Ah, I see what prompted the suggestion now.

The test roof was a straightforward test of the texture intended as the background for the rest of the detail.

Here you can see the original ring of test house, along with a more advanced test (the larger building)

Remember that these are basically snowy versions of the Darklands City buildings, so the thatch houses will have a hint of the underlying thatch, and decorative herringbone near the ridge. The tiled houses will have a different pattern, where I have notcied that the snow tends to be thinner and melt first over the joins between the tiles. Other textures include working out where the snow will stick and where it won't on things like the arched metal dormers for the tile houses, and so on.

Try opening the Drawing Properties dialog |CC2PRESETS| and clicking Attach to drawing, then saving the map.

If you also check the second box below that one to tell CC3 to carry out the macro after the drawing tool has been used, you do get a result, but then you get a new rash of error messages. Since the result is a lot of trees that have white backgrounds I think that is probably why it seems to have been abandoned as a bad idea.

However, now that we have sheet effects, if this macro worked without generating error messages, there is a way to blend the parchment texture over the top of the trees and get rid of the white.

Lets see what TS have to say...

Hide all but the BACKGROUND sheet and try zoom to extents again.

That should bring you back to large enough to see the map.

Then show each sheet in turn and hit Zoom to extents until you find out which sheet has the entity that is causing the app to zoom that far out. The chances are that you have a node or a symbol way off in the distance (more likely to be a node). Once you identify the sheet it's on you should have a chance to work out what it is.

If none of that helps, shout again.

Hi Everyone! :D

In this week's Live Mapping session Ralf will be talking about the often neglected map border, its function in CC3+ and how to make it look good

Come along and join in, or watch later if you can't see it live :)

@Shessar - I think you are probably right about the rafters, and thank you :) I think I remember a map you once did where you were trying to create a snowy scene not a lot unlike this one. Its been in the back of my mind for a while now ;)

@JimP - yes, that's definitely more of a spring theme than a winter one, but I know what you mean. Towards the end of the last inch of snow we had here it hung around in the shade for at least 2 weeks longer than it did in the sunny places.

Thank you very much, Jeff :)

Once again the ridges are nearly exposed, but I think that in order to keep the tiled houses interesting I will have to assume that the snow of Winter Village is not so dry, and expose a little more than that.

DoubleDouble - this is very true, but unfortunately I can't predict which way around any of the houses will be pasted, so I will keep the coverage about the same on both sides.

They really are below the landmass.

The sheets are in the order in which they are rendered, which means the RIVERS sheet is rendered before the LAKES sheet, and both are rendered before the LAND sheet. Move the LAND sheet up to just underneath the NAVIGATION LINES sheet and you should be ok.

That's pretty good :)

The only problem I can see is that the furniture now looks too perfect compared to the floor.

I don't do Discord. I like helping people, but having to explain everything every single day all over again for the rest of however long I am able to help simply doesn't appeal. Forums are better repositories for knowledge. That way I only have to write one good response and then I can refer to it after that, meaning that I have time to make new art as well.