Thanks

I had to watch the first part a couple of times to revise what was said in that session, and I just caught it at 2x speed (trying to work this out fast for you). Ralf mentions that he already has some lighting effects set up in the sheets just before he switches on the Activate Lighting. That is why he gets a reaction from the map, and you don't.

There are two lighting sheet effects used to make a lighting setup. The first is Wall Shadow, Point Light Setup, and is used on any sheet where there are objects or shapes that you want to cast a shadow. You can adjust the Shadow length on this effect so that tables and chairs cast shorter shadows and walls cast infinite shadows.

The Wall Shadow, Point Light Finalize finishes the setup. Any sheet above the sheet with this final effect on it won't be affected by the lighting setup, and will appear as if light by ordinary daylight. That can be useful for the frame of the map and titles and labels, etc.

You will need to add these sheet effects (as many of the setup effects as you need on different sheets, but just one of the finalize effects) before you see a response to the activation of the lighting.

@jslayton LOL! And thank you :D I think I will leave them as they are for now, because you are right - darker and they lose the arched feel ;)

@mike robel Thanks Mike :) I'm sorry to hear you really don't like snow all that much! I think you aren't alone, though. I love the beauty of a snowy scene, but I'm one of those people who get near-frostbitten fingers the moment I step outside.

It may be that you have too much fractalisation going on, since those kinds of artefacts tend to happen when there are nodes too close together.

If you have thousands of nodes when you use Info List on the entity (just to make sure I'm right about that), try using the keyboard command SIMPLIFY to reduce that node count. Even if you use quite a small factor the command will at least remove the nodes that are causing the artefacts.

If SIMPLIFY is the answer, delete the wall or the floor that you didn't simplify, and use change like drawing tool to replace the missing part identical to the simplified shape.

That's not possible because those symbols are bitmap images created by the artist and the linework is an integral part of them. I recommend either making the rivers and roads thinner, or the mountains larger.

Looking good, Hans :)

I very much hope you are well onto the road of recovery right now, though!

Sounds like a really interesting idea. I'm looking forward to seeing it :)

Hi Everyone! :D

In this week's Live Mapping Session Ralf will be presenting the February issue of the Cartographer's Annual 2022, with Pär Lindström's beautiful new "Book of Maps" style.

Come along and join in the discussion, or watch later :)

Type DELAYDRAWSYM and hit enter.

It should be set to 1 by default.

Type 0 (zero) and hit enter.

Then redraw.

That was 8 years ago, now. Today we have a lot more commands for things like this.

The shortest way is just to add the missing bit if there is a gap, hide all other sheets but the LAND sheet, pick the properties of the land, and then use the keyboard command TRACED to select them all and join them all into one by automatically tracing all the way around the whole lot. Delete the separate bits of land and you will be left with just the one part.

It's nearly there roflo. If you erase around the edge of each of the cloud symbols in an uneven way (in GIMP/PS or similar app) so that there are no more sharp edges, and it should work a bit like a PS brush, but in CC3.