Monsen
Monsen
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Is there a runic font?
@Royal Scribe asked:
If there's a font that's not on the approved list but is available for use, are we allowed to explode them and use them as symbols for Atlas submissions, or would you feel safer only using fonts on that approved list?
Commercial fonts, assuming you actually own the license to said font, allows you to produce documents using it, so exploding it should be completely fine, as you are not making the font available to others in any way by doing that. So I have no problem with that.
(Moot question if the answer above is "no.") If there's a font that's not on the approved list but is available for use only, does the Atlas count as noncommercial use that would allow permit that font to be used as an exploded symbol?
Well, the atlas is absolutely non-commercial, neither me, nor the contributors earn anything from it. The big problem with non-commercial though is that it is poorly defined, and a lot of licenses have a slightly different take on what that actually means. Technically, this forum IS a commercial entity, because it is connected to ProFantasy's business, but most licenses are still happy with end users posting things made with non-commercial usage licenses in such forums to show off their own work as long as they don't personally earn money from it. But for that atlas itself, I don't seeany problem with using such fonts as long as their license doesn't explicitly forbid it.
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Building a world from scratch
Nice work so far.
I was looking at your .fcw files, and I noticed that some of the colors around your mountain regions were a very bright pink. I am suspecting this is not intentional and is due to you having an non-default palette installed. If this is the case, I recommend attaching the palette to the drawing so it follows the file instead of having it in your CC3+ data directory as a separate file affecting all maps. You can attach the palette from the :CC2PRESETS: dialog.
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unsure what I've done to the border
Whenever you have issues like this, it is almost always something on the wrong sheet.
Sometimes the easiest way is to go through the sheets one by one.
If you issue the command
SAUTOHIDEONyou put CC3+ into only displaying one sheet at a time mode. You can then go to the next sheet with theSNEXTcommand or previous one usingSPREVcommand, or to a specified sheet by using theSSET SheetNamecommand.There is a small bug where the sheet indicator in the status bar says Common Sheet even if that is not the active sheet. Issuing a REDRAW command (or Ctrl +R) updates this to show the proper sheet.
Once you have identified what is wrong, which should be obvious when you work through the sheets like that, you can turn normal sheet display back on and show all sheets with
SHOWSHTF *. -
Can't see objects when moving, scaling, etc.
Which kind of object is it? Symbol, polygon? Does it happen in all map styles, or just in your current map? (Try starting a new map in a completely different style and test)
There is one specific quirk in CC3+ that makes this happen. The outline when moving is drawn using an XOR against the background. This basically means that the outline color always will be the exact opposite of the background behind it. But, if there are two entities stacked exactly on top of each other, then you get the reverse of the revers, which means it gets drawn the same as the background.
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Ricko's Questions
To add on to Sue's answer, If you need several versions at different scales, you can clone a fill style definition by first picking the desired one to clone, then hitting the New button in the dialog, and give the clone a name. Now you have two versions of the same fill, which can be scaled independently. You can then make another drawing tool that uses the new version of the fill to have two drawing tools with the same fill at different scales.









