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  • Too early for a CC4 wishlist thread, or is it timely?

    You can pan by holding down the mouse wheel and dragging.

    Royal Scriberoflo1
  • CC4 Overland Development Thread

    If there are any Blender enthusiasts here wondering how I did this without having those wretched virtual diagonals you get with a "Wireframe" material node, I learned how to make a true wireframe by watching this video.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38ZC9BnN24U

    Don Anderson Jr.
  • FT3 Views

    Do you mean this route?

    If so, then yes - you are correct about the 1:1 thing.

    However, if you just use the View to get to the right place in the map and then use Save as Campaign Cartographer file

    You should get the correct area.

    Thanks for raising this issue. I wasn't aware of it till you mentioned it.

    EDIT: Incidentally, if you change the shape of the FT window the exported map (as long as you do it from the File menu) will be whatever proportion you have set the window to.

    Don Anderson Jr.Royal ScribeScottARyan Thomas
  • Map will not render as an image file (PNG, JPG, BMP)

    Thank you :)

    I have a semi standard list of things to check. It may or may not be helpful for others. The order in which I do things depends on what's going wrong.

    • What's on the MAP BORDER layer (there should only ever be a rectangle around the outside edge of the map), and does it accurately follow the outside edge of the map.
    • Is the MERGE layer hidden, and is there anything on it (there shouldn't be). The MERGE layer should never be active or hidden.
    • Are there any hidden or frozen layers/sheets, and what order are the sheets in.

    I use Info a lot to find out what sheet and layer things are on and how many nodes they have or if there are identical duplicates, and I sometimes do really strange things like zoom to extents and pretend to delete everything just to find that symbol or node that is a million miles outside the map and causing zoom to extents problems.

    There are a lot more things I do, but most common problems show up by the time I've done these few things.

    Royal Scriberoflo1
  • Map will not render as an image file (PNG, JPG, BMP)

    Thank you :)

    I think they both have at least this one thing in common.

    The only entity on the MAP BORDER layer is a single vertical line on the right side of the Ground Floor map.

    I had the same export to image problem as you did until I deleted that line. Then I got this. Looks like I don't have the font you used, so it's defaulting to some kind of system font.

    These are the export settings I used, if you are interested.

    I recommend you delete that one line on the MAP BORDER layer and try one of the rectangular image export types, so you can define the area you want exported by clicking the corners of that area. If you show the snap grid and activate SNAP you will then be able to reliably export the same area again if you wish.

    Here is your second map with that line deleted.


    KertDawg