Hello. This is my first community atlas attempt. I think I'm supposed to request a reservation here.

I'd like to work on the lake and confluence between Erelenil and Duin Elisyr. Thank you.

Hello. Let me share a lesson that I just learned. I had a problem with transparency acne, and it took me a while to solve. I had an inner fade effect on a sheet, above a bitmap background. The background was green grass, and the poly above it was black so as to suggest a dome-like shape. Of course, the top poly had acne. Nothing new here. So, I made a liner sheet in between that was a copy of the top sheet with the acne. I used an RGB Matrix effect to make the line sheet bright red. I thought this should have solved the problem, as I've *done this before.* At least I thought so...

Here is a shot of the liner and background sheets with no sheet effects:

There's a black poly with red RGB Matrix on top of a greed bitmap background. I have the actual top layer hidden for this discussion. When I turned on the inner fade, I got this:

Yikes! Why would a *red* layer cause acne on top of a *green* background? Any guesses?

Solution: The RGB Matrix effect did *not* help the acne. The acne was caused by the intrinsic color of the poly, not the computed color after the RGB Matrix effect. In other words, even though the poly looked red to me, the edge fade still took it to be black when it came to acne.

I changed the poly to be explicitly red, and I removed the RGB Matrix effect. Drumroll....

The lesson that I learned: Transparency Acne relates to the color of the top layer without any effects applied to it. Don't use an RGB Matrix effect to shortcut a change to the poly color.

I learned a lesson here. Maybe it was just "Dumb Cartographer Day," and I needed to drink more coffee. Either way, I hope this helps somebody someday!

I'm sorry Monsen. I mistook that link for the PDF. That's exactly what I needed. Thank you!

(You're the best. You, Ralf, Sue, and all the others are truly enjoyable to communicate with.)

Welcome from right down the road. I've done a map or two of my local area, but I'd like to do more in NC. Maybe we could collaborate. Have fun!

Here's the map file. I can't find the official way to submit it, aside from tagging @Monsen here. Is this sufficient? Thanks.

Oh dear. Wow. The "Direct Download" from Humble Bundle is markedly different from the ProFantasy web site. I never used the HB direct links, so I didn't see what you saw. I very strongly suggest that you copy your HB keys and paste them into your Registration -> Downloads page, and then download the installers from there. I'm not sure if they just renamed the installers or if anything else changed. I personally wouldn't trust a download from anywhere but ProFantasy.

The ProFantasy route also has the benefit of always being there if you forget your keys, lose the installer, lose the SM PDF, or want an update.

Have you tried JPG? I understand the thought that it's not perfect, but with the right settings I find that it works very well. Try different compression levels. I think that might be something worth looking at.

Good luck.

For me it's Blender and GIMP. I've done some 3D renders with Blender, and I love it. It gets complaints about the UI, but after watching a video or two, it's great, just like CC3. Same with GIMP. I've used them all, and once I got used to the UI, I can't complain.

Take care.

I want to try this!

That worked. I never noticed that on the left. Thanks!

Beautiful, Ralf. Do you have any advice on internationalization of a map? It would be nice to hit a button and change the language used, as in a string table in some software.