I agree, I really like the displacement effect on the roads. The Forest Trails annual inspired me to do something similar on a lot of my paths. Nice to see it works on an overland map, too.

Congratulations! Also...World's Largest Jeep?

All this time, I thought you did the Forlorn Trails add-on, Sue.

Just searched for campfire. I believe the DD3 one comes from the CA49 (2011) add-on, under the Alchemy Objects group. SS2 Bitmap B has one but it's pretty cartoonish. SS2 Bitmap A also has one, I think.

Dundjinni Archives has a bunch of free ones but they don't always mesh well with other styles.

Oh, like a Wacom tablet? Gotcha! Nope, I don’t have anything like that.

At this scale, maybe it’s more of a roc’s eyrie.

And now I'm wondering if instead of being a griffon or roc's eyrie, maybe it's a wyvern's?

Here's a super quick, super rough experiment using Darklands City as the base with 13th Age Revisited for mountain peaks. I will keep playing with it, but there's some potential there.

Here's an even rougher experiment with Creepy Crypts. Would need to do more finessing and blending to get it to work.

The quest continues. Meanwhile, if any symbol designers are working on cliffs for a future annual, maybe ponder whether a few ridges or peaks would make sense to include.

Sometimes YouTube allows for creating automated transcripts, I assume using the same technology for their automated captions. I’ve toyed with the idea of seeing whether I take one of the Lives, clean it up, and create an index of where to find particular commands and functions. Seems daunting, though. I imagine it would take a lot of time for one video, even with automation, and there are of 200 Live videos!

Yes -- or allowing things to have multiple layers (so, for example, a symbol for a particular building on a city map may be on one layer for the type of building and another for its neighborhood).

I do tend to use layers mostly to be able to hide/unhide groups of things together. For example, in my dwarven mines, the mountaintop and all of the terrain and rock symbols associated with it were on one layer so I could cut off the top of the mountain to peer inside the mine with just hiding one layer. Or for a secret treasure chamber, the walls, floors, and symbols may all be on the GAME MASTER ONLY layer to hide or reveal all of them at once. Occasionally I'm faced with the choice of wanting it to be on multiple layers. I suppose that could get confusing, though, if one of those layers is hidden and the other is not.

(At this point, I suspect this thread may morph into a CC4-Plus thread.)

This is great. I have a couple of large cities that I’m planning to do, and have been pondering approaches. Using separate layers for each neighborhood sounds like a good idea, and I will study CA129. I think I may do one in SS5 and the other in Darklands City. Any tips — anything you wish you had done along the way or before getting started?