It's mainly to do with the drawing order.

Symbols are by default drawn twice to ensure the semi-transparent pixels are not detrimentally affected by the sheet effects. However, the whole map effects are done last of all, and will affect the whole drawing, no matter how many times everything has been drawn up to that point.

You can disable the second drawing of the symbols using DELAYDRAWSYM, but this will damage semitransparent pixels in the symbols. You might not think there are a lot of semitransparent symbols but in truth the edge of nearly all symbols is antialiased, so there will always be a very thin fringe missing, and that may be enough to make the symbol look odd.

DELAYDRAWSYM automatically reverts to 1 next time you open CC3.

Having said all of that there are notable exceptions to the rule. Most house symbols will respond to colour modifying sheet effects because of the presence of map files, which control the shading of rooftops. City Cliff symbols also have map files, and will also respond to these effects.

If you decide to use any of those sets mentioned by pvernon, there is a comprehensive section in the Tome of Ultimate Mapping covering how to create your own symbol catalogues, or if you prefer to watch there are a couple of videos created by Remy Monsen here:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLulP-cGMLxw4qTpXfilRHgbDUg8WvrEX2

Julian is right about the 2 part annuals. It's not actually possible to do all the work in one issue due to the time limitation. Even though the style is done in two halves it doesn't make sense to generate 2 separate folder systems and two separate templates when its all the one style.

I don't recall the two parts of MD ever being sold separately. If an annual is done in 2 parts those two parts must be part of the same annual. It wouldn't be fair to expect someone to buy 2 annuals just because they happen to like that one style.

In the bottom map you have a slight issue with the text being a bit invisible against the trees. If you add a white Outer Glow to the TEXT sheet it will wipe out the trees just around the letters so you can read them better.

(The text sheet will need to be under the parchment sheet, so that the white simply disappears)

If you are using a drawing tool to draw the polygon it might be restricted to operate only within the map border. No need to redraw anything. Hide everything but the sheet the border is on and use the move node tool |CC2DYNEDIT| to pick and move the nodes beyond the map border sufficiently for the visible part not to show within the map.

The first move might be guesswork, but when you show everything again you can adjust the new positions of the nodes you have moved. You hide everything the first time you move them so you don't pick anything else that happens to be aligned with the map border.

I love the new tokens Ale :D

Have you done the EDITSHADING part of it all on page 6? If you didn't they will be different shades depending on which way around they are facing.

Following a couple of requests from people wanting to know how to do one of these:

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I have written a tutorial to describe the process, and attached it here as a pdf document. I have also attached the example FCW file used in the tutorial.

Have fun!

Hi Ute :)

It's Sue Daniel here ;)

Though I very much doubt that it contains anything you don't already know about, there's a thread that Remy Monsen created which lists all the available free stuff we collectively know about here:

https://forum.profantasy.com/discussion/10443/free-symbols-artwork

You might get lucky if you Google the required symbols - most people who sell them have to make the rights pretty clear up front, or have to put up with a constant stream of questions.

Open the Symbol Manager and pick any of the red X symbols. Then click the List button. The resulting blue box will contain the filename and location about half way down. That will give you the subfolder name, which should at least infer which asset pack may be missing or misplaced.