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  • WIP: Cartographer Guild May Challenge

    Nice work on the rivers so far :)

    The way the terrain textures are designed, it may be easier to add the rest of the various greens and browns before the mountain background, though it depends on your personal taste. All of them (the colours - including the mountain background) are just polygons drawn on the same sheet and massively blurred, then blended with the paper, so whatever you add first tends to diminish beneath later colours that overlap. If this happens to your map just use the bring to front tool and grab the mountain background colours (there are 3 of them in fact in various shades of increasingly dark grey) to bring them forward.

    You may find that doubling or trebling the size of the blur on the TERRAIN Colour sheet will improve the overall appearance of the map, since it is quite a large map. The colours are meant to work like a smooth gradient across the map without any noticeable edges. Edges are for the scrub and farmland textures, which are on different sheets to the terrain colour.

    The colour palette with this style contains all the terrain colours in a single row. Towards the right hand end of that row of colours there are a range of colours for the varicolour hills so that you can match them with the terrain colours a little better when you have finished colouring the terrain. You can change the colour of a varicolour hill using the change properties tool if you end up with any mismatches by the end.


    jmabbottTheschabiCalibreIndara1920Glitch
  • Hi, great to be here from Skillet!

    Pst! It's ok Skillet - Remy is Norwegian ;)

    Skillet
  • Help with lighting

    When you use the command, what figure are you getting in response at the command prompt? Is is 4000000, or 40000000?

    If it is only 4000000, type 40000000 and press enter to change the setting.

    (I had to count those zeros several times! There are no commas to help you, but one is 4 million, and the other is 40 million)

    AleDDak
  • Show All Text Insertion Points

    I think sheets have been around for quite a while, but either the TEXT sheet or the LABELS layer should do the trick - or variations of those two names.

    DaishoChikara
  • Help with lighting

    If you haven't already done this, use the EXPORTSETMPPP command to increase the maximum pixels per pass from 4 million to 40 million. The lights are being chopped off because each rendering pass only takes account of the lights within the extent of the pass. Increasing the extent of each pass is usually sufficient to cure this problem.

    Dak