Slowly getting on with the ruins...

Hi Everyone! :)

In this Thursday's Live Mapping session Ralf will be using the first style of the 2008 Cartographer's Annual to draw a map in Pete Fenlon's classic 1980's RPG map style.

Come along and join in the fun :)

Those are beautiful Ricko, and don't really need any further embelishment like a parchment, but for future reference...

The fills you have just imported can be accessed in the Fill Style Properties dialog when you click the Fill Style window in the top bar.

I don't have the parchments loaded in this map because I don't need them, but you can see where they would be from this screen shot.

Once you have the dialog open make sure you are on the Bitmap Files tab, and click the Fill Style Name dropdown box to find the parchment you want. Having selected the fill so that it is the active fill, you can then use the tools on the right hand toolbar to draw new polygons with the active fill. Remember to chose the right sheet.

I hope that helps.

I've started working on the ruined parts first, since that got the most votes on the FB Group poll with shipwreck bits coming in a close second, and I was wondering what you might think of this first draft of a 5ft wide ruined wall connecting symbol. (Hex and oct corners aren't yet finished).

There's no reason it can't also be used in other dungeom maps as a perfectly ordinary ruined wall without all that water.

There will, of course, also be rubble and broken columns.

I can see the problem straight away.

Colour zero should be black.

Does it go black if you click "Use Default PAL"?