I think all those of us who have been here for more than a couple of years will remember Jerry's beautiful maps, and how helpful and kind he was to everyone. I never met him face to face, but his online presence was a shining example of how to be a decent and loveable human being.

Oddly enough I never thought of doing it that way at all. I just redownloaded all the installers and reinstalled everything fresh and new on my new machine last December. Although it takes a bit of time it means that if anything has been updated in any of those installers I get the updated versions. The drawback is if you have made your own symbols, fills and styles. I had to transfer those across as folders and files and put them in the right place.

Hi Everyone! :D

Ralf is back from Spiel and recovered enough to start overland mapping again with Campaign Cartographer 3+, showing us this week how to make maps with the August Cartographer's Annual issue: "E Prybylski Overland 2".

Come along and join in the chat on Youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u-rZXRZvNc

Or watch it here on the forum (though you won't be able to join in the chat right here)

Have you tried reducing the Display Speed 'Automatic bitmap quality to Medium instead of High while you work on the map? It means it won't look as sharp, but it may work just a bit faster.

I'm not sure if you will have to reverse that to High again before you export, but if you get a blurred export the answer to that might be yes.

You get the Display speed dialog by clicking the Display Speed Settings|CC2RESMODE| button on the left.

Alternatively you can try using 'Fixed bitmap quality' set to High instead of Very High, or even to Low.

I can't make the connecting symbols break so I'm assuming you mean the gaps at the corners? Those gaps are intentional and are meant to be covered by the tower symbols. The best way to draw them is by going in straight lines between the towers in a single click.

Also make sure that your default symbol scale is set to 1 in this imperial map, and that you haven't accidentaly adjusted the scale you are pasting them at by right clicking to check the current symbol scale setting.

EDIT: I also notice that the sheet effects on the SYMBOLS 3 (towers) sheet are a little off. If you make the shadow as long as the one on the SYMBOLS 2 (walls) sheet those gaps in the shadow will disappear.

Or alternatively, if you don't like the shadow overlap, you can copy the towers to the SYMBOLS 2 (walls) sheet so they cast the same contiguous shadow as the wall. in the shot below the towers are on thier correct sheet with a glow around them to raise them from the wall a little, but they are duplicated on the SYMBOLS 2 (walls) sheet for the shadow.

That's a really beautiful use of the style - a lovely map :)

Hi everyone! :D

This week Ralf will be using Symbol Set 6 "Isometric Cities" and the free monthly symbols by Mike Schley to build a fortress city under siege. Come along and see it live to join in the chat here on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj6rnnc3xv4

Or watch it here on the forum later if you prefer.

I have noticed that sometimes the sheet effects stop working for reasons I can't quite nail down to being because of A or B (if I could identify the cause I'd have reported it ages ago), but usually unchecking the Activate Sheet Effects checkbox, then checking it again and then clicking Apply will sort it out.

If that doesn't work please can you upload the FCW file, Elfling?

EDIT: to take a screen shot press the "prt sc" button and then paste in a comment by pressing CTRL+V

EDIT2: Also check if you have any layers hidden. If the MERGE layer in particular is hidden the effects aren't likely to work correctly if they work at all.

You've exploded it one time too many, Jim. Each of those lines is shattered into thousands of individual straight lines.

I recommend re-exporting the map and checking if you have multipolies or ordinary polygons before you explode anything. Then only explode the multipolies and only once.

How close a match to that original map are you hoping to get?

The reason for asking is I can make a few suggestions but none of the styles will exactly match that example. I don't want to go recommending a combination of lots of different styles from different annuals (which could get a bit expensive if you don't already own them), only to realise that it might have been ok to go with something less ambitious and a bit cheaper to do.