New user questions
New user who has just purchased CC3 and CD3 for use in creating D&D maps.
One question:
I really like the "Bitmap A" format, but after creating the walls and buildings for my first city, I can't find any vegetation or towers that match the style. What symbol catalog should I be looking in?
One question:
I really like the "Bitmap A" format, but after creating the walls and buildings for my first city, I can't find any vegetation or towers that match the style. What symbol catalog should I be looking in?
Comments
All the map there look like they use the indexation process described in the CD3 Essentials document (page 23+) that is in the CD3\Documents folder.
Is that what you mean ? That's the way I do it usually.
From the look of it, legend has been added with a picture editor (I seem to remember you mentionned using one). Maybe photoshop ?
Labeling can be done in CC3/CD3 but the text doesn't always come out great (presumably because there is no anti-aliasing).
Ok i need to ask a question but i can't even post a section of map to show people my problem.
Some were in that little spec is my question.
Please help so i can point out the problem and ask my next question.
that's a nice map. What's the trouble ? The green flake or the scale ?
BTW you might have created a new discussion... It's not realy related to above...
Now if you only want to work on the drawn part, hide MAP BORDER, BACKGROUND and TEMPLATE layers.
What is bugging you might be the points at 0,0 from the template LAYER. They are there to ensure usual sheets are created on the map.
Now if it's the whole extend of you map, you might consider scaling either border, background and template or your map (the latter will change the units though...)
Behind that little green dot is a road, town and a castle. I want to send that little green dot to the back of those items bit the tools to do it, SEND BEHIND or SEND TO BACK wont do it for me. Could you please tell me how to do it.
However, I noticed all those symbols, including the green dot was all on the "RIVERS" sheet. A much better option is to place stuff on the appropriate sheet, as the sheet drawing order make sure that everything ends up correctly above/below stuff if placed on an appropriate sheet.
In this case, if you move the green spot to the "Land Features" sheet in your drawing, and then do a redraw, you'll see that it will instantly move below the other symbols. The rest of them, the road and buildings should be moved to the ROADS and SYMBOLS sheet respectively as well.
Ive named a sheet farms. This is the sheet that i can't send to the back of the rivers, towns and roads sheet. is there an area that you have to edit the sheet preferences to allow it to be manipulated and sent to the back of other sheets?
In the sheet manager, the last sheet is always over all other sheet, ie the more you go down in sheet listing, the less hidden it is.
Thus to put a sheet under another, you must move it UP in the sheet manager. Any sheet excepted common can be moved.
Be sure to use sheets and not layers, eh?
As Monsen said, almost all you entities are located on the RIVERS sheet but are assigned to the right layers. Layers organisation has no graphic consequence (except if you hide them).
and the sheets are spread over a large listing its just that i did a copy of my map to a better (I thought ) View:)
I usually use different sheets to clarify and assign different effects.
For example, I would not put farms on a different sheet than other buildings unless I need it at creation level. Even then, I'll clear that by putting everything on the same sheet afterwards.
What you could do is create a TEMP sheet to work on and move everything once each step is done.
ie put farms on the TEMP and move then on the SYMBOLS,BUILDINGS once you're happy with the farms.
I hope I'm clear enough...
"ChkData DAV has no pending DRQ"
"SELREST"
Can anyone help please?
If you find that your selection mode is now completely off (for example if you cannot select individual items for commands any more), then just type SELBYD on the command line (Make sure you are not in the middle of a command), then hit enter to set the selection mode to normal. (Also settable through Tools -> Options -> Select Method -> Dialog or popup
For more troubleshooting, we'll need to know what you were doing to cause this error to pop up.
And for the experts cant u please activate the sheets and effects to see if ive done it right??
On the symbols sheet, you have a blur and a transparency effect.
Either you move the mountains on the symbols sheet (hide all LAYERS (not sheet) except mineral/moutains to better select them) or you apply said effects on the land sheet if you have nothing else than the mountains on that sheet).
Edit : I see that the effects have disappeared from your symbols sheet...
You can open another CC3 instance, create a new map based on the Pete Fenlon style and note the effects applied to recreate them.
Alternatively, if you want all the tree symbols to go on your own "Tree" sheet, you can do the following: Open Symbols > Symbol Manager, select all the tree symbols (use shift-click to select more than one), click "Options", and change the sheet name they go on from SYMBOLS* to TREES*. Voila, using the default drawing tool will place all of them on your custom sheet.
Hope that helps.