Another thing that might work is a Color Key sheet effect if you are willing to carefully draw a cutout poly along the top edges of the cliff.

I've just tried it myself.

CTRL+Q works fine, unless you accidentally release the Q before you release the CTRL button. That's when it scales things instead of moving them.

If you ever want to get rid of that part you could try adding more terrain fills on a sheet above the cliffs with a small edge fade.

The best way to see how it works is to open a drawing and add a Color Key effect to a sheet that has a polygon you want to cut a hole in. Add a Color Key sheet effect to that sheet, noting the cutout colour (magenta or colour 6 by default). Then draw a magenta poly representing the hole you want to cut on the same sheet as the poly you want to cut the hole in (the one with the Color Key effect) and hit refresh. I didn't understand it to start with, but trying it out suddenly started a whole lot of little sparks in my mind as I saw what I could do with it.

A Color Key will also cut holes in city symbols, though not in symbols in overland or dungeon maps. It works like an inverted mask.

@db2000 - sorry for hijacking your thread just a bit there!

Thanks :)

You can if you want, Hadrian, but it's easier to put a whole rectangle of sea over the map and cut holes in it making use of the Color Key effect on the WATER sheet.

It's not really an original idea. Most city map styles have the water over the land. It's just an adaptation of that for overland maps.