If you hide or delete the COASTLINE sheet that will get rid of the blue line, which is a separate entity to the land drawn on the LAND sheet.

I haven't got a default CC3 style map lying around I can just open, and I'm a little tangled up with 3 instances of CC3 open at the same time right now, but if you click on the LAND sheet of the default style you should be able to copy the sheet effects on that sheet, copy them, and paste them into the Mike Schley map.

As for the rivers - I believe they are drawn the same way in both styles, though the colour might be different. You can find out what colour the rivers are in the default style using List from the Info menu, and then change the properties of the rivers in your MS map using the Change Properties button on the left toolbar.

It's not the insertion point, but the baseline of the text. Click on the bottom of a letter and you will see.

I think sheets have been around for quite a while, but either the TEXT sheet or the LABELS layer should do the trick - or variations of those two names.

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I hate shortcut keys other than CTRL+Z, CTRL+C, CTRL+V and CTRL+S

Those stay the same in any app. Everything else is different between apps, and it's a complete nightmare having to remember them for all the apps I use. Worse, I get the apps confused because they are all black and charcoal these days, so I can waste a lot of time by using using the right shortcut key but in the wrong app.

Give me buttons and menu commands any day.

Looking good :)

I think you may have used a bit too much compression on this JPG. I'm getting those nasty little squiggles. 90% is enough. Never ever sacrifice quality for having a file size that is unnecessarily tiny.

If I'd had CC3 in it's current format when I was doing my beach profile surveys for the practical part of my Biology A level back in the 80s, there would have been some pretty spectacular diagrams.

A very tidy map

Quenten is right about the rivers into the lakes. It's just the one coming out of it and heading for the sea (or the next lake in a string of lakes) that should only be just the one.

I only have one suggestion, and even that is only a matter of personal preference. Please ignore it if you like your maps really tidy, but sometimes forests look a little more natural if they thin out towards the edges. With the effects you have on that sheet, however, creating the thinning out by adding small patches around the larger ones might be a little tricky and could make the map look spotty if you go too far, so it is only a suggestion.

@amerigoV - Thank you. I will have a look at that when I get back to the map. Stand alone shadows can be drawn as polygons, or cast by the drop shadow sheet effect.

@George - Thank you very much. In truth all I did was adjust the colour palette and a few of the sheet effects. You would be shocked if you saw this map with effects turned off.

Hi kalnaren :)

This may be being caused by nodes in that very detailed line being too close together - close enough as to be nearly right on top of one another. Try using the Keyboard command SIMPLIFY on that wall. Since this is a dungeon map I would set the factor to about 0.2 or so - that being a fifth of a foot, or if the map is metric it will be equivalent to 20 cm. SIMPLIFY removes nodes that are closer together than that. Using SIMPLIFY will also speed up your map just a bit by reducing the overall node count.

I can see that you have a floor texture there as well. So before you start with anything hide all the sheets but the WALLS sheet.

You may need to do the same to the floor as you did to the wall, but you might get away with just leaving it as it is if there aren't any obvious mismatches.