Have fun! :)

Hi Everyone :)

In tomorrow's live mapping session Ralf will be expanding upon the City Block map pack by Jimmy Medina (aka DM Geezer Jim), recently published as the May issue of this year's Cartographer's Annual.

You can come along and join us live on YouTube on 4 May 2023 (or watch the recording at a later date), here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4B24g61lMw

Or you can watch it here on the forum if you don't like YouTube

It may be that the techniques Ralf uses can be applied to any style. We just don't know yet. Not even I know what the show will contain until it happens ;)

It's looking great :)

The major labels for things like island names and seas look about right for the size of map you have uploaded here, but may be a little large for all the settlements. It may be worth making them just a little smaller if you can.

30 minute call :)

Without knowing how you have imported the new symbols it's a bit difficult to say.

When you say imported them, how do you mean? Did you use the Symbol Manager or some other means?

The Edge Striping effect can be scaled if you edit the effect. That will make whichever one you use quite a lot bigger.

You can also make your own quite easily by opening one of the existing ones in GIMP or some similar bitmap editor and saving/exporting the png as a new filename.

When you say they aren't there, where are you looking for them? In the first dialog select Cities, and Decide settings myself.

Then CD3 should be available from the list in the second dialog.

I hope that helps.

You're welcome :)

I would create a new line style and give it an appropriate name. Remember to uncheck all the boxes.

Line styles are saved with the drawing, unfortunately, so if you want to use this line in more than one map it might be worth creating a crude 'template' containing the line style.

Alternatively, if you copy and pretend to paste an existing grid from the original map to a new map that will transfer the line style to the new map. That's the same kind of pretend paste you do when transferring fills from one style to another. You press ESC just before you paste it.

Hi everyone! :D

In this video Ralf will delve into some of the more rarely used map styles in Cosmographer 3 - 3d Starmaps and overview Galaxy maps.

Come along and join in the chat live on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uKHN-JVPlg

Or watch it here if you prefer: