Oh yes. That animal track was meant to be a big cat, but there were several things wrong with it including that I made the mistake of judging the size of the prints against a 10 ft grid that I thought was a 5ft grid. Now that I've sorted it out it looks a lot better ;)

But just because it's not a great cat track I've called it 'Beast' instead of 'Cat'.

Ok. Different project entirely...

If I had a tool that drew a poly on one sheet, but I wanted that poly copied onto no less than 5 other sheets simultaneously, would this be possible using a macro?

The reason I ask is because I have this idea for a new style that depends very much on being able to easily draw a land-shaped hole through 5 sheets of ocean without getting into all the complexities of copying it across one sheet at a time by hand.

This is the map so far - a doodle just to get the effects heading in the right direction. The land shades are all in the background. That's how I've got them to behave in a way that doesn't depend on the coastline. But to do this with drawing tools I would need a macro that put the same Colour Key shape on all 5 ocean sheets at the same time.

It looks like you've got more than half way there, so starting again by importing everything into a new MD map might be even more of a time waster, since you would only then have to copy all the sheet effects from this map into the MD map. It's probably better to carry on and copy the sheet effects you need across from an open MD map. When you have two maps open side by side like that remember that having autosave turned on can cause a crash, so best to turn it off for the duration of the operation if you normally have it turned on

Thanks Julian :)

And you're right - the assets have been handed over so Ralf has time to do his bit of magic making it all work properly for you. Myabe if I have time I might do something, but I've just started a new much larger project so I don't know when that might be.

It's an area in square map units. In an overland map that will be miles if it is imperial, or kilometres if its metric. In city or dungeon maps map units are always either feet in imperial, or metres in metric.

If you are mixing styles and the symbols from a newly introduced style have the same name as those in the original or earlier style the FCW holds onto the first definition. It's hard to say what's going on, though. Maybe upload the FCW and list the missing symbols - see if we can add them and make them stay?

If you are hiding layers that might account for it, or even just the sheets. If you hide a sheet that might be the sheet those missing parts ended up on without you being aware they were there.

It's quite difficult to say what's happening without the FCW.

It sounds pretty complicated with all these different levels in one map. Could it be something to do with the sheet ordering and things not being on the sheet you think they are on?

Without the FCW it's quite difficult to make a good suggestion. If this is a private commission of some kind and the FCW can't be uploaded here, maybe contact Tech Support for help?

My goodness! 2 groups! You really are quite an enthusiast. I hope your players appreciate the care you take with your maps :)

This kind of flaw usually occurs when there are two nodes too close to each other and is more common in these heavily fractalised polygons.

When you say you tried changing the amount of nodes, do you mean you tried SIMPLIFY on the keyboard?