The rest was "just" eyecandy afterwards, tweaking opacities, color display options, smoothing edges, adding title and signature line etc. By using them, it's a piece of cake even for people who only have MS Paint level-knowledge to change colors of provinces quickly. In order to assign the nations' colors to these provinces, I then decided to use the "empty black space" to fit in the national color reference table, where I made small squares filling them with the RGB color codes I searched from the ETW data pack files. Then, I created vector layers for every single province and painted each province individually by hand (mostly, as the autofill-tools never are that refined, sadly, and yes, this took some hours). The background map images are the one from the minimaps, though I enlarged them by about 200%.then, I redraw all border and coast lines manually with my handy graphic tablet (still took quite a while and was quite difficult, as the borders on the regular minimap are only drawn very very subtle (they mostly are visible because the provinces get colored by the game.). Here you also can recolor the color layer as I layer-masked it or change the layer option (standard is Linear Light).įeedback very welcome, if I made some mistakes in drawing the borders or provinces are named wrong or whatever, just give a note. If you are unhappy with the water layer, you can find it in the "mapwork" group. Here you also can try some other settings like Color Burn or Vivid Light. The overall opacity of the province coloring can be set by selecting the "provinces" group and changing its opacity level (currently it's set to 60%). I think this method is rather easy to use once you got the concept and also easily allows to paint emergent/re-emerging factions that might pop up during a campaign, as the color reference is always avaible. Info on usage: If you want to change the ownership of a province, just search the province in the "Provinces" group and select it (make sure you have not selected the layer mask), then pick the nation color by using the pipette tool (or press
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