How about this ocean version? It's the same texture, but with the pattern broken up a bit.

@caveCrawler Do you mean like this?

Remy Monsen wrote a blog explaining the process here:

I'm also quite sure he did a Live Mapping session on the same subject, but I'll have to go find it and come back to add it later.

I found one by Ralf. Maybe it was this one I was thinking of...

Well, today's progress is quite un-pretty compared to that, but this is a sewer after all.

Much more work to do to make things look solid and real, and I'm not really sure about the paving slabs either side of the channel.

This week, Ralf is back with a demonstration of how to make a map using the March Annual issue - the new overland style "Birdseye Continental".

Come along and learn how it's done first hand and join in the chat here:

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

Or watch it here on the forum if you prefer*

*This thread isn't monitored during the live show, but is a place you can ask questions if you miss it.

You could try selecting by layer?

Pick the delete tool and right click in the window, then pick Layer. You will be prompted for the name of the layer in the command line. Once you have entered the layer name on your keyboard you should then see in the command line how many entities are on that layer.

Best to check what they are before you go ahead and delete them, though.

Thanks Ede. That's a really neat map :)

I've just got the small drain or central channel connecting symbol working properly, but you've reminded me I need a bridge as well as various planks etc.

It's possible you have an effect in the Whole Drawing category. In this map I have an RGB Matrix Process turning the entire map grey

To check your own map click the Whole Drawing radio button at the top of the effects panel. Anything there will affect the entire map.

Hi Everyone :)

In this week's Live Mapping Session Ralf will be showing us how to add a parchment background to an existing map, and how to use the tools provided by the June issue of the 2007 Cartographer's Annual.

Come along and join in the fun :)

Thank you! :)

All the terrain colours are drawn on the same sheet and blurred into one another before they are blended to the parchment background. So the answer is kind of yes and no. Yes it matters if you suddenly cover all your mountain background with lots of green lowland grass colour, but no, because you can easily bring the mountain background polygons back to the front using the bring to front tool.

Similarly, if you wanted to put a general greenish background behind what you have already done to cover all the white (not saying you should, but just as an example), you could draw that map-wide extent and then send it to the back of that sheet.