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Sue Daniel (aka 'Mouse')
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  • WIP: Hiero's Journey

    That's promising to be a lovely map :)

    You can accidentally move symbols to a different sheet. They don't magically snap back to whatever SYMBOLS sheet they were placed on to start with.

    Calibre
  • Bright outside and dark rooms

    Great maps. Maybe show them as images so everyone can see?

    efenord
  • Live Mapping: Selecting and Editing in CC3+

    I know this is early for my usual 30 minute heads up, but this one is likely to be really useful for a lot of people.

    So here is the 50 minute call instead :)

    [Deleted User]
  • WIP A wayside camp on a high road

    I think it's a great map! :)

    What aren't you happy about?

    EdE
  • WIP A wayside camp on a high road

    If you mean the same as the grass on the left then this shouldn't be too difficult to sort out because the texture you want is already available in the map.

    Use the Change Properties tool |CC2MCHANGE| to change the fill.

    If there is a fill that you want to use that isn't already in the map we can do that too, but I won't clutter up your thread unnecessarily.

    EdE
  • Atlas Competition: Albërian continents

    Nicely done :)

    I think I like the top map more.

    Adrian Gonzalez
  • Losing Maps

    In addition to the advice I gave before about creating your own subfolder in Documents (7 September), I also find that it is really handy to save that folder in the Windows 'Quick Access' panel, so that it's only ever one click away.

    Enixine
  • WHY DOES IT DO THIS??!?!?!

    Transparency Acne is weird stuff. It only appears at certain zoom levels. If you zoom in and out you will see the dirt vanish and reappear. It tends to happen at closer zoom levels, which is unfortunate because most reasonably high res exports require the rendering engine to look at the map in a very closely zoomed way.

    JimP
  • How to edit an already-drawn coastline?

    The coastline is identical to the land, so if you copy the landmasses to the COASTLINE sheet using Copy to Sheet in the right click menu on the Sheets and Effects button |CC2SHEETS|, and then hide all sheets except the COASTLINE sheet, you can use change properties |CC2MCHANGE|to give the polygon a line width, change the fill to solid, and pick the colour you want. Giving a polygon a line width makes it hollow by default.

    If you deleted the COASTLINE sheet don't worry. You can recreate it by hitting the NEW button in the Sheets and Effects dialog, and moving it to a position just above the LAND sheet on that list (which will appear behind the LAND sheet in the map)

    Enixine
  • New Oxtail - WIP

    There are several ways of doing the mountain. It depends how important it is to the map and how much time you want to take in creating it.

    The quick and easy way is to use one or more sheets with a large and slightly smoothed "Bevel, Lighted" sheet effect, followed by an Edge Fade Inner sheet effect, and possibly a Blend Mode to blend the feet of the mountain into the flat ground. On that sheet you draw the extent of your mountain. I recommend using one of the transparent Solid fills, or a solid fill with transparency added in the Blend Mode.

    The more detailed way that takes a lot longer is to actually draw the thing with lines and patches of shading on the darker side.

    I will let you chose before I gallop off down a detailed description of either, or maybe someone else has an even better idea. There are always many ways of doing a thing in CC3.

    JimP