This week in live mapping, Ralf will be teaching us how to hide easter eggs on a map and how to set them up for the hunt (using the hotspot and macro functions of CC3+).

Come and join the hunt live on Youtube here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRX2UwzSW1M

Or if you prefer you can watch it here on the forum*

*This thread isn't monitored during the show, but you are welcome to discuss it below.

I would really love to have a good copy of part of the Ferraris Map. I did a mapping style for CC3 based on it some time ago now, and fell in love with it.

However, in reality all I have is a print of a Saxton map of my home county, Dorset, drawn in 1575. The light is bad here at the moment. Sorry about the glare of the lightbulb.

I ended up with this by accident. A neighbour was moving house and was about to throw this in the skip.

After a long break while I was trying to work out how to tackle the painting of things (which of many quite different apps to use, and how), I've settled on Artrage for the textures purely because it allows me to paint seamless tiles by hand a lot easier than trying to remember how Krita works after 5 years of not really using it.

So here are the first few refined grassy type fills, desert fills and ocean fills.

I also struggled a long time on the land texture, until I remembered that it was mostly going to be hidden in finished maps.

The mountains haven't been finished, and there are symbols hanging around that are part of other styles, like Spectrum and Darklands. They are just there for now for rough comparisons in tone, shade and colour.

Wanting to make a map for the novel I never finished writing (and probably never will).

Those are the 'symbols in map'. You can tell by the depressed button on the left at the top of the panel.

If you click that depressed button now you will be returned to the catalogue you were using.