Mark have fixed this issue now. It was caused by an issue with the old installer version. He's built a new version, 2.2, which is now available for download from the same location as the old one.

There are no differences in the content between this new installer and the previous 2.1 from the site, so anyone running the current version don't need to go get the new one, the only difference is that the new version don't try to uninstall stuff if you upgrade from a previous version using it. If you have downloaded the 2.1 installer but haven't used it yet, then you should probably go get the new one instead, but again, this issue was only a problem if you already had an install of the CSUAC and tried to upgrade it, it was never an issue for new installs.

Very few styles have matching overland/city/dungeon styles. The only ones that comes to mine is Jon Roberts (divided over several annuals with all of overland, city and dungeon) and Mike Schley, with the main set in CC3+ itself, and SS4/SS5 dedicated to dungeon and city. But it isn't the common approach. I guess partly because artists have their preferred environment, dungeon scale artist doesn't necessarily make city or overland map, and a lot of the styles from CC3+ is the artist adapting their existing style for CC3+.

That said, since a city, dungeon and overland style isn't linked together, there is nothing wrong for Sue to make an overland style for 2021, and a dungeon style for another year, like 2022. Both issues of spectrum had to go in the same year because just half of it would be a bit weird for the purchaser of only one of the annuals, but a city style is still fully usable even if you don't own the annual with the overland style. If there are any repeating files (like maybe some of the fills), they can easily go in both.

As for Sue's comment that it has to be a city style in between, I disagree. These are separate map types, and there are no reason all three have to be made. Nice, yes, but not required. Just look at the Mike Schley style. Overland was released with CC3+, SS4 Dungeons of Schley was released almost at the same time, while SS5 Cities of Schley was only released many years later.

It may be a hidden file, make sure you show those. If that file is missing, there are no cache, which should make the thumbs show up fine, although it takes a bit longer to open the dialog

Wow, that's a great first map. I hope you stick around the forum and make more maps.

Unfortunately, you can't make the background transparent, you'll have to do that in post-processing in another program. And if you plan to do that, your anti-alias should be off, since antialiasing is the sworn enemy of proper background removal. Also, antialiasing off will let the map export faster.

If you are going to convert it to a jpg anyway, you shouldn't worry about the file size of the png though, since that won't really matter in the end anyway. png's are always quite a bit larger than jpeg's.

Map notes only take 8000 characters, so longer text have to be broken down over multiple. Usually, I get a bit more than a page of text in each. I think Wyvern has the record with a 20-part map note.

Nah, I don't need a pdf file, I can easily make that from the .docx you sent.

@Ralf will have to confirm this, but I suspect the missing fills are just due to poor cleaning of the template. None of those missing fills appears in any of the drawing tools for the style. That list is full of things that don't belong there.

As explained in my initial post, I assume that everyone who posted their .fcw file here in the contest thread intended to submit them to the atlas. (If you misunderstood that part, and do NOT wish to contribute to the atlas, please tell me)

Several contestants here are new contributors to the atlas, and I need to know what name to credit the map to, as well as contact information (such as an email address, or a web site with contact information, facebook profile. etc.). By default, I will use your forum username as the credited name, and set the contact information to "username at the ProFantasy forums". If you want these to appear as anything else, please reply here, or send me a private message. There's also room on the mapper list on the webpage to include a URL beside your name, so if you have a relevant web page or gallery link or similar, you can also give me that. If you're actively using the gallery here at the forum, that could for example be a URL to your gallery page here.

That means that either the navlines or the landmass is on the wrong sheet, or your sheet order is wrong. Check the sheets of the entities with the Info menu -> List command, and make sure the sheet for the navlines appear higher up in the sheet list than the sheet for the landmass.

And for the record, the rest of the contest maps and other maps in queue will follow, I just don't have time to do everything at once. I did this set first because the 500th map was among them, and as you will notice if you visit the atlas site, we are over 500 now.