Yep, there's a steep learning curve when starting out with CC3+, but you will find it quickly gets easier with experience.

Glad things managed to get sorted out for you with this one though.

Keep up the mapping!

The Arabic script recurs quite frequently with various CC3+ installs I've noticed, and over at least the last couple of years, though you sometimes have to be quite quick to spot it, and I haven't paid it much mind till now. I assumed there was a good reason for it.

[Or maybe some Cthulhoid cult's hacked into the CC programs, checking for what non-Euclidean-angle geometry's possible in constructing maps, maybe, or whether they can randomly design night-sky charts to make the stars "right" 😉.]

Yes, and I had no problems with it. It ran through a couple of reinstall/repair screens before it got to the normal CC3+ windows (with the EULA, etc.), and those R/R screens were where I also spotted the Arabic writing this time.

If this is the Jon Roberts example map for the Island Chain issue, I haven't had any issues scrolling the tool lists, although I did notice that map doesn't have Effects loaded on opening, which is a little unusual nowadays.

The other two example maps (Outer Hebrides and The Shining Pearls) were also fine for scrolling the tool lists. I did notice that I didn't have to scroll down the list to reach the new island chain drawing tools though, as the "All map drawing tools" pane opens already at the end of the list.

And obviously shocked there's no wyvern statue 😉🐲

Yet 😁

OK, so after an hour of checking, downloading and reinstalling, I have the complete 2018 Annual installed (again...), and an identical problem to Julian's still. No varicolor bushes unless I load from the PNG files, as described already above.

Before I reinstalled, all four of the Japanese Temples FSC files had dates of 31/08/2018, and they all still do, so I can only assume they were never updated in the final (i.e. the one huge, ~2 GB, Annual download file for 2018).

Hopefully these can be easily redone to correct the problem, though I imagine everyone who owns that Annual except Sue (!) will then need to reinstall the updated version.

I can confirm the problem Quenten reported. At a guess, it may be to do with the CA187_MediumIslandChain.esc file (I'm not familiar with the file type, so don't know what to open it with to check). That's the file being accessed by the macro that runs the drawing tool, at least, and it seems to be the main difference between the three Island Chain drawing tools from a quick look.

You can just use one of the basic landmass drawing tools in the style to do this. Note you can also delete individual islands and replace them this way (as I just did a quick test doing precisely that).