Open the palette (left below) and pick colour 6, then click Define Color. That opens the Color dialog. You will need to click on the magenta in the Custom colours block in that dialog to see the details on the right.

Red: 255, Green: 0, Blue: 255.

Hex is a little more tricky. I used Blender to create the maximum red-blue colour, and read the Hex from the text box at the bottom, so I don't know for sure if this is correct.

Hex: FF00FFFF (those are zeros, not letter 'o')

EDIT: I have a distant memory of trying to do something like your idea a few years back. I can't really remember if it worked or not. How are you going to use these symbols?

Here is a really time intensive solution. It's only a solution if you want to spend the time doing it.

Add a new sheet called SHADOWS or somesuch logical name, then draw a black polygon that is the full extent of both of those shadows. Move the sheet in the list to a position where it is drawn below the floor level, then add a small blur effect and a transparency effect and turn off all the shadows you've just traced on the other sheets. The idea is to replace all the shadows from all the different sheets with one general shadow.

I'm not having the same problem as you, so maybe we are doing it slightly differently to each other. Here is how I would import an MDR file. Is this also how you are doing it?

Use New from the File menu.

Pick Binary File and click Next.

This opens the Binary Data dialog.

Hit Chose Elevation File and in the following dialog (also called Binary Data), navigate to your MDR file

Remember to change the file type at the bottom of the Select Binary Altitude File dialog to MDR Files (*.mdr).

Pick your MDR file and click Open. I have used the example MDR file in CA155, which if you have that annual can be found here: ProgramData\Profantasy\CC3Plus\Annual\Issue 155 - The One Day Worldbuilder\Jerion\Jerion complete.mdr

Whether you have picked the CA155 example or your own MDR file, the file name and it's path should now have been added to the Binary Data dialog. Note that this is an absolute file path. That will be important at the end of this process.

Clicking OK takes you back to the first Binary Data dialog, but with your chosen MDR file named across the middle.

Hit Next, and then in the Summary dialog click Finish.

Now your world should appear.

Because the filepath is an absolute reference, moving or deleting the MDR file will cause the FT3+ world to lose it's data source, so it is best to then burn the height data into the file using Burn In to Surface in the Tools>Actions submenu, then save the .ftw file. This will prevent the data going missing if you move or delete the source MDR file.

Please try this process yourself, and then let me know if it worked this time.

Thanks.

In tomorrow's live mapping session Ralf will be taking a look at the Random City command and how it can be used to create a small town map very quickly.

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As Don suggested above, sheet effects would help a lot as well. Before adding any more sheet effects, maybe check first that the Activate Sheet Effects box is checked in the Drawing Sheets and Effects dialog |CC2SHEETS| so that any effects already on the WALLS sheet will appear. I suspect they might not be active, since I can't see any shadows or glows in the shot you showed us.

You can make the effects stay on for that map by opening the Display Speed Settings dialog|CC2RESMODE| and checking the Effects are on when loaded box. Save the map after you OK that setting.

EDIT: Most recent templates have that setting checked by default. It's only the older styles where it's not turned on.

This week in live mapping, Ralf will be creating a building floorplan in the style of the latest Annual (Kevin Goebel's Fantasy Town and Inn), using a combination of various styles.

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To me, FT3 is a way to find and/or sculpt new worlds, rather than detail existing ones. It's quite a lot harder to use if you already have lots of ideas already set in concrete.

It might be easier to start this in Campaign Cartographer by creating a world sized map (each map unit is either a mile or a km), and drawing the predefined parts of the world as simple land shapes using the native land drawing tool. That way you can try out land shapes for the rest of your world relatively quickly, rather than sculpting and resculpting in FT3 several times over, which takes much longer.

Well, I was looking at both the desert trees and thinking that with ngplant if I could just get one about right a few tweaks with phototropism and inclination would give me the other one, so I might be able to do a couple of Joshua trees and some Dracaena Cinnabari - but quickly add to that comment that I'm not entirely sure this is going to work.

I'll give it this evening and see if I can make this strange finger thing look a bit like one or the other of them. Think positive thoughts! This is very much how the saguaro symbols started out.

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