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.

Don't start moving them, just yet, and check you have sheet effects turned on.

They're on the correct layer, though layers don't have anything to do with the way something appears on the map. It's the sheets and their effects that are more important.

When you move something like this it will create it's own new sheet if that named sheet didn't exist in the new map to start with, but it's created without any effects. Or, if the named sheet was already there it will have it's own effects that may not do quite the same thing.

Find out which sheet they are on by using List in the Info menu, then check the effects on that sheet. If there are any there delete them and copy the effects across from your older map using the copy and paste buttons to the right of the effects panel once you have highlighted them all. You will have to have both maps open at the same time to do that, but you can open the older map by double clicking its file icon without causing your new one to close.

EDIT: I notice that you have hidden the SCREEN. That leaves the bright green map border (the one that CC3 uses to define exports) visible around the edge. It might be a good idea to show the SCREEN sheet, but to use change properties on it to turn it solid white if you want there to be a white border around the edge as shown in your picture above. I think I froze the SCREEN layer that its on, so to work with it you will have to unfreeze the layer. Refreeze the SCREEN layer once you are done with it. Doing that will give you the white border without the green line.

The best way to see how it works is to open a drawing and add a Color Key effect to a sheet that has a polygon you want to cut a hole in. Add a Color Key sheet effect to that sheet, noting the cutout colour (magenta or colour 6 by default). Then draw a magenta poly representing the hole you want to cut on the same sheet as the poly you want to cut the hole in (the one with the Color Key effect) and hit refresh. I didn't understand it to start with, but trying it out suddenly started a whole lot of little sparks in my mind as I saw what I could do with it.

A Color Key will also cut holes in city symbols, though not in symbols in overland or dungeon maps. It works like an inverted mask.

@db2000 - sorry for hijacking your thread just a bit there!

You're probably right. It sounds like a form of transparency acne. Try switching out one of the fills (presumably the grey ones) for a slightly different shade of grey and see if that helps.

If you ever want to get rid of that part you could try adding more terrain fills on a sheet above the cliffs with a small edge fade.

I've just tried it myself.

CTRL+Q works fine, unless you accidentally release the Q before you release the CTRL button. That's when it scales things instead of moving them.

Another thing that might work is a Color Key sheet effect if you are willing to carefully draw a cutout poly along the top edges of the cliff.

It's more a collection of maps this time, AEIOU, along with the core app - naturally. All the CC maps are provided in hi res png format alongside the FCW file where it is available.

Not all of the maps are CC. I helped to process a very small section of the collection and saw some really beautiful hand drawn/painted maps by Alyssa Faden among others.

The CC maps have been rendered both with and without labels/grids.

I really can't answer that definitively, pconophy, since I only saw 4 folders of just one set.