There's a brown and cream tiled floor in DD3 if that will do? There may also be a better fill in Bogies Mapping Objects, but I haven't got them installed at the moment to be able to see. This and other free sets are available through links on this page: Free Symbols & Artwork — ProFantasy Community Forum

I think the reason high contrast floors are generally not favoured is it makes objects in the room a little harder to see against such a loud background.

There's no harm in using free online seamless tiles if the map is for personal use only, but if you intend to publish your map do remember to check usage rights. If none are specified it is safest to err on the side of caution.

Interesting points, EukalyptusNow :)

Ricko - good idea. Maybe. We'll see if there is time. I also want to have a crack at a couple of bridges in these last 4 days.

Hi Everyone :D

In this mapping session Ralf will be showcasing the Ancient Realms overland style from the 2015 Cartographer's Annual.

Watch it right here:

Or on YouTube here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eztvF_dCPUk

Hope to see you there! :)

Thank you very much indeed for the Sort Symbols button, Ralf! :D

Quenten - I think there may be a bit of a confusion going on here The grid I made is a fill, not a regular snap grid. It's in the list of bitmap fills and can be applied by picking the "Grid SS6" fill and drawing a rectangle of that fill over the map on the GRID sheet.

No, there doesn't seem to be a ruins button, but since you can get to them easily enough with just 2 clicks as shown in the screen shot above I'm inclined to think that may have been just too much work in the time available to save a single click. Besides - I aboslutely LOVE the sort symbols button! That one saves many, many clicks - possibly hundreds or even thousands of clicks depending on the size of your city.

Thanks Wyvern! :D

I had to think a minute before I remembered, so I'm old enough to both remember them and then forget them again.

And to YouTube! LOL!

Unfortunately, there isn't a way to do that, but you don't really need to worry about the total nodes in the map as much as you do about the number of nodes in a single entitiy.

It is the complexity of the entity that causes more problems than anything else.

Thanks, and to you also, Jeff.

Happy holidays everyone! :D

30 minute shout! :)

That's a really good hand drawn shadow, and well worth the time and effort.