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[NeonKnight]

CC3 also has a nice feature for sorting symbols in you map.

As Jaerdeph, you want to place your symbols is a top down fashion (i.e. start at the top, place a mountain, then place the next mountian lower on the page but on top of the previous mountain, etc. If you see some areas where you 'missed' something you thought would look cool, like a tower 'behind' a mountain, don't worry about erasing the mountain or using the bring to front feature, place you symbol, and keep going. Once you are done, go to the 'SYMBOLS' drop down menu, and select Sort Symbols on Map, then, with the select tool, choose your mountain chain (for example) and then click OK. This automatically puts the tops most symbols at the back, and each symbol lower down above.

See the Examples Below. The first is a forest (each symbol in a deferent color to illustrate point). The second is those same symbols with the Sort Symbols applied.

Finally, with certain symbol sets, like the Base CC3 mountains and forests, they are designed to look good as a group (see Example 3 with the Colors all the same and some individual trees applied to make a forest edge).

Again, play around with the symbols and the styles, see what works, some things like Mountains and trees, lend themselves to the need to have a lot. A mountain chain is difficult to represent with a few mountains. See examples 4 & 5.