[Therion] Placing part of a map below another

[Bill Gee]

Hi Tarquin -

The "select" statement in the thconfig file turned out to be the answer.  I have never used that before, so I don't understand why my other maps with overlying passage have worked.  However, it took care of this situation.

In this case I need to map a map of the lower level because it will contain far more than one scrap.  Right now there is only 50 feet or so of the stream mapped, but eventually it will be hundreds of feet, and it will weave back and forth under the main passage.

Just to make life even more complicated, there is an upper level passage that will get stacked in here too!  When we get done there will be at least three levels.

Thanks!

-- 
Bill Gee



On Friday, July 26, 2019 11:46:44 AM CDT Tarquin Wilton-Jones via Therion wrote:
> Hi Bill,
> 
> > When I set up the map in the .th file, I created a map for "MainPassages" and another for "LowerStream".
> 
> 
> You don't normally need to do this. You can just put the two scraps into
> the same map like this:
> 
> map outermap
>   mainpassagesscrap
>   break
>   lowerstreamscrap
> endmap
> 
> This will display the lower stream's scrap below the main passages
> scrap. Or if you want to keep your two maps, then this should work:
> 
> map outermap
>   MainPassages
>   break
>   LowerStream
> endmap
> 
> Make sure your .thconfig file has:
> 
> select outermap at surveyname
> 
> I think this is the most likely cause of your problem - if you don't
> select the right map, Therion will select all of the scraps, without any
> control over stacking order.
> 
> > "[0 0] below"
> 
> 
> This is something very different, and not related to stacking order. It
> is used to offset a map from its natural position, and leave a shadow
> "below" the other maps where it would normally have been. "0 0" would
> not offset it at all, so you are asking Therion to draw the map in its
> natural position, and leave a shadow ... also in its natural position
> ... below the map.
> 
> Probably not what you were looking for :)
> 
> Hope this is useful.
> 
> Tarquin
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