That's a beautiful map :)

If you are having issues casting that cliff shadow using a line, where lines tend to cast that intermittent stripy shadow, the alternative is to make the line thicker, or to draw the shape of the shadow as a solid black polygon on a separate sheet, using the existing effect shadow as a guide. Then add a small blur effect, and a Blend Mode set to Multiply or overlay, with a low opacity - around 15% for multiply, but more for overlay.

Hi Everyone :)

Tomorrow, the Live Mapping session will have Ralf showing us the first of the new monthly symbols by Mike Schley, expanding his beautiful Dungeons of Schley style. (SS4)

Watch it here...

Or join in the live chat on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OfqiDTVyTc

Its starting to look quite a lot better.

I usually use at least 20% antialiasing, preferably 33% and sometimes higher.

Right click again.

You should be able to use any of the colour altering sheet effects on the symbols. This is unique to city maps.

Changing the colour can add interest, or mark special buildings

It may be that the Length (how far it goes into the edge) is too great. If you know the width of those lines set the length to half of that. Then try putting 100% fade on it. That should give you a rounded bevel like the ridge of a roof.

Oh I think those are palm tree tops, which are isometric and meant for creating forests where the trunks wouldn't be visible, but I've seen other top view maps use them a bit like bent over palms. I'm not sure they would really work as far as resolution goes either, since you would have to enlarge them beyond the limit where rasterization would occur to be a realistic size for a dungeon map.

You could just put the different floors in little sub-framed sections with the same background of cobbles behind each one, but made paler (or darker) as the floors go up?

If you rotate an ordinary polygon the fill stays put.

You can make the fill rotate with the polygon by making it an aligned fill. If that is what you want it to do, hide all the sheets but the FLOORS sheet and right click the polygon tool. Pick "Shaded Polygon, Angle by Edge", and click the edge of the polygon you want the fill to align to. This is like the shading on a house roof, so to take out the pitch information that shades it darker or lighter depending on which way it is 'facing', type EDITSHADING, hit Enter, and pick the shaded polygon floor. Then in the dialog that appears check the "Shade only copy" checkbox and ok it.

The rules don't normally change between bundles, and if they ever do I'm sure Profantasy will let everyone know ahead of the time.