Monsen
Monsen
About
- Username
- Monsen
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- Administrator
- Points
- 8,940
- Birthday
- May 14, 1976
- Location
- Bergen, Norway
- Website
- https://atlas.monsen.cc
- Real Name
- Remy Monsen
- Rank
- Cartographer
- Badges
- 27
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Dungeon Break: Comic Book Annual Overland & Tweaking
@WVFaeryWoman wrote:
And one final thing. Is it good or bad to reply directly to people in the forums using "@". I haven't done it until recently after it was done to me. I thought maybe it was the polite thing to do, but now I am wondering if it could be annoying.
Using @ is completely fine, especially when it is in context, i.e. to refer to someone saying something earlier in the thread. It is also fine when referring to something a user did earlier/elsewhere, for example "I am following the instruction in this blog by @WVFaeryWoman but I don't understand the steps.....". It is bad if you try to drag unrelated people into the thread by spamming your post with @-mentions, for example posting a request for help, and then filling it with @-mentions of the names of people you know gives good help generally.
If people don't like to be notified for @-mentions, they can control it from their notification preferences.
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Volcano trouble
This can happen if you already have the other volcano in your map (because you have placed it at some point). Open up symbol manager (Symbols Menu -> Symbol Manger) and then either hit Purge (will remove all symbol definitions you have used in the past, but which are not part of the current map, or scroll down in the list until you find the undesired symbol, click on it to select it, and hit the Delete button.
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Dialog box different from Livemapping session
It's just a case of DD3 vs. SS4 menus. When SS4 was first released, the DD3 tools wasn't part of the core package, so SS4 shipped with a menu set that brought up the standard drawing tools instead of the specialized dungeon tools. Just hit the :DD2: button on your toolbar, and the room button should bring up the desired dialog.
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Would a Curved/Globe Map Style be possible?
Anything is possible from a drawing perspective, but there are several of CC3+'s tools that don't work correclty
- Measurements, including distances and angles assumes a a flat map. These can't be used to get accurate data on a curve
- Drawing tools that stop at the map border only work with straight orthogonal lines. This feature doesn't work along a circle or angled line
- Images are rectangular, anything not-rectangular will add empty areas on exports.
- The coordinate system assumes a flat surface, coordinates won't be correct for a curved world.
- Effects also assume a flat surface. This is why many effects cannot be used properly in an isometric map. Not quite as big a problem on a curved map, most things will probably still look fine.
But that said, there are already styles for a curved approach, like the Mercator style from the very first annual (later updated in a newer annual).
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Reset Origin
Not sure why it happens, seems like it happens when the X-dimension gets too large. Since it preserves the aspect ratio of the image, try inserting it using 0,0 for the first corner and 10,10000 for the second corner. The 10 in the second coordinate is basically ignored because aspect ratio is kept. (But you need to use a number larger than 0, so 0,10000 doesn't work)
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Community Atlas Project - Download information - Contributions Welcome
Here's some more great maps from @Quenten
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Some Traveller sub-sector maps I have done
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Community Atlas - Serkbergen / Peredur
Nice. Bergenhus is an important historic site in my home town. Here's an illustration and some text of the real thing. Today, it serves as a museum and an outdoor concert arena.
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Cartographer's Annual - all the issues linked in one place
Too many stickies is indeed a problem. If I stickied everything useful, the front page would be stickies only. But, I've put it in the resources category, a nice curated collection of resources (well, will be once I actually find the time to populate it) where it is easy to find since that category won't be full of clutter. Regular members can post comments in the discussions in this category, but can't post new discussions.
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Community Atlas: Embra - Crossing Places









