Just finished catching-up with today's video, as I wasn't able to be there for it live.

I've used Character Artist quite a bit over the years, and it was a shame to discover there are no plans to update or expand it, if perhaps understandably so, given it is something of a "luxury" add-on, compared with the primary mapping purpose of CC3+ in general.

Reviewing the video so soon after it was posted means the chat wasn't available to view (it sometimes is lost anyway, if the video is later edited before its final YouTube posting), but I don't think it was mentioned there that there is also the original Character Artist Pro, which has many more drawn-symbol options than CA3, and is much easier to draw your own additions onto, because it uses the far simpler vector drawing style. I suspect many now wouldn't feel it to be "pretty" enough, compared to the more modern hand-drawn version, unfortunately, but it is a versatile tool that shouldn't be ignored - to me, at least!

Yep, the sea looks better this way now!

The Moon is always tricky, because it should affect the lighting on the whole map, and if it doesn't, it can look odd. Technically, for the almost last quarter phase you have currently, it'd be unlikely the unlit side of the Moon would be visible; by that phase, the lit amount is too great for the pale earthlit shine to remain visible. Appreciating this is more artist's view than photo-realism, however!

A better map already, simply for the name-change, of course 😉.

The sea looks a bit odd now though, as if it's actually a sea of mist, not water. Previously, the base of the cliffs had hints of white about them, a little like spray, and the sea surface had some texture to it. Now it just seems oddly textureless and flat.

For the crescent moon, we've had this discussion before, sort-of, in regard to using the CA22 Star Systems dynamic-lighting planet symbols. It's not really possible to use the dynamic lighting to create a proper crescent, though you can get a crude earthlit-crescent-ish effect, using a negative value for the Global Sun's Inclination (try around -20 to -40 degrees). Beyond that, you could simply take a suitable flat planet image, even a photo of Earth's Moon, and create a mask for the unlit part of the crescent using one of the darker Solid bitmap fills.

No, it was just as if it were a glitch that happened when I reopened the Dark Fantasy map today Sue. I think it's somehow been a hangover from the Handdrawn Fantasy style I was using the day before, as if the program was somehow "remembering" that, instead of only using the correct set of tool templates.

I wanted to flag it here, since it seems possible there's something going on in the software causing this to occur, as I couldn't think of an alternative explanation for why it happened.

After it switched back to the correct tools, it never happened again, as I was reusing the river drawing tools (as amended) for some time after that. As I said though, weird 😁!

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