@jslayton

CC3+ Closed - double click on .FCW file 16 seconds to open. (Effects are on when file opens)

Click on toggle show light symbol buttons (Thank you Remy for that great tutorial) 15 seconds

Toggle global sun off = 1 second

toggle global sun back on = 15 seconds

toggling effects on is also about 15 seconds

The above testes were for the default size on screen if I zoom in to fill the window with the image it takes 18 seconds to redraw.

rendering effects always triggers laptop fan to turn on

rendering to jpg

setting 5000 5000 300 ai 35% (exportsetmppp = 40000000) = 6 minutes 40 seconds it takes about a minute to get to the LIGHTS GLOBAL Sheet. It look like it is taking 5 minutes for the lights to render after the LIGHTS Global appears and then the message about writing the file to a jpg appears.

setting 5000 5000 300 ai 35% (exportsetmppp = 80000000) = 7 minutes and 20 seconds

Hope this helps

Phase 2 of the project is the night version. Again this is a work in progress and I have a large amount of work to get the sky the way I want it to be.

1) Does the image give the over impression of what I'm trying to showcase in this project?

2) Does the lighting of the mountain range work?

3) Does the lighting in the sky represent the Aurora? (Yes it still needs a lot of work but again this is my first attempt at doing something this intense) (if interested there are 330 lights in the aurora)

I have really learned a lot about lights and how a color background effects the lights differently from a bitmap background.

This will be an on going project until I get the lighting the way I want it and it works for the subject then I will start work on the actual project.

Thank You in advance for your comments and suggestions.

I don’t GM but I’m working on a set of maps for a guy at work and will use this style to help him understand how the escape route maps go together. It will be a series of maps for his party to leave the dungeon they will be in with stairs between each encounter area.

Think I figured it out, put the text inside a text file and then have the map open the text file. Way easier to adjust the text to fit into the desired text area.

The green color water is a trademark of darklands. Look at the sheet effects and you will see an RGB matrix which changes the color. just uncheck it if you want blue water.