Check this FAQ entry. It contains a pair of video links in addition to the text.

Normally, you shouldn't need to change anything, as the tools and sheets should be set up to make everything just work unless you are trying some more advanced techniques.

Looking at your screenshot, I notice the Sheet setting for the tool is blank. The default setting for that particular tool should be LAKES*.

With that setting blank, it means that CC3+ will NOT attempt to put it on the correct sheet automatically, meaning you'll have to take care of things manually. Basically, that means you need to set the sheet to LAKES manually before starting drawing. I see it is set to LAKES currently in your screenshot, so assuming that your landmass is indeed on the LAND sheet, it should work right now, but if you change the currently set sheet, it will go to that one instead.

If it doesn't, confirm that your landmass is indeed on the LAND sheet, as rearranging sheets won't do a thing if entities aren't on the appropriate sheets.

Basically, use Info -> List on your landmass to check it is on the LAND sheet, on the lake to check that it is on the LAKES sheet, and that the sheet ordering is with LAND appearing higher up in the list than LAKES.

And to add what Loopysue said, make sure that your rivers and lakes really are on those sheets. They won't automatically go there even if you have sheets by those names, where they go is determined by the setting in the drawing tool.

You can always check witch sheet an entity is on by using the the List command from the Info menu, or simply hiding all other sheets than the one you wish to inspect.

You can't actually hide something that an effect is based on, because effects are calculated using changes from the below drawing, but there are a few things you can try to make it less visible.

• Set it up with a solid 10 fill. This is very transparent (if it is too transparent for the effect to work, try solid 20 or 30)
• Use the same color as in your effect, and add a little transparency to it.
• Make it pink and then use the color key effect to hide it. Color key must appear after glow in the effect list.

I find going with my own world so much more rewarding than those published worlds. It's more work on one side, but oh so much more flexibility on the other side, and the opportunities for a place the players can truly explore rather than read all about in a book.

Map looks quite fine to me. If anything, I think it might need some more settlements, but that can be a thing for detail maps. Since it had land et every edge, you can bet that the players will soon enough want to travel there and see what is beyond, so I hope you are prepared for that.