Need help - couple of dumb questions
Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2017 5:31 pm
I feel like an idiot because I can't figure this out. It's probably super easy to do.
I have a map with a river running North-South approximately through the middle. There's a lake in the middle of this river. I placed these objects on top of an empty background (I simply changed the background color from ocean-like blue to a forest-like green).
So far all is good with my silly little map.
I want to create some rocky cliff-like regions on either side of the southern end of the lake, with a narrow gap in-between them. There's a dam between them, hence the lake. I've tried creating these with both the LandMass tool and the Region tool, doesn't seem to matter.
I can draw them just fine, but I can't get the lake to be on a layer underneath the rocky outcropping things. The lake is on top of the background, which is good, but it's also on top of my cliffs/outcroppings on either side, which is not what I want. I've tried moving objects frontwards and backwards on the layers to no avail.
Water is always above landmasses and regions, which actually makes sense, I understand why that is. But in this case I want cliffs above the water. I can't seem to put anything above the water layer other than buildings and rivers.
As an alternative approach, I also tried to figure out how to either get the lake shoreline to follow the path of the outcroppings or vice versa. Can't do it. I can't find the toggle anywhere in the UI to turn this option on, nor can I get the cool auto-generated squiggly line segments to line up while putting them down.
I'm open to using the Partition Tool but it wasn't really the workflow I had in mind, and so far it's just been worse for what I'm trying to do.
Thanks for any patient advice. I'm normally decent with software, just find myself a little turn-around with this.
I have a map with a river running North-South approximately through the middle. There's a lake in the middle of this river. I placed these objects on top of an empty background (I simply changed the background color from ocean-like blue to a forest-like green).
So far all is good with my silly little map.
I want to create some rocky cliff-like regions on either side of the southern end of the lake, with a narrow gap in-between them. There's a dam between them, hence the lake. I've tried creating these with both the LandMass tool and the Region tool, doesn't seem to matter.
I can draw them just fine, but I can't get the lake to be on a layer underneath the rocky outcropping things. The lake is on top of the background, which is good, but it's also on top of my cliffs/outcroppings on either side, which is not what I want. I've tried moving objects frontwards and backwards on the layers to no avail.
Water is always above landmasses and regions, which actually makes sense, I understand why that is. But in this case I want cliffs above the water. I can't seem to put anything above the water layer other than buildings and rivers.
As an alternative approach, I also tried to figure out how to either get the lake shoreline to follow the path of the outcroppings or vice versa. Can't do it. I can't find the toggle anywhere in the UI to turn this option on, nor can I get the cool auto-generated squiggly line segments to line up while putting them down.
I'm open to using the Partition Tool but it wasn't really the workflow I had in mind, and so far it's just been worse for what I'm trying to do.
Thanks for any patient advice. I'm normally decent with software, just find myself a little turn-around with this.