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Monsen

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  • Changing the room placement crosshair color

    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.


    roflo1
  • Problem with red marks appearing on maps

    The first one seems to have red areas that look like terrain and not Xs.

    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.

    Royal Scribe
  • Community Atlas City of Tartateos - Shipyards District

    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.

    Quenten
  • How long have you been using Campaign Cartographer?

    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?

    Loopysue
  • Altering GUI for larger tools

    There are a couple of things you can change. For example, you can get larger toolbar icons by clicking the :TOOLSICON: button, and you can change the size of the symbol display by clicking the options button on top of the symbol catalog.

    The rest of the GUI is set up using standard Windows sizes, and follows whatever scaling setting you set in Windows. (With some exceptions, like the text size in the blue info window.

    roflo1
  • XP - Solar Legends Map Generator

    My next effort will be to package it so that you don't need Visual Studio to run it.

    That's easy enough. When you build it, it creates a .dll file. Just give people a copy of this file and tell them to put it in the CC3+ installation directory (Just make sure you build it in Visual Studio using the Release profile and not the Debug one). I am pretty sure people won't need to install any C++ runtimes.

    Royal Scribe
  • Community Atlas: Petroc Hills area, North Central Alarius

  • Community Atlas - Irisian City States - Dimitrios island

    Farmland fill looks a bit too large scaled IMHO for that small island. Have you tried reducing the fill scale a bit?

    Quenten
  • Delete hyperlinks between maps

    While the tome doesn't address deleting them directly, it tells you how to show/hide and edit them on page 136.

    I try to cover as much as I can for the documentation, but CC3+ is pretty complex so it is difficult covering all the different ways people may be looking for information without making the documentation unwieldy.

    But I am always taking suggestions for what to improve.

    Don Anderson Jr.
  • My Favourite Fantasy city.

    All the main add-ons have their own menus. I don't think there is a central location where this is stated, but the toolbar for each add-on are discussed as the first thing in every add-on's chapter in the Tome.

    For the city legend, I am assuming you talk about the index (Create Index in the City menu), you can find it on page 398 of the current version of the tome. Unfortunately, search is rather dependent on using the right words. Which of course, is difficult to know when you're searching for something you are unfamiliar with. Acrobat is not smart enough to search for similar terms, and making a list of all the words people may use when searching for every single term used in the book is also rather unfeasible. Maybe in the future it will be possible to use an AI to search the book that actually understands the context, which would make it easier to use alternate terms and still find what you are looking for.

    Loopysue