This is unofficially known as Transparency Acne, and is an artefact caused by the rendering engine when it fails to recognise pixels in the upper sheet that happen to be exactly the same colour as the underlying pixels.

This causes little virtual holes (holes) in the upper sheet, and effects are applied around the edge of each of these holes. In this example the bevel is being applied, resulting in this pitted effect.

Add a new sheet just underneath the upper sheet and copy the the polygons from the upper sheet onto it, then hide everything except the new sheet and use the Change Properties tool to make the new polygons on the underlying sheet a solid fill and some colour that you can be fairly sure isn't included in the texture. Colour 227 is a good one.

Hi Everyone :)

In this week's Live Mapping session (Thursday 8 July) Ralf has invited us all to: "...get (at least) our feet wet with the latest Annual issue..."

All are welcome to come along and watch - maybe comment and ask questions if you want to know more.

Just click the video link above and follow the bottom right hand corner link to the YouTube page to book a reminder (it vanishes pretty fast so be quick with that second click).

Hi MakerofWorlds :)

Assuming you have downloaded the installer from your account page and installed it, try clicking the little folder button at the top of the symbol pane and re-open the Structures catalogue file.

It's probably more to do with the size of the glow than the width of the line.

If they look ok when you export the map you don't need to worry about them anyway ;)

Oh yes!

[face-palm moment]

There are times when I have to shake my head at myself for not thinking of the most obvious things!

This is part of a Live Mapping session demonstrating the Ryecroft Town annual issue, but the Street tool works the same in any style.

https://youtu.be/cIwOSDF9VPw?t=1642

Drawing tools are part of the style template, so saving a modified tool will cause that tool to stay saved that way. It is better to pick the tool you want to change and then press the New button. A new tool with the same qualities as the one you wanted to modify will be created, and you can name it as you see fit. When you modify this new tool and save it, the tool will be saved alongside the other tools in that style, but it won't alter any of the tools that came with the style.

Similarly, if you get into modifying the textures and symbols of a style it is better to copy them and rename them as your own variations before you work on them.

Edit: Ninjad by a much better answer from Remy :)

Hi Everyone :)

In this week's Live Mapping session Ralf will be revisiting the Modern Cities Annual style from 2007 - the first Cartographer's Annual to ever be published.

Come along and join in - learn how to get the most from these styles. All are welcome :)

I think there may have been a Discord at some point. It may even still exist. I don't know. I really hate Discord. You spend half an hour explaining something to someone and it's vanished a day later when someone else asks the very same question.

Help?

I hope you will be surprised in the end. Darkness is all the more frightening if it masquerades as light. But of course there will be varicolour ;)