Try a fill with a more visible texture. It gets a bit harder to find something nice due to the perspective nature of the map, but you could try with something like the Stone Lava Cooled bitmap from DD3.

Additionally, the pixelation of your current fill is really bad, causing it to appear more like a uniform mess. Try decreasing the scaling of the fill as well. That leads to more repetition when zoomed out of course, so you may need to consider working a bit with the surface, applying layers of different fills and blending them using effects to avoid the repetition.

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What is created initially depends on what tools you use. If you use the basic tools (path, poly, etc) in the right-hand toolbars, they only create a single entity, either a line or a polygon, depending on the tool (Of course, if you draw using a polygon tool, but has line width greater than 0, it will appear as a hollow shape with an outline, looking more like a line than a poly, but it is still a polygon)

If you draw something using one of the drawing tools (usually accessed from the buttons in the top right, or the symbol catalog window) it may or may not draw two entities, depends completely on the tool. Some only draw a wall, some only draw a floor, and some draw both.

If you use the dungeon room/corridor tool, it will always make two entities, wall and floor.

In the cases where the tool created two entities, these are separate, and needs to be edited separately.

You can usually easily identify if something is one or two entities by using the List command from the Info menu. If it goes straight form 0 selected entities to 2 selected entities when you click on the edge, you know you are dealing with overlapping entities (probably a floor and a wall), and the info you get when executing the command should give the details on the entities.

When you use break on a polygon, it turns into a path (a line), which means it is no longer a polygon, and obviously therefore have no surface area to fill anymore, which is why the fill disappears.

You should be well on your way with CC3+ and SS3. Do note that SS3 is a generic modern set, it doesn't have anything in specific for superhero, but on the other hand, most of the specific stuff would be the superheroes themselves anyway, the rest is mostly standard modern. Of course, no symbol pack is ever going to have every single symbol you're ever going to need, but these are a good start.

We currently don't have any other sets for modern available, but for Sci-Fi, there is Cosmographer 3. Note that the art style in Cosmographer 3 is a bit different from SS3 since they are by different artists. You can mix and match in the same map if you want to, but they were not designed with that purpose in mind.

There are some free community provided packs, and while mostly focusing on fantasy, some of them (CSUAC and Dundjinni archives mostly) also have some modern and futuristic symbols.

And, as Sue said above, you can use any .png file as a symbol, so you can find and add symbols from other sources you may have access to.

Maps now added to the atlas. Thanks Wyvern.

Thanks @Wyvern , maps have now been added to the atlas

The crosshair isn't actually a color. It is drawn as the negative color (XOR) for anything it is over, so when over a dark background, it is light, and over a light background it is dark.

It's just an illusion caused by the shape of the poly, the size of the red X, and the fact that it is in the background partially covered by other fills. Look closer at it, and you'll see the sharp straight edges between the red X and the white background.

Personally, I feel it needs more clearly defined streets. The continuous cobblestone fill looks a bit weird and unnatural to me. Even if a city did use cobbles for all it's streets (which is uncommon in itself), having it wall-to wall everywhere looks out of place, especially in places outside the main thoroughfares, like back alleys and backyards.

Interesting. I don't know exactly when CC2 (The first Windows version) arrived, but the earliest ads I could find were from 1997, several years earlier. Do you remember why you went for the DOS version at that time?