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Remy Monsen
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  • [Atlas Submission] - Doriant - Gold Coast - Eknapata Desert - Kukaar


    This is why I like these single simple maps without any description text or toggles. They are very quick for me to do when I find the time, while larger map dumps or more complicated setups require more time, so they get stuck in my queue until I have a larger chunk of time available.

    (Of course, if a map is supposed to be part of a set (like a multi-floored building/dungeon), it is better to get the whole set at once since it will be less time per map compared to going back and forth for every map as they arrive one by one, but I still need to be able to find a larger chunk of time)

    Royal ScribeLoopysue
  • Community Atlas WIP - Panaur region of Doriant

    Then it will be up to Remy to tell me all the shit I did wrong and have to fix.

    Some of the more typical things people forget are map title and other labeling, scale bar and compass roses, and they forget to use proper scale for the map. For the latter, when using Info -> Distance, the value should be what is expected. For example, if measuring along the a scale bar, the value in the dialog should match the displayed value on the scale bar. If the measurement come up wrong, it is likely that the entire map is scaled wrongly. Or if it comes up right, but the values on the scale bar doesn't match your intended scale for the map, it also means it is scaled wrong.

    Loopysue
  • Jim Pierce 1947 - 2024

    That's just because I seem to have posted http: links instead of https: ones. Considering that this isn't sensitive data, and you don't need to submit any data to my server either, this is more an issue of the browser being paranoid rather than an actual issue.

    But here's the https link if you need it: https://jimp.monsen.cc/DwarfHome/

    rredmond
  • Dungeon Level Symbols

    Those are absolutely lovely. Maybe you should do a household animal annual?

    ScottARicko
  • Autosave Error

    Well, I was more thinking about the actual fill style dialog, but it makes no difference. That list with preview shows that it does look ok.

    Honestly, I am not sure what could have happened here and why the map appears to display completely without fill styles, even the most basic ones when the fills seems to be there.

    I suggest you take this to technical support via the form on your registration pages.

    Loopysue
  • Community Atlas: Hopes Lost, Lampoteuo Region, Artemisia

  • Adding Custom Icons to a Custom Button

    Also note that you need your button image in four resolutions, compass.bmp, compass24.bmp, compass32.bmp, compass48.bmp. (image sizes should be 16x16, 24x24, 32x32 and 48x48).
    roflo1
  • How Can I Draw Real-World Places in Campaign Cartographer?

    Unfortunately, the Microsoft Print to PDF printer driver is pretty basic, so you can't control much when using that one.

    But the general way to make thing the correct size for print is to rely on scaling, not margins. In the print dialog, switch to scale factor instead of fir to page, and make sure scaling is correctly set up. If your drawing is properly scaled from the outset, you should be able to calculate this rather easily, but if not, it may require some trial and error. You can also use the Distance command from the info menu to measure distances in your map, such as the width, to properly calculate the scale needed.

    Obviously also set the tiling option to the desired value, adding overlap if desired.

    This should ensure that your drawing end up the right size in the PDF, and you should then be able to print the document from the pdf using the the documents internal margins without the printer adding any more. You might need to print it with pdf software that allows more control over the printing process so that the scale of the document can be kept intact, like adobe reader to do that, I am not sure the built in pdf-viewer in windows handles that properly.

    Loopysue
  • Upgrading old CC2 maps

    The whole world file has turned out rather nicely, although I was unable to change the line widths successfully. When I tried to do this, the shapes turned into filled lines.

    Yea, you can't just change line widths of polygons. A polygon is filled as long as it is set to line with 0, otherwise it becomes a hollow shape with the outline the size of the line width. To have a thick outline on a polygon, it needs to be a separate entity. It is quite possible your polys already have those, if so, be sure to only select the outline and not both the poly and the outline when changing width.


    As for the colors in the maps, it looks like the original maps was made using a different color palette. In the CC2 days, you could have a different palette by having the palette stored as fcw32.pal in your CC2 installation directory, and all maps would then use that palette instead. So you probably need to go see if you can find that original pal file somewhere.

    Since that file affected all maps loaded, we don't usually do that any more. These days, you can attach a palette to a drawing, and the drawing will use the embedded palette instead of the default one, which is what you should be doing to these maps, but you'll need to find the old palette if you wish to know the exact colors used, otherwise you just have to guess and experiment.



    ThorfMarja Erwin
  • CC3+ Sheet Effects stopped working

    Have you hidden the MERGE layer? If this layer is hidden, sheet effects won't work.
    Royal Scribe