The problem you are encountering here is that there is both an outline and a landmass. When you use change properties, you end up changing both of them (or all 3 in this case). You need to select just the land poly.

In your case, the easiest way to do that is when using schange properties to select the landmass by the edge of the inner lake, instead of the outer coastline. There should only be one entity there. This saves you from doing other tricks to select only the right entity.

Looking at your screenshots, it looks like the white gap is part of the image. CC3+ doesn't add or remove anything from the image (shouldn't anyway, and I've been unable to get it to). So my recommendation is to have a closer look at the source image, seems there is a border on the bottom and right sides.

There is a setting called 'outlined' on the settings for the fill in the fill dialog, you can check that it is disabled, but I don't think that's what you are seeing here.

While that symbol is a raster symbol, it is really just some simple geometric shapes. You should be able to easily enough draw that yourself using the circle and polygon tools in CC3+ and define it as a vector symbol. The user manual goes through symbol creation on page 75 if you're unsure of that part.

Looks nice. Can't wait to have that ice break beneath the feet of a player attempting to fight a monster on it.

In this case, it is probably simpler not bothering with the tool at all.

Just set the correct sheet, correct color, line width to 0 and fill to 0 on the status bar. Then do CONTOURSM on the text and the poly should go on the right sheet.

Another way that uses the drawing tool is to make a macro drawing tool that sets all the properties as above, and then calls CONTOURSM at the end of the macro, just leaving you to pick the text. I talk about macro tools in this blog article:

No, not that easily. If you are willing to do it with an effect, you can very easily draw a polygon along the road and use the color key effect to knock out those parts, otherwise you'll need to either redraw or modify the polygons.

Keep in mind that the drawing tools have a trace feature, so it is quite easy to draw a new poly that follows along part of the old one, and then draw the part along the road manually.

When you load a master filter file, it loads all those slots, not just the first one, you don't load files into slots. Almost all of the existing master filters are using the first slot for the style, because the first one is the one activated by default.

But you can make your own file by filling out the different slots, and then save it as a new master filter file. When you load that file, it will contain he slots as you saved them, and the symbol style toggle button will toggle between those in the list.

No, hitting load will load ALL the slots at once from what's in the file you pick. The saved files are a collection of filters, loading loads the entire collection from each file, not just a single item to put into a single slot.

To make a custom setup, you'll just need to type the filters you want into each slot and then save it. This will save a file with the complete set of all slots you have defined, and when you load it, it will load all the slots from that file.

If it were to load just a single slot at a time, it would be impossible to make a file containing many filters at once (which is precisely what you're attempting to make), because you couldn't load it again.

Yea, this is one of the cases where you have to use Edge Fade and not Edge Fade, Inner. One of the differences between these effects is that edge processes each differently solid colored polygon individually, while edge fade, inner processes the entire combined shape on the sheet.

To use Edge Fade, Inner here, the borders would have to be on individual sheets where the number of sheets equal the N-color problem for your layout.

I agree, it is not pure black and white as to what is best, videos or text. But I can scan an A4 page of text and pick out the bits I need in seconds, while a video covering the same thing would be in the 10-20 minutes range or more, and it is impossible to scan it the same way you do a page of text. And text can easily be searched for keywords. In most cases videos simply eat up more of my precious time. I always hate when I search for help on a problem on google, and the only thing I find are links to videos. You often can't even tell if they are relevant to your problem before getting far into it.

But when it comes to demonstrating a complicated thing, videos can often be superior to see someone actually performing the task. And when seeing something visually, you don't need to understand the particular jargon either, you see what they do even if you didn't know what it was called.

Having the video divided up into chapter helps, but when creating a video it is often difficult to create good chapters. It is also a lot of extra work when creating the video, either up front because you need a much more detailed plan, or afterwards because you need to work through it and figure out how to divide it and what part really is. And people often come to the video looking for different aspects of things, which means that the chapter division that works perfectly for one doesn't provide a good organization for another (books have the same problem)