Seems like that fill is set up with a darker fill than those used in the map.

There are a couple of ways to fix it:

1- Fixing it in-map:

1. Draw the entity
2. Unlock groups ("Locked" button in the very bottom right of the UI)
3. Hit Change Properties
4. Right click in map, pick More -> Fill Style
5. Right click to bring up the fill style dialog, pick the bitmap file tab
6. Select CA101_Parchment from the dropdown, make sure the radio button for "this is the currently selected fill style" is enabled, and hit ok
7. Hit D for do it
8. In the Change properties dialog, set fill style to CA128_Parchment A Light and hit ok
9. Lock groups again.

(Edit. Forget the second way I just typed for now. Seems like there is something else happening when the tool is used. Investigating.)

Note that the fills here are all hatch styles, meaning they are vector entities, so map performance will not be much better compared to just using symbols, but it will certainly be easier to map larger regions.

While I am more than happy for you to make a local map out of that area for the atlas if you want to do that, it is after all quite a large area that might contain lots more villages than seen on the rather large-scale main map (Just check out that local map already made in that small rectangular area in the middle), remember that the competition is about creating a map of a single village, so I wouldn't be able to accept such an area map for the competition.

Of course, if you want to make a local area map, and then a village map of one of the villages in the new local area map, that would be perfectly fine, but otherwise, you should pick one of the villages in the area to map, not the entire area.

As I have just posted the competition for the 1000th atlas map, I will have to suspend regular submissions for a while. After all, since the competition is about the 1000th map, I don't want any side submission sneaking in and pushing us over outside the competition.

I may accept a few, since we are still 13 maps short, but no big map dumps until after September.

One thing that I never was quite happy with with out current image gallery solution was the image viewer. The gallery allows people to upload images in quite high resolution, but since the viewer didn't have anyway to zoom, actually enjoying that quality was cumbersome unless you knew how to bypass the viewer and force the browser to view the image directly.

And after a recent conversation with Quenten, I realized it was time to actually try to improve this a bit.

So, I have now replaced the image viewer that is used when you click images in the gallery. The new viewer loads the image into a regular forum page by default (as opposed to the full window used by the previous one), but in return the general navigation experience is better, and the new viewer allows you to zoom in/out on images using the mouse wheel, the buttons above the viewer, or by pinch gestures on mobile. It also has a full-screen button so you can easily bring any map into full screen view for a maximized viewing experience. (Hit the full-screen button again, or the esc key to leave full screen).

As with the old viewer, there are also back/forward buttons (top right) that allows you to click through all the images belonging to the same gallery album as the current image.

I might do some additional tweaking in the future, but for now, it should be up and running just fine (hopefully). Let me know if you encounter any issues (error messages, wrong images loading, etc). Hope you enjoy this improvement.

If you are posting images in the forum and want to include a link to the higher resolution one in the gallery, just navigate to the viewer page for that image in your gallery, then copy the URL from the browser address bar and paste it into the post. The url should look something like this: https://forum.profantasy.com/galleryviewer/10/18992.

Also, please do remember that if you upload images to posts, they will be resized to a maximum of 1500x1500 pixels, no matter the original resolution or file size, so if you want a higher resolution image for viewers to enjoy, you must use the gallery (The gallery will resize to a maximum of 8192x8192 pixels).

These symbol catalog settings are stored as .sis files in @System\Symbol Catalog Settings, so one would have to manually make copy of these for use in new installations. (And of course, there are the new symbol catalogs themselves (the .fsc files).