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Insert Building style issues

AternoxAternox
in Mapping with ProFantasy's Software
So it's been a while since I used CC3 and I find myself learning it all over again. :) So I'm having a little trouble house settings when I use the Insert Building feature. When I created the map, I selected the City Streets style from the 2016 (CA117) Annual but later decided that I preferred the City Designer 3 Bitmap A style. Here's the issue.. Even though I went to Drawing Properties and attached that style, when I launch the Insert Building menu, all the CD3 A buildings look horrible... The CA117 buildings look great. What gives?
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  • MonsenMonsen Administrator 🖼️ 81 images Cartographer
    A CA117 map doesn't contain the fill styles used by the CD3 Bitmap A houses by default. You can add them by using Draw -> Insert file and insert a Bitmap A style map into your map, and then immediately undoing (Edit -> Undo) this. That will remove them inserted map, but leave the fill style definitions behind.
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  • AternoxAternox
    Thank you, Monsen. So I just insert some existing sample map image using CD3 Bitmap A and then promptly undo it?

    I'm perplexed what the attach style feature in the Drawing Properties does.. It doesn't seem to have any impact on my map.
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  • MonsenMonsen Administrator 🖼️ 81 images Cartographer
    Posted By: Aternoxmap image
    Not a map image, an actual map in that style.

    The style you select in the drawing properties is just what tools CC3 will offer for that map by default. Normally, it should never be changed (Because most other styles won't work with the current map)
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  • AternoxAternox
    Thanks Monsen. Since I was still learning, I ended up just recreating the map from scratch, but this is good to know for next time.

    On a side note, I'm having another challenge with the Insert Building feature. I'm making a city map based on a hand drawing from a friend with the CD3A style and I really like the look of the building symbols and have used it for half of the buildings in my map. Then I got to a hand-drawn building that doesn't really match any of the symbols that well and I'm forced to use the Insert Building feature. I was thinking that it would create the same look as the symbols but it doesn't. The symbols look really nice with shading and shadowing. The Insert Buildings feature creates a weak facsimile of the same building and it sticks out like a sore thumb. Is this working as designed? If so, I'm really bummed because this city was just starting to look great.
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  • JimPJimP 🖼️ 280 images Cartographer
    If you have the color 15, white, selected and you pick a vari-color house, it will be a pale house. Is this what happened ?

    Otherwise I cannot thnik of a reason for it.
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  • MonsenMonsen Administrator 🖼️ 81 images Cartographer
    The House tool houses should look pretty similar to the symbols. They will never be quite a good, because they have to be drawn using polygons and fill styles, but they are pretty close. And they definitely have shading, just like the symbol houses. Which house and symbol style and type are you using?
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  • AternoxAternox
    JimP was spot on.. though Monsen, is correct. Though the tool houses are not quite as good, they blend in well enough.

    Thanks, guys!
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  • JimPJimP 🖼️ 280 images Cartographer
    edited November 2016
    Gosh, I got one correct this time !

    ( Its been a rough week for me.)
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