This week, Ralf will be showing us the latest free symbols for his beautiful Handdrawn Fantasy style, and discussing the use of Bitmap fills versus Symbol Fills for larger terrain features.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN7JeJs-BEQ

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To me, FT3 is a way to find and/or sculpt new worlds, rather than detail existing ones. It's quite a lot harder to use if you already have lots of ideas already set in concrete.

It might be easier to start this in Campaign Cartographer by creating a world sized map (each map unit is either a mile or a km), and drawing the predefined parts of the world as simple land shapes using the native land drawing tool. That way you can try out land shapes for the rest of your world relatively quickly, rather than sculpting and resculpting in FT3 several times over, which takes much longer.

Awesome, because you managed to finish it, but good maps as well :)

I think the video you remember might be this one?

@Frosty No, I think this is mostly Forest Trail and Creepy Crypts.

The overland map is Spectrum Overland.

This week in Live Mapping, Ralf will be taking a look at, and starting a modern floorplan using the Dracula Dossier style from the 2015 Cartographer's Annual (Volume 9).

Come along and join in the fun and the chat with us here on Youtube:

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

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Well, I think it boils down to the fact that the colour key cutout colour is fractionally different to the colour used to draw the rivers.

The Color Key is set to be colour 95 - the end of the second blue line, but the colour of the river drawn in the map is actually colour number 79, which is the colour at the end of the third blue line.

To cure it, either edit the Color Key to be the same colour as the river (colour number 79), or change all the rivers to be the colour of the Color Key cutout colour (95).

I'm not sure how this has come about, or why no one has noticed it before, but if it is wrong in the template I will let Ralf know.

This week in Live Mapping, Ralf will be creating a star system map in Cosmographer's Traveller System style.

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https://www.youtube.com/live/eM6dB2b1IBM

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You can use the Move, Scale, Rotate tool|CC2MOVE| to pick the image and move it. If you pick a key point in the image as your "move from point" (check the command line), and then use SNAP to place the map you should have perfect alignment on that one spot.

As for scaling, it depends which videos you watched as to whether you got the information you wanted. There are about 200 of them.

Here's a quick explanation by Ralf

And here is a more detailed explanation of the whole process by Remy - conveniently split into chapters.

About those line styles...

There was a blog, and I wasn't just imagining it, but it was a kind of advert for one of the Commands of the Week by Remy. So here is the link to that thread: