I thought you might like to see some of the process involved in creating the mapped mountains.

Here is the first prototype ridge - a simple edge faded thick line of the red tundra and a rocky texture for the spine.

And here it is in CC3 combined with a crude map file to test colours.

Don't worry - the volcanoes were just as crude when I started with them. This is just the initial stage - working out textures and colours.

I think I might have sorted out the general volcanic theme. If you are happy with this as the toolkit I'll make the mirror copies of the volcano symbols.

My experience of volcanoes is limited to recent Icelandic and Hawaiian erruptions - the last 4 years of them anyway, so the fill reflects at least the mood of what I've seen of the relatively flat ground around those eruptions, which seems to be surprisingly pale except where vehicles off road and turn the surface to reveal the darker colours, but I'll keep it for something else and try a volcanic-coloured version of the tundra fills.

Another reason for making it relatively pale is that the darker the fill is, the darker the symbols have to be, and the darker the symbols are, the less effective the map files are, to the point where you can hardly see any shading at all. Map files work best on mid-tone symbols like rooftops. We'll be ok with the regular mountains because they aren't as dark as volcanoes, but the volcanoes are certainly proving to be quite a challenge.

There wasn't much of a highlight on the lit side. I've tweaked them to show more light there now. Do they still look like holes?

Wyvern - I was just thinking about the ridges. I put the mountain shape on the hill shape sheet instead, which has a much softer blur.

There will be a range of volcanoes to play with - most of them smaller than these. These are supervolcano size.

Calibre - That's a shame. I wouldn't change it too much - the volcano symbols won't match. But on the bright side, these are mapped symbols, so as long as you have them on a sheet of their own you can use colour changing sheet effects on them too.