You were helping me by making me think about it ;)

Hi Kopjeagga :)

All looks to be in order, and a fine pair of maps. They don't look like first attempts so I presume you aren't also a first time mapper.

As long as the images you post are in some way related to the thread there's never usually a problem. I do a lot of development threads for new styles, and end up with more inspiration images and sketches than maps in those. The only thing to be wary of is posting someone else's copyrighted work, but usually in those cases it's easy enough to give a link to that work so it can be viewed on the artist's page.

The FT3 exports are what we call 'multipolies' and behave quite different to ordinary polygons. They are made up of ordinary polygons combined into a single entity.

There's an explode button on the left toolbar. Make sure you only have one sheet visible, as sometimes there are duplicated contours - for example contour zero and the coastline coincide with each other. Use Explode only once on that multipoly. Then you should be able to manipulate the continents properly.

Looking a little ahead of that exercise, FT3 exports frequently have way too many nodes to be practical in a CC3 map, so unless you exported from FT3 at a relatively low resolution the next logical step might be to use the SIMPLIFY keyboard command to weed out duplicated or very closely positioned nodes on all your continents. This will help a lot when you start to add more polygons to your map.

Follow this link for the part 2 thread:

https://forum.profantasy.com/discussion/13550/live-mapping-hilltop-fort-2

Hi everyone! :D

In this week's live mapping session Ralf will be continuing his hilltop fort project by adding the details of the courtyard and buildings on top of the hill. Join us in the chat of the live session here on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDIhBc69LCc

Or if you prefer you can watch it right here:

Looking forward to seeing you all live :)

If you missed the first part you can watch it again here on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc89lO0ODAc