A beautiful map :)

Good luck with the writing.

CC3 provides a way to automate hex grid creation.

In the Draw menu find the "Hex or Square Overlay" option and click it.

This will show you a dialog like this one below, where you can specify which way up you want your hexes and how big you want them in map units. If your map is an imperial overland map this would give you hexes that are 6 mile hexes. In a metric map the same settings would give you hexes that are 6km hexes. In a city or dungeon map, 6 map units would be 6 feet in imperial templates and 6m in metric templates.

If the grid you create is wrong just delete it and try a different scale.

I hope that helps.

You should find it a lot easier to see where the moon should go once you've done that.

Your rivers are set to be colour number 14, which is towards the end of the top row of palette colours. Those top 2 rows aren't meant to be modified at all, so before we put the changing colour problem right it's best if we use Change Properties to make all the rivers some other colour that doesn't appear in those top 2 rows.

I picked a dark purple swatch near the bottom of the palette (number 227) and changed 227 to be your specified RGB shade, then attached the palette to the map and saved it. Then I changed the properties of the rivers to be colour 277. Let me know if this has cured the problem.

There are lots of bits of river in this map. If I've missed any all you have to do is use Change Properties to make them colour 227.

When you open the palette you should see the altered colour.

60 minutes :)

Hi DoctorSweets :)

I can't see that you've done anything wrong there at all.

I recommend contacting Tech Support via the Support tab when you log into your account on the main webpage.

You could try altering the speed settings.

Right click the hourglass and pick Display Speed...

The default settings are:

But you can temporarily pick Fixed bitmap quality and Very high, if you need to see the fill styles in pin sharp resolution.

However, it's not recommended that you keep this setting on while you are working since the larger images being used for it will slow your map down.

You could use SCALE. I've just tried it and it works ok. You have to pick the scaling origin after Do It.

There's also SCALEXY if you want to scale the dimensions differentially. You must pick both scale origins with that one.

Nice work so far.

It's very much up to you how you develop your maps. I find it quite useful to leave it a couple of days if I'm not sure how to go forward. The moment you open it after a break like that you will know what you want to do.

I can't remember exactly why I did several shades of dune, but they look ok together. Real deserts are all kinds of colours.