That would be a really useful macro if you succeed.

This is only going to work for you if you are only using FT3 to get a decent shape and coastline...

Try visualising the oceans as the land masses.

I have extracted quite a few decent coastline patterns from FT3 by turning the land into the sea, and vice versa. Its not something you can do in the software (I don't think), but once you get your eye in tune with the idea you should find a few more appetizing outlines

What are your placeholders? Are they symbols, or polygons?

A particular symbol can be deleted using the Symbol Manager in the Symbols menu. Open the manager, pick the symbol you want to delete, and hit the delete button. That will remove all instances of the symbol from your map.

If your placeholders are polygons and are all on a unique sheet or layer you can hide all other sheets or layers and delete them en masse by box selecting with the delete tool.

If your placeholders aren't on a separate sheet or layer, you might have to use one of the many select options available when you pick delete and then right click in the map area.

You're welcome :)

Experimentation is a great way to find out what you can do with the sheet effects.

I had the CorelDraw 11 Suite. After that it got too expensive to carry on, though, so I ended up more or less abandonning digital art till I got CC3.

Here is the design quandry in a nutshell.

On the left is an actual tracing of a section of the Himalayan watersheds. That's the ridges separating the rivers.

In yellow in the middle was a sketch I did of a grossly simplified idea - the central ridge with side spurs. About the only thing it has in common with the Himalayas is that the nodes (where the ridges join) are only ever 3-way. This would be relatively easy to create a set of symbols to emulate, but it doesn't look very realistic.

In white on the right is something that will probably look better, but which is horrendously complicated to create as a 'lego set' of individual symbols that can be used interchangeably for infinite variety.

So of course I'm going to try and do something that will work like the white pattern without being too complicated to use.

I think it might just work, though, if I take each section of the main spine with a single spur, like this.

Can you please click the colour swatch in the top bar to reveal the palette, and take a screen shot for us, RyanosRealm?

The ODW was written several years ago now. Since then there has been a notable blog, a new version of FT3, and at least one Cartographer's Annual that relate to it and update things somewhat. If you show me your palette I will have a better idea of how to help you from where you are, rather than trying to work it out in my head.

Thanks :)

And I thought you were kidding me in the live stream chat! LOL!

LMAO!

And now I can't unsee it!

It's great to see work being done to expand on Jim's gifts to us.