That desert? edge screams for a switch to smooth, and a little bit of edge fade to make the transistion less harsh.

As you yourself conclude, the main issue is that many of these things are defined as percentage of view width, while the actual preview window is a fixed size, so this can happen with extremely large maps like this.

So in short, nothing is broken, just a view issue.

You can actually change the size of the preview windows, if you hit that advanced button in the drawing tool window, you'll have access to the sample width setting, which is the size of the preview, just bump this up a few notches. Do note that this is a per-tool setting.

At this stage, the bitmaps may look more pixelated than desired too, so you may wish to use :CC2RESMODE: to force a higher resolution for the display (Note that this can affect performance)

This is one of the situations where it isn't that difficult to do, but the explanation may look a bit involved at first. This is a bit extra complicated because I see you are using a custom version of the drawing tool, but you haven't set the sheet and layer settings for the outline properly.

Connecting it will require a bit of manual work since you cannot use the edit feature of the drawing tool, since that will just extend it from one side, but not connect the other. There is also the complication that regular polygons cannot have holes in them, but connecting it up will end you up with a hole in your floor poly immediately to the left of where you are connecting up. There are a couple of ways to do this, but some node editing and a multipoly is probably the way to end up at the desired result here. Keep in mind that a multipoly isn't editable with the drawing tools edit features, so this should be done when you are done drawing the system.

First, keep in mind that the wall line is a separate entity. We'll start by editing this one. To avoid editing the floors instead (easy to do when two entities overlap), start by hiding the BACKGROUND (FLOOR 1) layer, this should leave you with just the wall entity.

Use change properties to move your wall entities to the WALLS sheet and the WALLS layer. If you find yourself unable to select it at this point, it is because it is on the HEX/SQUARE GRID layer, and that layer may be frozen. If so, you must first enter the layers dialog and unfreeze that layer.

Then use :CC2BREAK: on the wall to create a gap in both the upper and lower section where approximately where you want the joining segment to meet up. (When selecting an entity to break, the point you used to first select it on defines the part of the entity to keep)

Now, right click :CC2EXPLODE: and pick Path to Poly. You're going to use this twice, first on the small wall that goes around that little "hole" to the left of your marked area, then on the main wall going around the rest. This should leave you with two walls, one outer and one inner. If you are unhappy with the straight connecting lines, you can add some detail by using :CC2INSNODE: to add a few more nodes in the walls.

Now, show the floors again by unhiding BACKGROUND (FLOORS 1). The existing floors are of no use to us, so we are going to erase them but let us just pick up their settings first, so use :CC2KEEP: on it first, then :CC2ERASE: it.

Now, right click :CC2COPY: and pick Copy to Sheet. Use this to copy both your wall lines to the FLOORS sheet.

Hide the walls sheet. The walls you see now are the copies on the FLOORS sheet. Use :CC2MCHANGE: on the large outer one, and just hit OK. The default values in change properties is the current properties, which we got from the old floors when we used extract properties on it earlier. The large polygon should now look like your floors

Finally, to make the hole, use :CC2MPOLY2: to combine the floor poly with the smaller wall segment. The wall segment may be hidden below the floor poly at this point, but you know where it is, and should be able to pick it up using a selection rectangle even if you cannot see it. You'll see that you have succeeded when the selection counter tells you that you have two entities selected. Be vary of the grid, you don't want to select that.

Now all that remains is to show the WALLS sheet again, and you should have both your floor and the walls.

So if I understand you correctly, the effect you're after is a path snaking it's way upward on a mountainside, similar to what I did with Corgin.

In that map I relied heavily on the cliff texture from SS2, as I found it works really well. I also gradually darkened the path by using the Solid 10 Fill style, basically by drawing larger and larger polygons, so that the lower part basically has more layers, darkening it more. Since Solid 10 is almost transparent, the edges between the different amount of layers is practically invisible. I also drew in some polygons manually to serve as shadows from the cliffside.

Are your walls on the right layer? The cutting feature uses the layer to identify the entity type so that it doesn't cut the floor instead. The walls have to be on the WALLS layer for the cutting to work.

Also, it is an advantage to turn off snap when working with the cutting symbols, especially if you are trying to hit angled walls or walls not exactly on the snap grid.