So... I tried to solve it, then made it worse, then fixed my mistakes, and now I'm back to square one.

But I did find something positive: if I execute the MENU command and open FCW32.MNU, the button is shown for the remainder of the session (or until I open another map).

I've contacted Tech Support. Hopefully some of my "experiments" yield useful information for the devs.

One thing I've been pondering for a while is creating images with white noise over transparent background. In my mind, I can get away with many, many textures in CC3+ just by playing with colours. And perhaps tweak with yet more transparency and colouring via filters.

So when I saw this post, I decided to go for a first attempt. I created this simple, tileable, base image (feel free to use it):

And then in CC3+, I dropped a blue rectangle as Sue suggested and then dropped my tiling image on top of it. There's three 'cloudy' rectangles (on top of the blue one) in this screenshot:

The left side of this screenshot is a Fill style based on the provided image (scaling 100x100) and I manually inserted the same image on the right side (Draw->Insert File). Then for kicks (and for variability), I added another rectangle with the same fill style on the bottom, but didn't snap to grid so the texture doesn't align with itself (of course, I could have used another base image and/or another fill style with different scaling).

If you also take Sue's suggestions and add "individual" cloud symbols, you should get a lot of variability.

PS:

That's... impressive. I don't think I'd even have the patience to start a project like that. ;)

Hi,

Yes! Everything seems to be running smoothly now.

I decided not to install FT3+ (yet) because it's been waiting for me to stop discovering CC3+ and DD3 first. ;)

Thanks for the help, and for keeping an eye on this thread.

Ah, yes... "Change" is the one that then allows you to repair.

Yes, see my previous screenshot.

Oh, that I blacked that out. Heh. Should have pointed that out. Out of habit, I guess... I can't think of a reason why the path would be sensitive information.