Hello. Let me share a lesson that I just learned. I had a problem with transparency acne, and it took me a while to solve. I had an inner fade effect on a sheet, above a bitmap background. The background was green grass, and the poly above it was black so as to suggest a dome-like shape. Of course, the top poly had acne. Nothing new here. So, I made a liner sheet in between that was a copy of the top sheet with the acne. I used an RGB Matrix effect to make the line sheet bright red. I thought this should have solved the problem, as I've *done this before.* At least I thought so...

Here is a shot of the liner and background sheets with no sheet effects:

There's a black poly with red RGB Matrix on top of a greed bitmap background. I have the actual top layer hidden for this discussion. When I turned on the inner fade, I got this:

Yikes! Why would a *red* layer cause acne on top of a *green* background? Any guesses?

Solution: The RGB Matrix effect did *not* help the acne. The acne was caused by the intrinsic color of the poly, not the computed color after the RGB Matrix effect. In other words, even though the poly looked red to me, the edge fade still took it to be black when it came to acne.

I changed the poly to be explicitly red, and I removed the RGB Matrix effect. Drumroll....

The lesson that I learned: Transparency Acne relates to the color of the top layer without any effects applied to it. Don't use an RGB Matrix effect to shortcut a change to the poly color.

I learned a lesson here. Maybe it was just "Dumb Cartographer Day," and I needed to drink more coffee. Either way, I hope this helps somebody someday!

Congratulations! I for one think that's a big deal. Here's to 1000!

(I was going to write, "Oh, I don't think these things are important," and then write 2 more messages to follow up. 😆)

Saved presets sound like a good community activity. I'm not the keeper of CC3 legalities, but I can do matrix math! I use this effect a lot personally.

I want to try this!

That worked. I never noticed that on the left. Thanks!

Early Request: @Ralf and @Loopysue

I have had trouble getting water, including lakes, shores, and river mouths, to fit in well with this style. I've resorted to lots of manual tweaking. Would you please take some time to show easy, out-of-the-box ways to make them look good with this set?

(I came from a place that has lots of rivers, so they're in my mind.)

Thanks!

Turbo speed can be automatic or manual depending on the motherboard and drivers.

OK, I was imagining the Heron formula for calculating the area of a triangle. Your idea makes more sense!

I'm not sure it would help much, but I did something similar in XP. It's not the same thing, but perhaps a similar kind of problem. The distance formula isn't used, I think, but it could be done very easily in C.

Beautiful, Ralf. Do you have any advice on internationalization of a map? It would be nice to hit a button and change the language used, as in a string table in some software.

This is great! This map is so good that it makes me question the scenario, not the artistry. For instance, are there tracks around here? What about old fire pits? I can believe this is a real place. Great job.

Hello. Did you install the Visual C runtime? I seem to recall having to do that.