Yea, messing up your map is kind of easy when you are given direct access to the raw data. Part of the fun :)

To make zoom-friendly glows for text, use the Percentage of View Width effect scaling option. This means the width will be relative to the current view, instead of the map. Of course, this also requires a very different size setting for the range of the glow.

Thanks for another great set of maps @Ricko Hasche. You've put us across the 700 maps milestone with those.

I've edited the first tutorial now, updated it for VS 2022 and tested it on both Windows 10 and 11, so everything should be correct there.

As for the part 2 project, seems like there was an error there where the project no longer contained the references to the XP toolkit, and was otherwise reverted to default values, which is why the includes didn't work. The project needed to be changed to use an installed SDK, and the XP references put back in. I've uploaded a fixed version now.

I've also made a minor change to my CC3+ XP template, now it should default to the latest installed SDK instead of targeting a specific version. You can download the new one using the same link as before.

Filters doesn't work with custom templates unfortunately, but it should be easy to locate just by typing cc3 in the search box.

I'll mention that when I rewrite the tutorial. That first part was written before I made the template at all, so the mentions of it was just edited in later.