Yes, that would explain why I'm not familiar with it ;)

Wow, Wyvern! I must ask you to help me more with my own research!

Hi Doose :)

It's best to add hyperlinks to the world map that lead to continent maps, and for there to be links in the continent maps leading to regional maps... and so on down the chain.

The best current example of this technique is the Community Atlas.

I don't recommend trying the 'all in one map' method. There is a level of detail problem where a house described as a dungeon map will just be a messy splodge if you zoom out to view the city, and the city drawn with individual houses will be a similar mess if you zoom out to view the region. Your world map would be a mass of noise with all that detail included in it.

It is probably easier to edit them externally, since symbols don't respond to sheet effects that attempt to change their appearance. Only glows and shadows work on them.

You can use any image editor to alter them. Plenty are free. If all you want to do is change the colour intensity or make them darker, GIMP is as good as any.

Are you using the 4 resolutions - importing everything through the Symbol Manager and creating resolutions? If so, you will need to edit the VH image and reimport the symbol, recreating the other 3 resolutions. It's a lot faster than editing all 4 of each image.

That's the most difficult bit to get right, since most reference images don't show the head from directly above.

Oops!

Still having trouble with my typos...

Hi Everyone :D

In this week's Live Mapping session Ralf will be demonstrating the Tactical Maps style from the April issue of Cartographer's Annual 2022.

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

Congratulations Jim :)

You were right, Jim.

I just provided the screen shots that you couldn't really do on the phone anyway ;)

This is beautiful work, WVFaeryWoman :)

If there is anything you want to know about as you continue to work on your new style, just ask...