You're making some really pretty maps, Daniel :)

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.

Hi Everyone :)

In this week's Live Mapping session on Thursday 6 May, Ralf will be demonstrating the use of the new Darklands Annual, published as this month's issue of the 2021 Cartographer's Annual

Come along and join in the fun :)

If you hide or delete the COASTLINE sheet that will get rid of the blue line, which is a separate entity to the land drawn on the LAND sheet.

I haven't got a default CC3 style map lying around I can just open, and I'm a little tangled up with 3 instances of CC3 open at the same time right now, but if you click on the LAND sheet of the default style you should be able to copy the sheet effects on that sheet, copy them, and paste them into the Mike Schley map.

As for the rivers - I believe they are drawn the same way in both styles, though the colour might be different. You can find out what colour the rivers are in the default style using List from the Info menu, and then change the properties of the rivers in your MS map using the Change Properties button on the left toolbar.

Took all day, but I've got a single bundle of eelgrass (sometimes known as seagrass). What do you think?