Starting with no sheets
kevbeck43
🖼️ 13 images Surveyor
I have found that when I make certain maps, like wilderness or even city maps that removing all of the premade sheets and adding my own as I build the map has given me more control over the process for some reason. Is there a way to start a map in any style and specify you want only the background and map border sheets? It just seems like I have more control when I create the sheet from scratch, apply it to a layer and all of that. It also helps with my organization in a big way as many times I don't use all the sheets a style provides.
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I was worried that I'd somehow missed a major point about layers and sheets.
I'm afraid the layers in my maps are usually quite a horrible mess, since I don't tend to notice which layer I'm putting things on. I will try to make sure that I do something about that for the FCW of my Community Project city map, so that it makes sense to people who use layers a lot more than I do
Kevbeck - don't worry - I get the layers thing a bit confused in my head a lot of the time - with a few brief flashes of understanding thrown in now and then! LOL!
One beauty of layers is that they can group/organize entities across multiple sheets. So you can have, for example, a VEGETATION layer, with all your tree, bush, shrub, and other plant symbols. This lets you put trees on a TREES sheet with a long shadow effect, while also having bushes on a BUSHES sheet (or whatever) with a smaller shadow. But you can still easily select or hide all of these vegetation symbols simply by selecting or hiding the layer, no matter what sheet they're on.
The same idea works in reverse, too. You can put all your buildings on a BUILDINGS sheet while also sorting them into different layers. This is used extensively in City Designer. So you can keep them all on the same BUILDINGS sheet but easily show or hide — or select — different building layers, such as BUILDINGS INNS, or BUILDINGS HOUSES, or BUILDINGS GUILDS, etc.
That's just one example. Also, you can freeze a layer to prevent yourself from accidentally editing or deleting things on the layer.
That is just how I think about the relationship. It might not be actually how its programmed. It just works for me to think about that way.
Monsen, I was able to make the template and I can click on it fine from within the template/dungeon folder but it won't come up as an option in the wizard. Are there specific sheets that you cannot delete for it to work in the wizard. Plus I made a template from an annual style. Could that be the reason. I guess I don't need to have it in the wizard since the template does work but it would be nice.