Do they render to an image output like that?

Yes. She's done work for Wizards of the Coast, and a whole load of other big games companies. Really nice person and a great artist.

In case you are wondering - yes, those are genuine pencil/ink and watercolour on real paper.

The user manual explains how it works

The ODW explains how to get a particular set of results, using the tools available, and assumes prior knowledge of the user manual.

It starts about 10 minutes in from the current start. That's the raw video for now.

You're welcome :)

Oh, don't worry about the text. I seem to have done quite a job of it myself!

Ah. Sorry Julian - I got the toggle the wrong way around.

Now you've got it working you can experiment with other lighter parchments, or reduce the opacity of the Blend Mode.

Whichever - if you are wanting to print your map eventually on specialist paper or into a book, you would probably want to produce it without the parchment effect.

No, it's perfectly correct.

The forest drawing tools in the published version all draw much better forests than I had designed.

If you check the fills you will see that there are 5 forest textures I made. Originally, I also made 5 forest drawing tools that used those textures, placing each one on a sheet of its own to allow them to be blended together using Edge Fade Inner on each one.

The drawback to this technique is that even though you can draw whole forest worlds really quickly, every edge has to be carefully decorated with single trees to bring the forest to an end. There is a small example patch of textured forest in the example map I made.

So this is more a case of the artist designing things one way, and the publisher realising there is a much better way of doing things, while leaving the artists original sheets and textures in situ to allow people to chose how to do their forests.

You do it better than I can, Ricko :)

Well done :)

It works to a point, but it looks better if you put the ones that go around the top of the shape on a symbols sheet underneath the terrain fill. That's what I did with the example map. It's a bit fiddly, though.

I had one of those, but it died when Win 10 came along.