If you don't see any options at all for map type in the new map wizard, then either CC3+ can't find it's data directory at all, or somehow the template sub-directory have been wiped out.

For the latter, just look into your CC3+ data directory and look for a Templates directory at the root of it, with subdirectories for each map type. If the templates directory is actually missing or empty, there isn't any approach but reinstall since you would be missing important files

As for CC3+ potentially not finding the data directory, that will also be accompanied with things like CC3+ having no menu bars and complaining about an invalid license, so it doesn't sound like this is the case based on your description.

I did try a test install+uninstall of SS5, but I couldn't find any problems with the installer. SS5 works after installing it, and uninstalling it doesn't break my installation, so I can't say exactly what might have happened for you unfortunately.

I would like to note one thing though, you say you don't use the documents directory to avoid filling up Onedrive with CC3+ files. But CC3+ doesn't use the documents directory by default anyway, the default installation location for the CC3+ data directory is c:\ProgramData\ProFantasy\CC3Plus which is not related to your documents directory. The only things CC3+ and addons will offer to install into the documents directory is a separate stand-alone copy of the artwork for use with other software (The "install a separate artwork folder" checkbox), this is NOT intended to be installed into your CC3+ data directory as these files are NOT for use with CC3+.

To start with the basics, you're probably not wanting to use the Symbol fill at all. It is a very ancient way of filling with symbols, and only gives a very regular pattern. You're probably want to use Draw -> Symbols in Area instead.

Not sure about the crashing, but I am able to reproduce it, so I'll bring it to the attention of the developer. But this fill type is likely to go away in the future, so a fix is likely to be lower priority.

No. It's a holiday, so both Jack and Asa have some time off.

Try this workaround:

Also note that both CONTOURSM and TRACED are commands that does this automatically, none of them require tracing by hand. You probably do want to use TRACED (after applying the fix from above)

This livestream I plan to teach you all a bit more about combining styles. I have shown elements of this before in many of my live mapping sessions, but this time I am going to make it a focus of the stream, and give a more complete and coherent overview of the process.

We will talk about thinks like setting up your own template that combines the resources from two styles so you can have everything at the ready when you make a new map.

As usually, you can visit https://youtube.com/live/reoS0Mzlnzk at the appointed time (which you should see in your time zone in the left forum sidebar) to watch the video, or use the player below.