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  • Community Atlas - Doriant - Galahais - The Morstarik

    Does that include those that don't seem to exist?

    [Deleted User]roflo1
  • Text Angle

    If you mean using the "Rotate" command on text, you can just rotate the angle of the text freely without using Shift at all.

    If you need the text to be at a specific angle (which the Shift key option allows, but only at 15° intervals), use one of the Edit Text functions (such as Numeric Edit, or Edit Properties), and just type in the angle you need the text to be at.

    Ricko
  • Community Atlas - Alarius - Seal Island

    You might move the "Quaniit (Falling Snow) Mtn" label above the peak itself, and maybe making it Multiline (so it doesn't hide the village by the shore). It's not very clear where it is currently.

    [Deleted User]
  • Island Chain annual

    The Arabic script recurs quite frequently with various CC3+ installs I've noticed, and over at least the last couple of years, though you sometimes have to be quite quick to spot it, and I haven't paid it much mind till now. I assumed there was a good reason for it.

    [Or maybe some Cthulhoid cult's hacked into the CC programs, checking for what non-Euclidean-angle geometry's possible in constructing maps, maybe, or whether they can randomly design night-sky charts to make the stars "right" 😉.]

    Has anyone tested the new installer?

    Yes, and I had no problems with it. It ran through a couple of reinstall/repair screens before it got to the normal CC3+ windows (with the EULA, etc.), and those R/R screens were where I also spotted the Arabic writing this time.

    If this is the Jon Roberts example map for the Island Chain issue, I haven't had any issues scrolling the tool lists, although I did notice that map doesn't have Effects loaded on opening, which is a little unusual nowadays.

    The other two example maps (Outer Hebrides and The Shining Pearls) were also fine for scrolling the tool lists. I did notice that I didn't have to scroll down the list to reach the new island chain drawing tools though, as the "All map drawing tools" pane opens already at the end of the list.

    JimPScottA
  • Community Atlas - Forlorn Archipelago - Poncegraf Village - Church

    Why thank you Sue! Just getting into practice for the livestream...

    LoopysueJimP
  • Island Chain annual

    Yeah, it's a fine line. Or indeed several fine lines. With islands strung along them. 😎

    Loopysue[Deleted User]
  • Commission WIP!

    Time needed to map a city? OK, working only as and when able, not to deadlines or for money, but the earliest file-date I have connected to my Embra City mapping for the Community Atlas is 7 July 2021, and the final versions of the last maps were submitted for the Atlas on 4 May 2022. And yes, not a standard city by any means, but of comparable detail to some certainly, and with full notes for every individual map and drawing also provided, so not far short of ten months in total (59 maps/drawings).

    Creating cities - actually ANY settlements - are not "quick" or "minor" tasks.

    jmabbott
  • Community Atlas - Ezrute - Skolt City

    I'd be inclined to change the roads to make their routes clearer. The dashed markers in particular are very problematic in places, especially those in the farmland areas in the southeast.

    Making the main routes (currently solid lines) a different colour - maybe red or black - and then using a different colour for the lesser routes/trails, but keeping those lines solid too (maybe a darker brown than the current solid road lines), might help.

    [Deleted User]
  • Community Atlas: Queen Mica's Scintillant Palace

    Yep, there are a number of different symbols involved, which are all just different colours of the varicolor symbols. The symbols are simply added in an appropriate cluster, and stacked to look more or less like a castle.

    [Deleted User]JimP
  • [WIP] Community Atlas August Mapping Contest: Cloven House

    Oops, forgot to mention that I found a small glitch with the fill styles in Dracula's Dossier. The "Floor, Roof S" (= roof tile south-facing) tool is using the west style's fill, so needs swapping out (the "Roof 270" style needs replacing with the "Roof 180" one when you have the Fill Style Properties window open, essentially).

    As this map's so small in scale, I had quite a battle getting the fill styles rescaled correctly more generally, especially the cobbled flooring for the backyard, which has a "Fog" fill that overlies the cobbles, to make them look worn and damaged. The Fog was so dense, all it showed as was white until I'd scaled it down to something I felt sure would be too tiny to work!

    And thanks Sue!

    JimPMaidhc O Casain