
Monsen
Monsen
About
- Username
- Monsen
- Joined
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- Roles
- Administrator
- Points
- 8,858
- Birthday
- May 14, 1976
- Location
- Bergen, Norway
- Website
- https://atlas.monsen.cc
- Real Name
- Remy Monsen
- Rank
- Cartographer
- Badges
- 27
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What got you into cartography?
When I started playing AD&D (2nd Ed) back in the early 90's I was elected the group's DM, so it became my responsibility to provide the adventures, and by extension, the maps for them. And now 30+ years later, my group still plays AD&D (2nd Ed), I am still the DM, and I still make the adventures and maps.
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Community Atlas - Tombs - Fonlorn Archipelago - Bleakness - Plains of Ash
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Community Atlas - Tombs - Fonlorn Archipelago - Bleakness - Plains of Ash
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Upgrading old CC2 maps
The whole world file has turned out rather nicely, although I was unable to change the line widths successfully. When I tried to do this, the shapes turned into filled lines.
Yea, you can't just change line widths of polygons. A polygon is filled as long as it is set to line with 0, otherwise it becomes a hollow shape with the outline the size of the line width. To have a thick outline on a polygon, it needs to be a separate entity. It is quite possible your polys already have those, if so, be sure to only select the outline and not both the poly and the outline when changing width.
As for the colors in the maps, it looks like the original maps was made using a different color palette. In the CC2 days, you could have a different palette by having the palette stored as fcw32.pal in your CC2 installation directory, and all maps would then use that palette instead. So you probably need to go see if you can find that original pal file somewhere.
Since that file affected all maps loaded, we don't usually do that any more. These days, you can attach a palette to a drawing, and the drawing will use the embedded palette instead of the default one, which is what you should be doing to these maps, but you'll need to find the old palette if you wish to know the exact colors used, otherwise you just have to guess and experiment.
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Compass Roses