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Disappearing Symbols
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Dhakos, The City of Spires - Watabou Cities Annual
If you are working on top view maps it's a question of shadows.
A spire would be either a circular roof or some regular polygon shape, so they can be drawn using the House tool with a roof texture of your choice, on a sheet above all the other building sheets in the map so the long shadows they cast will fall over everything else. Or you could pick from the City Domes annual issue https://www.profantasy.com/annual/2018/bonus18.html which contains all kinds of small regularly shaped rooftops that could top a tall tower.
A spire might have a tall pinnacle above that roof, so you might need another sheet above that one to draw simple very thin pointy shadows to suggest that the little 'bobble on top' of a roof is actually the pointy bit of the spire.
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Disappearing Symbols
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Live Mapping: Secret Info and Interactive Maps
Hi Everyone! :D
In tomorrow's live mapping session Ralf will be digging into how to add various information overlays and interactivity to a CC3 map.
You can watch it here if you like:
Or come join in the conversation on YouTube here:
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Disappearing Symbols
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.


