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  • Birdseye Continental - style development thread

  • Jim Pierce 1947 - 2024

    Oh no, I am so sorry to hear that. Thank you for staying in touch with his family sharing the news with us. I first started becoming active here a year ago, and Jim was always one of the first to reply and give me feedback and encouragement. Such a kind cartographer. I will miss him.

    WyvernMuktosar
  • Invasion of the Pod People

    Wanted to try out the new Mike Schley cartouche/decorative border symbols, and decided to tweak an existing map rather than create a new one. Really love the new compass rose options.

    While I was in there, I deleted the jungle fill in the southwest corner as well as the northwestern edge of the northern island, and replaced them with individual jungle trees.


    LoopysueQuenten
  • Creating a Raster Set dimensions.

    Remy did a two part video tutorial about this several years ago own his own channel if you want a bit more: Part 1 and Part 2.

    Loopysue
  • ALPHA BLUR question

    Makes sense. It occurs to me that I would probably want to keep them as separate cutout tools anyway. Sometimes I would want to cut through the wall to the sill, and sometimes wall to floor, and sometimes sill to floor, so that would be a lot of tools to create. Simpler to have one wall-to-sill tool and another sill-to-floor tool (unless I figure out effects that prevent the transparency acne without needing a mask, so I then I can just have wall-to-sill and wall+sill-to-floor tools).


    LoopysueKertDawg
  • Birdseye Continental - style development thread

    EDIT: Shortly after I started reading the link Joe gave above, I realised that the names of things also vary between two countries that share a common language. What I know in the UK as a watershed is known as a divide in the US.

    Hence the old expression, "The British and the Americans are two great peoples divided by a common tongue."

    Loopysue
  • Corrupted Template

    There are days where i really need to flush my brain cells a little.

    We all have those days! At least, I know I do. Fortunately, the staff and community here are incredibly helpful.

    Don Anderson Jr.Dargurd
  • [WIP] The Old San Francisco Mint (Dracula Dossier)

    Ahhh, ok. Not sure when I will get to creating the library layout, but if you're interested, I can email you the photographs of the blueprints from a book the librarian allowed me to photograph. They are in the public domain now in part because of their age but mainly because they're government documents (in the U.S., all government documents are public domain, though classified docs can still be restricted).

    Don Anderson Jr.
  • Top down campfire?

    Yeah, I agree. The last map where I needed a campfire was designed in Marine Dungeons. I found that in order to keep with the style of Marine Dungeons, it was easier to make my own campfire using the dry rocks from Marine Dungeons and the fire, scorched earth, and burnt wood from Darklands City -- both designed by Sue in complimentary styles. I have a tendency to mix and match from styles that don't always work well together, so sometimes I have to make an effort to rein myself in. Having the scorched earth fill available was handy, but another option would be to use a dark gray earth and then use sheet effects to darken it (or if a gray earth isn't available, use the RGB Matrix set to grayscale on a brown earth fill, and then darken it).

    LoopysueDon Anderson Jr.
  • CC4 Overland Development Thread

    I like it. The hint of blue is faint but present. I know snow can come in different tints (just don’t do yellow!) but my personal preference is for snow to be slightly blue-ish rather than any other color. This coloring is perfect for me.

    RickoLoopysue