Hi Ptarmigan :)

I'm looking forward to seeing some of your work.

Hi everyone! :D

In this week's live mapping session Ralf will be using the Scorching Sun overland style from the 2016 Cartographer's Annual to show the map creation process in a beginner-friendly way.

Come along and join us on Youtube for the live chat here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_85HPtCkR_8

Or if you prefer you can watch it here (though there is no live chat on the forum)

All are welcome to join in the chat.

Please can I do the village of Elkton, from the Alarius North Central map?

That looks a lot better. I can see that they are towns rather than something I can't interpret as being anything in particular.

Can you add smaller towns in the local maps? Yes. The whole point of doing local maps is to be able to add the details that aren't appropriate for the regional map.

It's been a while since I played with SS5, but I remember one way of turning the map to greyscale was to add an RGB Matrix Process to the Whole Drawing and pick the Gray preset for it.

The fact that the folder is called Color doesn't mean there is a black and white version.

Here is a shot of one of the example maps with the RGB Matrix Process added.

I've just noticed that you may have to change the shade of the glow on the text sheet to the palest grey to stop bits of the letters falling out when they are over black parts of the map.

Theoretically, you should be able to turn any style to greyscale using the same method, but I've not tried any of the others.