Part 2 of this Live Mapping event is set for 1700 UTC tomorrow (21 January)

Please feel welcome to come along and join in :)

It would be worth checking with copyright owners where possible, for some 'free' things are not as free as they give the impression they are. Most are free to use, but not necessarily commercially as (for example) VTT tokens for redistribution.

I'm not trying to put a damper on your project. Only concerned that you shouldn't accidentally fall foul of people who can turn out to be unexpectedly nasty. I've had experience of that kind of thing. A completely innocent mistake on my part was loudly and very publicly declared to be blatant theft and I was compared with a very real and rather infamous map thief! Fortunately for me the accusation was transparently a laughable exaggeration, but others have not been as fortunate.

My accusers have continued to make my life pretty uncomfortable on other forums ever since, so please don't do this to yourself - not by mistake at any rate. I've been persecuted for so long that sometimes I almost wish it HAD been deliberate, because then at least I would deserve it.

Hi Aeludor :)

For some reason, probably to do with the style, there are 2 floors there instead of just the one floor.

If you hide the layer "BACKGROUND (FLOOR 2)" the second plain black floor is hidden from view like this

Hi Julian :)

It might be that you are seeing the mountains at a slightly lower resolution, which will slightly blur the sharp lines into the white area around them. Try opening the Display Speed dialog and picking Fixed Bitmap Quality to set it to Very High, and then Apply the change. This should give you sharper and hopefully blacker mountains.

I hope you don't mind, but I have demonstrated this here using a view from the FCW file you uploaded on your other thread, as I didn't have an example of my own in that style to hand.

Ralf did a Live Mapping session just over a week ago where he covered most of the sheet effects. The Blend Mode is at 28:40 or thereabouts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y9NRUm2jHg

Basically, the mode you pick from the dropdown box at the top of the edit dialog for this effect gives you a set of different ways to blend the pixels of the texture on this sheet with the underlying map. They are closely related to the kind of blend modes you might find between layers in a bitmap editor, so overlay and multiply will do exactly what setting them in GIMP or PS would do.

The opacity just controls how opaque the things on that sheet are.

You mean the line width?

You can either set the line width before you draw the line by clicking the little box at the top with W: in it, or you can use change properties once it's already drawn.

Another way, without altering the actual width of the line, is to add a glow to the sheet it is on that is the same colour as the line.

Yes.

Just make sure you hide all the other sheets first so you don't move anything you didn't want to move. Then pick the :CC2MOVE: tool, and select all the bits that you want to move and press D on your keyboard for do it.

Watch the command line. It will ask you for an origin point to start the move from. You need to click somewhere first to give it a 'move from point'. That gets a lot of people ;) While you are in the process of moving things the command line gives you useful hints about keyboard controls that will allow you to simultaneously rotate and scale the things you are moving. If you don't want to do any of that just keep your other hand off the keyboard. I've lost count of the number of times I've accidentally scaled and/or rotated something while moving it.

You're welcome :)

I can't say what caused that for certain, but on some overland templates some drawing tools line widths are controlled as a percentage of the width of the map. This is the first thing that would seem to be the likely cause.

If you use the Draw Like tool in the Draw menu you can pick up the exact width of the line on the entity you prefer, and then modify the drawing tool. Here I have done this with the coastline, which is the only part of the entity that has a line width to be other than zero (the land automatically has to have a line width of zero to be filled). Then I have opened the drawing tool dialog and clicked Advanced. I've picked the Land, Default drawing tool, which draws both land and coastline, and then edited the Outline, which is the coastline entity of the two things this tool draws.

The properties of this Outline show how it is a "Fraction of the Map Border".

All I have to do to fix it at a certain width is to pick the option above that one. I set it to fixed and to the value of 1, which is the line width I previously picked up from the Draw Like command.

You don't need to save this change, but use the tool immediately.

If you want to save the tool it is better to go back two steps to the advanced dialog and click the new button - to make your own copy of it. This is because you are playing with the drawing tools that are part of the template, and any changes you save into the originals will be there until such a time as you change them again, or reinstall the software.

Here is a drawing tool I made for myself that uses all the current properties - layer, sheet, colour, fill, line width etc. It's just handy for the way I work, which is different for everyone. As you can see from the preview it's shown just like the coastline - the properties of which I picked with the Draw Like command.

This one isn't suitable for what you want to do because it only draws one polygon. I just wanted to show you that if you make a new tool and save it, that new tool will show up every time you use that template to make a new map in that style. It's a bit blurry for some reason, but the tool is called Sue, default. Only I have this tool because it is one I made for myself.