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Sue Daniel (aka 'Mouse')
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  • Marine Dungeon - a Cartographer's Annual development thread

    Thanks :)

    You will also be able to use any symbol you want from any set you want at any apparent depth you like, which may solve a lot of the issues people might otherwise have had with there not being a 'this' or a 'that' in the style itself.

    JimP
  • Installation problem Annual 2019

    I'm sure it wasn't intentional, grip. And all of us who have this annual have only the same as you.

    I have made several annual issues myself, and know there are certain images for mine that show things in relatively early stages of development that I later greatly improved.

    JimP
  • Change Landmass Borders to different styles?

    You're welcome :)

    And welcome to the forum too, Briwood :)

    Briwood
  • I can't change the thickness of my walls?

    Not stupid. Don't worry.

    First, by the look of the drawing it may be way too small. A map unit in a dungeon map represents 1 foot, so you may need to scale up that maze you are tracing before you go much further, so that there is a nice 5ft pathway, rather than one that looks more like about 1 or 2 foot. That will also help when you come to place symbols in the maze later on, since all the symbols at their default scale are set up to be the right size - as long as you have observed the 1 map unit per foot rule with the rest of the map.

    Then, if you want walls that will fit nicely between the 5ft pathways without taking up a huge amount of room themselves I suggest clicking the New button in that dialog, making yourself a new Wall, Cobble, 0.5 drawing tool and then clicking the Properties button and setting the line width to 0.5. Ok and save your way out of that, and you should have a decent wall drawing tool to suit the purpose.

    If you are unsure how to scale your trace image up to fit the scale of 1 map unit = 1 foot just shout, and we will explain.

    tofukiller
  • I can't change the thickness of my walls?

    You aren't wasting my time. I enjoy helping people :)

    Looking at the first image you want to make a maze that is 100ft square?

    Assuming this is what you want you can either rescale the image you have there (you can rescale things in CC3 relatively easily), or even more simple than that just delete that one and re-import the same image, but this time instead of clicking to define the extent type 0,0 in response to the first corner request in the command prompt, and hit enter. Then in response to the second corner prompt type 100,100 on your keyboard and hit the Enter key. That will give you the image pasted at exactly the right scale with the bottom left corner placed exactly at the origin.

    Having done it this way it should be much easier to place the walls themselves using the snap grid and your new wall drawing tool. the snap grid can be turned on by clicking the SNAP button at the bottom right of the window.

    JimP
  • May Symbol Challenge

    But... but... it's not May yet!

    (only joking)

    Great work, pkfrye :)

    pkfrye
  • Live Mapping: The Silver Mine

    Half hour shout everyone! :)

    Monsen
  • Eppi'Ka

    You can set the transparency using the Edge Fade Inner, which kills two birds with one stone.

    Silmenor
  • My first Darklands map

    That's a great first try with the style :)

    JimP
  • Hero symbols

    @Nacon451 - Yes, as long as the png file has a transparent background, though you might have to trim the individual photos so that none of them stick out at the corners from behind the circular frame symbol.

    Nacon451