Check out the 'Editing with Drawing Tools' section in the Editing chapter in the manual, it is basically an example of this.
I find again that I'm back to drawing an enormous map and using the zoom commands to close in and draw small features which turn out to be minute on the Zoomed Out map. It does work but its certainly not an ideal solution.
As a suggestion for a possible future feature (I don't know if this following is even doable) might it be possible to draw a text box style frame and lift everything within to emplace it in a further map at a different scale? I can live with deleting features as its part and parcel of map creation and we're all used to that.
Going to have a look at the annual too.
When selecting an area to detail, use the grid to make the selection a fraction of your world map size that translates back to the original size when you create the regional map. So if your world map is 1000 miles x 800 miles then make your selection 100 miles x 80 miles, or 10 miles x 8 miles, etc.
Then open a new map and create a BITMAP sheet and layer, and move the BITMAP sheet to just above the Common sheet. Make sure you've selected both the BITMAP sheet and layer, then use the Draw menu to insert a file using the .png you exported from the larger map. when the placing tool appears just align the crosshairs in the top left-hand corner of your new map and drag the .png to fill the new map. Then hide the BACKGROUND layer and draw your new map using the inserted .png as a guide.
you have to draw a completely new map every time you create a more detailed area, but if you keep the grid as a guide, all your distances will translate perfectly from one map to the next.
You'll have to post your results, and let us know how you eventually did it.
Good luck!
DMG
Many thanks to all for the advice and time!
EDIT FOR CC3 ACTION: Got a quick hour to try this out, and now the problem I seem to be running into is exporting the 1k x 1k section of the 3k x 3k map. It seems no-matter how I tackle it I end up lifting the entire map plus borders from the original and placing it into the smaller scale regional map.
@JimP:
I tried your link, and from there clicked the large map to small map link, but from the resulting 'entrance page' of that tutorial, I was unable to find any links to the rest of the tutorial.
Original 3k x 3k map
Final map, 1k x 1k, set to be traced on as necessary.
Many thanks for your help. With hindsight its a doddle!