Thanks Don and Wyvern :)

I've taken a screen shot of that initial image showing the different types and stuck it in the file of reference material. That will be more useful for the regional version of the style. For me, this intial continental map style is more about the fact that this is a volcanic province and there are bumps on it - represented by the bevel ridges and the classic shield vocano cones.

I'm glad we've sorted things out a bit with the new terrain texture.

My experience of volcanoes is limited to recent Icelandic and Hawaiian erruptions - the last 4 years of them anyway, so the fill reflects at least the mood of what I've seen of the relatively flat ground around those eruptions, which seems to be surprisingly pale except where vehicles off road and turn the surface to reveal the darker colours, but I'll keep it for something else and try a volcanic-coloured version of the tundra fills.

Another reason for making it relatively pale is that the darker the fill is, the darker the symbols have to be, and the darker the symbols are, the less effective the map files are, to the point where you can hardly see any shading at all. Map files work best on mid-tone symbols like rooftops. We'll be ok with the regular mountains because they aren't as dark as volcanoes, but the volcanoes are certainly proving to be quite a challenge.

Wyvern - I was just thinking about the ridges. I put the mountain shape on the hill shape sheet instead, which has a much softer blur.

There will be a range of volcanoes to play with - most of them smaller than these. These are supervolcano size.

Calibre - That's a shame. I wouldn't change it too much - the volcano symbols won't match. But on the bright side, these are mapped symbols, so as long as you have them on a sheet of their own you can use colour changing sheet effects on them too.

Here's a version of the same volcano (the one to the north pasted twice) with fuzzy edges. Is it better? Worse?

:)

1. Type SIMPLIFY and hit Return
2. Look at the command line

1. If it's some other figure hit the zero and Return.
2. Hit return if you haven't already

1. And then select the path or straight polygon you want to simplify. The action will be immediate.

Oh look at that! I bet Wyvern has beaten me to it while I was trying to work out how to make the paragraph numbering go right.