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.

Solid 10 is a semi-transparent bitmap fill, which should already exist in the style template (if it doesn't, just shout and I will explain how to get it there). It's intended as a shadow.

That's interesting about the typo. Thanks for letting us now. I will notify Tech Support so that it can be put right for future users.

Nice work, Jim :)

I have a whole infrastructure of folders within both my USER folders. They're useful in the Symbols User folder, but critical in the Bitmap folder, or you end up loading about 50 bitmap fills you don't want or need in that particular map along with the 5 that you do

If you already have FT3 you can update to FT3+ for free. Or if you don't have FT3 at all, when you buy it you should also get the One Day Worldbuilder packaged with the app. That will help you draw your own world from scratch. The Supplementary Notes are the ones for that.

Just so you can see it properly, here is an extract of the map. It's not a parchment texture, as you can see, but a bitmap export from a free app called Wilbur (instructions on how to produce these are included in the ODW), used as a background image for the a CC3 map.

Hello Courynn :)

Do you have the Tome of Ultimate Mapping? If you do, the complete 'how to' on varicolour symbols has it's own section starting on page 111.

That is probably the easiest way to learn the process, though you can easily ask again if you get stuck, or don't have the Tome.

That looks like an interesting map :)

There are lots of different ways of doing a glow, so I will tell you mine, and others will probably tell you theirs. Which you use is up to you.

I would draw the purple polygons with a smooth poly on their own sheet, and on that sheet I would add a reasonably large blur to soften the edge, and then a Blend Mode set to Screen.

If you are interested in creating a heatmap Jason Payne wrote a good article on that not so long ago right here: https://rpgmaps.profantasy.com/overland-heatmaps-with-cc3-by-jason-payne/

Yes, you could do that - alternate the contour and bevel sheets, so that you have a giant bevel sandwich. That might not match up entirely either.

There is a thread somewhere on the forum where (I think it was one of @WeathermanSweden's) I think the hill shading was exported from FT3+ and used in CC3+ to provide a perfect result. However, this is a new tool that emerged with the publication of FT3+, and neither Ralf nor I have had the time to play with it just yet.

Can you post the FCW so we can have a look at that?