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How do I stop lines from bitmap fills?
Yea. The tools are only a quick way top draw polygons using the fill, but they are just the same as regular polygons and affected by changes in the fill setting the same way.
Note that by turning OFF scaling, it means CC3+ won't keep a consistent scale between zoom levels, and screen and export. With scaling off, what looks nice on screen may not look as nice on export.
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Printing out high res maps
Resolution of 5000x5000 with an antialias of 75 is not going to work for most people. That high of an antialiasing setting is generating a work image of over 11000x11000. Pushing it that high can work if the stars are aligned just right, but is not recommended.
For the sake of testing the script, try something more reasonable, such as a resolution of 2500x2500 and antialias of 20%. You can try to increase it when you know things work at that level.
When I test the scripts, I usually just set the res to 1000x1000 without antialias. The final result won't be great, but it runs through things that much faster.
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Printing out high res maps
It is worth noting that a single image file really cannot contain as much detail as the original CC3+ map, unless it is a very small map.
This is just a limit of images, really. While you can certainly export an image large enough that you can do zooms in it, you can't get the same quality as inside CC3+ itself.
If you are interested in very large exports, you can have a look at the large exports annual, it contains scripts that help you do what Sue suggests, export in pieces and stitch together, but as she says, you still quickly runs into issues with the image formats themselves.
I have done a 200000 x 200000 pixel export using this technique, but the image file is basically unusable, no programs actually manage to open that file. The only thing I could do with it was creating a zoomable web view (Go to https://atlas.monsen.cc/Maps/City%20Of%20Sanctuary and hit the "Zoomable Image" button). It is quite impressive, but of limited use.
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Fighting with TRACED
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Exporting map to jpg image - aligning grid with vtt grid
When you are exporting for VTT use and plan to use grids, make sure to always export using the rectangular section option. For example, if you look at your screenshot above, you'll notice that you have a border outside your map that is part of your image.
CC3+ isn't a "grid mapper", so export sizes are for the entire drawing, not just the gridded areas, so when you export the image in a size of 2000x2000, that border is going to eat part of that size, not leaving a full 100px for each grid square. But if you use rectangular section when you export and make sure to only export the map itself (use snaps on when defining the area to ensure precision) you should get the right size.
It is also important to set the export size correct in both dimensions.





