To create a new sheet just hit the Add... button on the left of the sheet list in the Sheets and Effects dialog. Then move it up or down the list to the best position.

To copy the sheet effects across from the existing LAND FEATURES sheet, pick the existing sheet and select the effects in the right panel, then hit the Copy button to the right of that panel. Select the new sheet and hit the Paste button.

You can move polygons or symbols to other sheets a number of different ways. I use the Change Properties tool as the fastest way, but you can also use Move to Sheet in the right click menu of either the Display Speed Settings button, or the Sheets and Effects button.

Hi Everyone :)

In tomorrow's Live Mapping Session Ralf will be mapping a rank and file Napoleonic-era battle, based on the Napoleonic Battle Maps style from the Cartographer's Annual Vol 3.

Come along and join in the fun, or watch later :)

If you can't get rid of the layer is it really worth scrapping everything to start all over again?

Layers aren't anywhere near as important as sheets. Most of the time I completely ignore them.

Hi Everyone! :D

In this week's live mapping session Ralf will be taking a look at an old Annual issue, inspired by the cartography of Erwin Raisz.

Come along and join in the live chat here on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zZGWKT2pN4

Or watch it here on the forum (ps. there's no live chat right here)

Should the top end of a carnivorous root be blunt and black in section like a pillar, fade out, or something else?

They only really work at the default scale of 1.

You can use them at other scales, but not as a connecting symbol. To do that you would need to right click on the map while you have the symbol on your crosshair, and set the bottom two checkboxes like this, then paste them individually.

The location of any bitmap file is given in the Fill Style dialog box in the 'file' window.

If you want to add them to another map it's probably easier to use Insert file in the Draw menu, and pick the old map you mentioned but press ESC just before you paste it. Doing it that way will also import the correct scale from that old map.

Do you mean this one?

It's very old now, and the PDF is probably not that easy to follow. It was written in a terrible rush to solve a particular problem someone else was having. However, if this is what you meant it should be possible to translate the use to straight stairs.

I just checked the link in the pdf - still working. I did all of this 5 years ago, so I had to make sure.

There's a very subtle difference. You can see the edge of the water a little more clearly.

How about just a plain old black polygon with one EFI set up like this?

Or even that plus the Glow Blur Radius doubled to 0.5?

Alternatively, how about importing the water texture from another dungeon style?

Sinister Sewers doesn't use the usual wall cutting tools, so I think you would be all right doing that - as long as you realise it would become quite difficult to separate entities by layer. You would have to separate them by sheet instead.

However, to separate the levels you might wish to have separate sets of sheets instead of layers, so you can cast a shadow (for example) on the lower levels from the upper ones. Layers don't give you that power.