When in metric maps scale to the appropriate metric unit, which is km in overland and m in both city and dungeon

And in imperial maps scale to the appropriate imperial unit, which is miles in overland and feet in city and dungeon.

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You're welcome, Kevin :)

If you ask a specific question there is usually someone around to help, so don't get stuck simply because there seems to bo so much to learn. Also, if you've used the app before it comes back a lot faster than you might think.

I think Herwin gradually moved on to photography more than fantasy art over the years, so while it would be nice to see these styles expanded I think it's probably not that likely to happen.

@Royal Scribe The HW overland style is included with the core app these days.

Not unless you wanted to separate each of them out into an image per district and trace them that way. When you get to that amount of work it could be faster just to import the image and draw the districts by hand.

Going back to the tracing job on the outline...

The result seems a little pixelated to my eye compared with the original. This can happen if the image being traced is too low in resolution or if the edge between the opaque parts and the transparent parts are not well defined. If you want to improve on that result see if you can make the image both larger (more pixels in a bitmap editor) and more sharply defined.

You seem to be getting on really well. They are easy to read and attractive :)

I'm not able to explain it either, but I created a new sheet called "Backing sheet" and copied the polygon from TERRAIN MOUNTAINS 2 onto it with no sheet effects. It seems to be ok now. Let me know if it stops working, or doesn't work as well as I first thought.

If the symbol already exists in the template prior to the modifications, and has been there throughout (check Symbols in Map by clicking the left button above the symbol pane), the symbol will behave the same way it always used to with respect to which sheet it goes on.

To make it behave you first need to delete them all from the template by deleting them from the Symbol Manager, get the catalogue you just saved open in the symbols pane, and try again.

Unless you have specific reasons for wanting a symbol to be predefined in the template itself, it's better to have an empty Symbols in Map pane when you do the final save on your template.

Examples of symbols left in the template at the final stage can be examined in any style you are using by checking what's already there when you start a new map and before you do anything else. I believe some of the overland styles have things like compasses, titles, and scale bars predefined that way.

This way, the symbols you then paste from your carefully crafted catalogues will behave exactly as expected.