No problem. I do tend to continue thinking about things. It's a sort of natural progression of thought.

When you get as far as adding symbols there may be a problem with getting rid of the white bits, but there are at least two ways around that.

I have to go out for a little while right now, so I'm hoping I've given you enough to be getting on with for an hour or two.

The connecting hedges should work ok just drawing them by stright line sections around a curve as long as the radius of that curve isn't too small. I think (but can't remember, and I'm only up for a brief moment right now in the middle of the night) that I might have shown them in an example map of a circular maze.

If you have the 2018 Cartographer's Annual I did a very small collection of varicolour flowering shrubs and fruit bushes for Asian Towns, though there aren't very many and they aren't my best so far, so I wouldn't buy the annual just for them if you haven't already got it.

Another place to look for things like this might be some of the other free collections from Vintyri, though I don't know what they contain these days in any great detail. https://forum.profantasy.com/discussion/10443/free-symbols-artwork

If you get stuck and I'm not around there will undoubtedly be help from others. I'm not the only person who can work this out with you :)

Oh yes, I see. I got the wrong end of the stick again. Sorry!

In answer to the actual concern you have about the regional borders - you should be able to draw them and trace the coastline just as before. The trace tool will pick up the edge of the cutout polygon as easily as it picked up the land polygon in your earlier map.

CC3 requires that you click to place nodes, or to start and end a Freehand Sketch line. It's not an app where you can just draw things with a constant line without any clicking, so the motion of the pen in CC3 is more tapping than drawing. This isn't the way other apps work with a tablet, so it can take a lot of getting used to if you've used tablets in other apps before now.

It might be a good idea to see if you can borrow a tablet from a friend just to see if you feel comfortable with the way it works in CC3 before you make any purchase.

As for user manuals, most tablets come with their own software including a startup and settings assistant. Even my little Wacom has such things despite being the second smallest and cheapest one on the market.

30 minute shout :)

It's looking really great. You're rapidly becoming a really good mapper :)

Hi everyone! :D

In this week's live mapping session Ralf is going to be venturing into the mountains north of Mirkwood to expand the big Wilderland map.

Come and join us live on YouTube here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUvunnCDbD0

Or watch it here if you prefer.

Hello ironwedge.

What are your export settings, and what kind of bitmap are you trying to export?

Yes, it might be a continuation of that older problem. Ralf mended it recently when I couldn't get it to work myself, but maybe that particular fix only worked for a subset of users who have their systems set up just like mine. We won't know until yours is sorted out too.