CC3 Help: Changing Terrain Fill Density

[NeonKnight]

OK, some answers to your Questions, all inline.

http://www.squaremans.com/images/Urland01.jpg

That map should illustrate the problem. At the top, big forest. Looks good. Large symbols, densely packed together.

Then in the middle is a smaller forest, using the same tool, but note all the white space. My expectation is the white space would be filled with trees, a la the larger forest above. I think I've successfully scaled the symbols in the fill, but not the rate at which it draws them. So both forests have the same density, but since the forest in the middle has smaller trees, there's more white space.

Symbol Fill doesn't seem to do anything, when I monkey with stuff like X and Y spacing using the Deciduous Fill, which it says is currently selected, all that happens is I get a green background under my forest when I draw it, and I think the green background green trees, not part of this map style. Here's the Symbol Fill box.

http://www.squaremans.com/images/Urland05.jpg

When I select Terrain Fill, I can bring up the Advanced Options and this is what I get.

http://www.squaremans.com/images/Urland02.jpg

OK, here you have listed the BASIC CUSTOM DRAWING TOOLS. These cover what will happen when you draw something, This menu selection is quite intense, and allows for all sorts of customization.

http://www.squaremans.com/images/Urland03.jpg

Here, you have shown the FRACTAL POLYGON Option, it has nothing to do with the FILL STYLE, what this deals with is if you are drawing a POLYGON, it will determine how often and how sever it will fractalize the path between points you have placed on the map. Example, if it was a straight line with a single click for start and another for end, this option would determine how often and sever that line is bent between the two points. To get an idea use the FRACTAL PATH tool (on the right with the LINE, CIRCLE, PATH tools), to see what I mean.

http://www.squaremans.com/images/Urland04.jpg

This displays the properties. Unfortunately, the HELP file does not contain much info on this.

Now, there is a HUGE (26 meg) user manual available from the Profantasy Site http://dl1.profantasy.com/library/fi...rManualNew.pdf. You need to logged in to get it tho. Pages 70-73 coves this tool.

What you did not display, is how the FOREST FILL is actually executed, and is coverd in the MACRO section of the tool. I'll be honest, I don't play with macros, as I don't fully understand the complexities of it, and usually just find work arounds.

Now, to fix your Forest Issue, you COULD try running the FILL WITH SYMBOLS command (DRAW -> FILL WITH SYMBOLS) This allows you to play with the symbols you use to fill a polygon. There should be some way to change the symbol size, and I am still researching it, so it might take me a while.

The one thing I can't figure out (cause sometimes I am thick) is how you managed to draw the symbols smaller in Example #1