CC3 draws the BACKGROUND sheet first, and then draws all the others on top of it one after another all the way down the list to the bottom. So if you have something on a sheet near the bottom of the list it's on top of most of the rest of the map in your drawing.

If you want all the entities on a particular sheet to be on top of everything else in the map you would need to move it to the bottom of the list. Take care to leave the border and screen sheets right at the very bottom, though.

The effects on each sheet affect only the entities on that particular sheet.

Usually a sheet with a name that starts with SYMBOLS... has symbols on it, and sheets that don't start that way have lines and polygons on them.

The scaling (or the default symbol size) is something that really should be set at the outset. But you've already done quite a lot of map. When you say it looks too small when you export it, are you exporting it always with this broad white border around it?

What export options are you using? These are controlled by the dialog that opens when you hit the Options button in the Save as... dialog.

Here is an example.

You can export the same map a lot larger by increasing either the Print Size or the Pixel Size. The settings above produce a much larger export than the default settings.

The Restrict image to map border checkbox should also cut out that large white border.

When in metric maps scale to the appropriate metric unit, which is km in overland and m in both city and dungeon

And in imperial maps scale to the appropriate imperial unit, which is miles in overland and feet in city and dungeon.

Hi Everyone! :D

Hope you are having a lovely Christmas and a really great New Year!

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You're welcome, Kevin :)

If you ask a specific question there is usually someone around to help, so don't get stuck simply because there seems to bo so much to learn. Also, if you've used the app before it comes back a lot faster than you might think.

I think Herwin gradually moved on to photography more than fantasy art over the years, so while it would be nice to see these styles expanded I think it's probably not that likely to happen.

@Royal Scribe The HW overland style is included with the core app these days.

Not unless you wanted to separate each of them out into an image per district and trace them that way. When you get to that amount of work it could be faster just to import the image and draw the districts by hand.

Going back to the tracing job on the outline...

The result seems a little pixelated to my eye compared with the original. This can happen if the image being traced is too low in resolution or if the edge between the opaque parts and the transparent parts are not well defined. If you want to improve on that result see if you can make the image both larger (more pixels in a bitmap editor) and more sharply defined.

You seem to be getting on really well. They are easy to read and attractive :)

I'm not able to explain it either, but I created a new sheet called "Backing sheet" and copied the polygon from TERRAIN MOUNTAINS 2 onto it with no sheet effects. It seems to be ok now. Let me know if it stops working, or doesn't work as well as I first thought.