Wow!

That's so cool!

I like it!

I am also using spectrum style to make a "small map".

I am sure there is a super well done video tutorial for that, or an article by Remy @Monsen, or a section in the Tome... So what I'll show you below may not be the best way.

1. BTW, for placing less dense forest I created a new drawing tool. To do that I first went to the "Symbols in area..." command from the Draw menu.

Here you can decide the settings (eg. a small % ,Chance to Place to have less dense symbols... Or the scale and size).

Once you are done save the filling style (a .symfill file). Now you have a "filling style" (not sure that this is the proper therm) that you can use to create yout drawing tool:

In the Drawing tool menu:

Go to the Advanced>>

Here you can first select a tool similar to the one you need. Here I used the Woods Decid

Now click on New and chose a wise name (mine is Terrain Default Woods Decid SF, whis stay for "sparse forest).

Next step will be to click on Command to excecute, which will open this:

On the right of SYMFILLOAD replace the path and the .symfill file name with the one you created at the beginning. In the picture above you can see the one I created for the new drawing tool. I do not have the preview of the tool but it works. 😉

To whoever is more expert than me:

Please, feel free to correct, update and improve this short tutorial!

Thanks, @Wyvern!

Both are suuper good suggestions! I'll give a try and post here the result.

They may indeed be farming on the belly of a dragon: all the area is known for warm water springs!😄

Nice map @Ricardo380!

You really created a style to use the styles!

Fantastic!

Which 90s horror game will you play?

Hi @Raiko ! Thanks.

The text is added within CC3+. I then used the super light "FastStone" image viewer to add a bit of sharpness, contrast and saturation (suuper basic stuff).

Just in case someone will read this discussion and doesn't know it, the same effects can be obtained using the effects within CC3+:

The spatial matrix effect for the sharpness,

and the RGB matrix effect for the color stuff

Thanks @roflo1 !

That's a nicely done and useful post!

Hi!

Both very nice. I don't see much difference... Yet, I prefer A.

Hi!

What about using the symbols in area style? It works extremely well and you can customize it a lot... You can also create your own "Drawing tool" in few steps.

Yes! That and some trees and bushes and paths. 😉

Oh no no. The plan is to make some rocky islands with, probably, some buildings.