Very sad to hear of his passing. His memory will live on in his maps for me.

Hi folks! My apologies, but I have to cancel the live video for tonight. There is a bit of a bug going around here, and my voice has been affected since last night. It's in no shape for an hour of talking.

The problem seem to the brightness of the Texturize effect, which you've set to 100%. That removes all the shadow. Try setting it to 80% or something like that.

That looks a bit like an installation with insufficient rights (non-admin). Are you running CC3+ on a Windows account with reduced rights?

As a first thing, I'd try to run the latest update for CC3+ (update 28) . Download it from your registration page, right-click the file and choose "Run as Administrator" to execute it. Does that help?

If not, I would recommend a reinstall, making sure you also run the setup for CC3+ by right-clicking the file and choosing "Run as administrator" to execute it.

Bu you can limit "Fill Basin with Lakes" by selecting an area first, right? That seems to work for me if I don't want to do it across the whole map.