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Sue Daniel (aka 'Mouse')
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  • WIP: need some help with making text more visible

    Hi Brian! :)

    The most important thing to remember with lables is contrast. If you turned your map black and white the map itself would be all shades of grey, ranging from a very dark grey to a very pale one. To make text stand out from it chose either a very pale label colour with a very dark glow, or a very dark colour with a very pale glow. The kill-all solution is to use the palest and darkest shades of grey - one for the text and the other for the glow.

    Drop shadows don't generally work very well for readability, but can look good on a title sometimes.

    Your labels are pretty much mid-tone, which is the most difficult colour to make stand out, even when you intensify the native white glow.

    I recommend picking lighter or darker labels, and maybe using an Outer Glow instead of the slightly less tidy Glow, like this.

    Or like this.

    You could use both on two TEXT sheets - one way for the title and the other way around for the map labels.

    Royal ScribeScottA
  • WIP: ESTONISCH CONTINENT BIRDSEYE

    Each time I see it I don't think it can look better, but then it improves again.

    I think the labels might be a little large now, but again that is personal taste. It depends how large you print or use the map.

    Calibre
  • WIP: ESTONISCH CONTINENT BIRDSEYE

    Thanks :)

    It seemed an unlikely cause. Never had that happen to me before, but I never export without AA.

    Calibre
  • WIP: ESTONISCH CONTINENT BIRDSEYE

    Ah ha!

    I forgot to switch off the antialias.

    For some reason you need to have some antialiasing going on.

    Try about 20-33%

    That definitely shouldn't be happening at zero antialiasing. Please can you report it to TS for me?

    CalibreDon Anderson Jr.
  • Can't find 1930s Travel Guides in Floorplans

    It has a few bitmaps in it. The main one is CA52 Paper Bitmap, but there is also a small selection of others in there that might actually be there by accident. They are more typical of a DD3 dungeon map.

    roflo1