So when we attach a palette to a map we should have the MERGE layer active?

I might come back to that leaky pipe idea when I've fleshed out the rest of the set, Julian.

I hadn't really thought of this as a steampunk style as such. We'll see...

The best way of dealing with grids (as I understand it because I don't use VTT), is to leave them out of the final export from CC3 but to add a 5ft square of a solid colour somewhere it won't be in the way and use it to scale the map to the VTT grid.

I think it must have been one of those moments when the eyes miss a letter. Julian was on about brass earlier.

Hi everyone! :D

This week, Ralf will be taking another look at mapping a town in a heavily wooded area, partly continuing from an earlier video on Symbol Set 6 - Cities of Schley.

Come along and join in the live chat on YouTube here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEDSYrFRu1I

Or you can watch it here on the forum if you prefer (though there's no live chat here)

I think those use the symbols in area, in which case they are affected by the default symbol size in the map.

Unfortunately, changing the default symbol scale won't change the existing forests you've drawn. It will only affect the new ones, so you may have to backtrack and redo the existing ones. Here I drew one jungle at the default symbol scale for this map on the left, then doubled the default symbol scale and drew the forest on the right.

You get to the default symbol scale setting by clicking the Drawing Properties button |CC2PRESETS|

Changing the default symbol scale will also change the default symbol scale for all the other symbols you place after changing it.

30 minute shout :)

@JulianDracos Sorry - I meant your FCW of the map you are having problems with.

There is a way to fake a smooth-topped bevel.

If you have Darklands overland it's set up using a white glow and a black shadow on the WATER sheet of that style, though for some reason I had to increase the width of the second glow from 2 to 5 units when I reopened my example map.

The bevel is 'cast' onto the land by the water, which is on top of the land.

The effects that create the illusion are the last two in the list.

However, I appreciate this may not be practical in a battlemap.

What I've suggested is basically a replacement of the standard bevel, but using the bevel to get the shape to draw.

As for the issue more generally - artefacts are likely to occur with quite a few of the effects if the polygon extends a long way outside the edge of the rendered area, since some of them rely on the render engine being able to 'see' the whole polygon. A small distance outside the map is ok, but once you get beyond a certain distance away it all goes a bit wrong.