I think shovelled pathways may be more in the realm of dungeon scale, but I do have a sheet and tool for drawing hills that could be duplicated (both the sheet and the tool) and adjusted to draw smaller drifts.

When you use the command, what figure are you getting in response at the command prompt? Is is 4000000, or 40000000?

If it is only 4000000, type 40000000 and press enter to change the setting.

(I had to count those zeros several times! There are no commas to help you, but one is 4 million, and the other is 40 million)

Hello pabadger :)

The simplest way to do this is to Use the Land drawing tool to draw a third landmass that traces both of the existing ones. 

1. First, ensure that both those landmasses are made of straight polygons instead of smooth ones by right clicking the Fractalise button |CC2FRX|and picking smooth to straight. Use the tool to turn both landmasses straight. This may make it look slightly different if they happen to be smooth, but you can reverse the process using Straight to Smooth from the same right click menu on the new landmass when you are done tracing.

2. Pick the land drawing tool (preferably the straight one if there is a choice) and click once on any point of the land, then press letter T on your keyboard to enter tracing mode.

3. Pick the coast not far away from where you started, and then start the trace with a second click between where you started the line and where you indicated the trace operation. 

4. Drag the trace line to where the two landmasses join, making sure you don't trace any of that bit where it overlaps, and end the first trace by clicking there. Don't end the drawing. Just end the trace operation. Then press T again and start a second trace operation to trace all the way around the other landmass until you get back to the other side of the overlap.

5. Do a third trace to finish the job by completing the trace around the first landmass back to where you started. When you get there, that is the point where you need to end the third trace and then finish the drawing operation. 

Once the single landmass has been drawn in that single 3 part tracing operation you can delete the 2 older parts, and turn the coastline back to smooth if you prefer it that way.

Hi Simon :)

Both are good looking maps, though I recommend getting rid of the drop shadow on the text on the first top view map for the sake of clarity.

If this is an ebook you should really check what they both look like when they are reduced to the correct resolution for publication. Check in particular if the labels are legible.

If they are for a printed book (and unless the book is going to be printed in full colour), I recommend printing both of them the correct size in black and white to see what they look like. You might find that a black and white style is more appropriate in that case.

Click the open symbol catalogue button at the top of the symbol panel. Navigate to the Symbols folder and use the Explorer search bar to search for words like cupboard, or rack. You will get everything from every style you own 4 times over for each symbol because there are 4 different resolution images for each symbol. Give the search a chance to look in all the subfolders. For some reason it seems to stop after the first thing it finds and then after a few seconds it shows the rest of the results.

If you find something you want in the results right click it and pick 'Open file location' and go up one level to pick the catalogue file - the .FSC file. It will have the same name as the folder you were just in. That will open the right catalogue for the symbol you want.

Here's a checklist:

1. Check that the sheet with the parchment on it is on top of everything else (bottom of the sheet list).
2. Make sure you have a Blend Mode sheet effect on that sheet, and set it to Multiply and 100%
3. Type the command DELAYDRAWSYM and set it to 1

That should work, but if it doesn't shout again.

In this week's Live Mapping session Ralf will be doing something a little different. Please come along and join in with us as we watch Ralf make a Sci-fi Diorama using the Dioramas add-on.

If you wish to book a reminder click the link above hit the reminder button on the YouTube page.

We look forward to seeing you there :)

We're all generally available to everyone :)

Thank you, Remy :)

I didn't want to limit them to only ever being used in dense forest, so I didn't draw any trees in the symbols. To start with I put them on the same sheet as the tree symbols, but found they were being obliterated a bit too much by the trees after using Sort symbols in Map. There is no reason why they can't be more carefully placed (the trees that is) so that they aren't as obscured, but I lifted them above the canopy so that you could see what they really looked like.

They might do, but I haven't been checking it against Spectrum, and I know for certain that I have used a slightly lower angle to do this set where I sometimes find Spectrum a little too steep. It might work. You will have to try it.

I forgot to as well, so don't feel bad.

Thank you Jim :D

And congratulations to all the other prize-winners too :D