It should reduce your passes to about 3-4.

If it happens one day, that would be awesome! :)

For now, though, I've settled on an EFI combined with an Alpha Blur.

Thanks :)

Those are pine and deciduous.

This is tropical/deciduous (at the moment).

If you check the list of files you can import using Insert File in the Draw menu, it shows some types of CAD file, but I'm not sure how current those file types are. I'm assuming that this list is a list that has existed since the dawn of CC, so file types may have changed since then.

I got it to export with everything visible after I used SIMPLIFY on the land, set to zero. That removes any duplicated nodes right on top of one another and neatly trims all those hundreds of nodes you don't need outside the map all in one go.

It's still very slow to pan and zoom, though not quite as bad as before using SIMPLIFY on the land.

Try using it on the forests, and anything else you have in the map that isn't a smooth poly.

Incidentally, you don't need to go through all the rigmarole of doing a rectangular section if you are exporting the whole map. Use Restrict to map border and export an ordinarly JPEG bitmap. The frame is on the MAP BORDER layer and works just fine.

Remy taught me how to do it. Press SHIFT+the windows key+S, and then pick your spot with the mouse.

(This is Win 11. Don't know if it works in Win 10)

I think I like them better as well, though I want to add a few more details, either to the image or the map file.

While I'm developing my own kind of mapped mountain technique, I should make it known that I will do mirror versions of each symbol, since reflecting just the one original doesn't work well. Map files don't like being reflected. The whole style will look better if you don't mirror any of the symbols, but stay with everything the right way around.

Rotating and scaling is fine. Just resist the idea of mirroring things.

I think you should be able to use MIRCPY. It requires that you click twice to define a mirror line on the map. You will have to delete the original and move the copy into position.

Thanks Don and Wyvern :)

I've taken a screen shot of that initial image showing the different types and stuck it in the file of reference material. That will be more useful for the regional version of the style. For me, this intial continental map style is more about the fact that this is a volcanic province and there are bumps on it - represented by the bevel ridges and the classic shield vocano cones.

I'm glad we've sorted things out a bit with the new terrain texture.

There are some handy live mapping sessions dealing with multi-level dungeon maps.

Try this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ani2oYh_dMg

Ralf generates a floorplan from a city building in the video, but you can generate a multi-level map by adding a number of levels to your new map in the New Map Wizard. After that the work is very similar.

Generally, if you start one from scratch using the New Map Wizard, you draw the main walls and add the stairs to the ground floor level, and then copy those things to the other floors, altering them as you go if the building has different extents on higher floors. Ralf covers copying in the video.