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Loopysue

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Sue Daniel (aka 'Mouse')
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  • Is there a way to search all Symbols across catalogs?

    Click the open symbol catalogue button at the top of the symbol panel. Navigate to the Symbols folder and use the Explorer search bar to search for words like cupboard, or rack. You will get everything from every style you own 4 times over for each symbol because there are 4 different resolution images for each symbol. Give the search a chance to look in all the subfolders. For some reason it seems to stop after the first thing it finds and then after a few seconds it shows the rest of the results.

    If you find something you want in the results right click it and pick 'Open file location' and go up one level to pick the catalogue file - the .FSC file. It will have the same name as the folder you were just in. That will open the right catalogue for the symbol you want.

    FrostyGlitch
  • "Converting" paper/image maps to CC/CD

    Hi CheeseshireCat :)

    You can import the bitmap file into CC3 on it's own sheet and layer using Insert file in the Draw menu. (Create the BITMAP sheet and layer first and make sure they are active)

    An open file dialog will pop up allowing you to pick your bitmap file. Then follow the instructions in the command line at the bottom of the window to pick the first and second corners for your image. if you need to move or scale it you can do that using the same commands you would use for polygons or symbols.

    Then use the drawing tools and symbols to recreate your map.

    You should be able to add a transparency effect to the BITMAP sheet to make tracing easier.

    JimP
  • Help with sheet effects (blend, I think?)

    Only some of the sheet effects work with symbols - shadows and glows outside the edge of the symbol, but not much else.

    This is easier if you use single tree symbols. Here I have use single trees and put all the symbols onto the same sheet using Change Properties then sorted them all at the same time using Sort Symbols In Map in the Symbols menu.


    JimPRickoroflo1Rainshine
  • November 2023 Humble Bundle collection

    I really can't answer that definitively, pconophy, since I only saw 4 folders of just one set.

    JimP
  • November 2023 Humble Bundle collection

    It's more a collection of maps this time, AEIOU, along with the core app - naturally. All the CC maps are provided in hi res png format alongside the FCW file where it is available.

    Not all of the maps are CC. I helped to process a very small section of the collection and saw some really beautiful hand drawn/painted maps by Alyssa Faden among others.

    The CC maps have been rendered both with and without labels/grids.

    roflo1