[Therion] Big room multiple scraps - How to join

[Bruce Mutton]

Hi Bill
That is generally what I do.
Depending on the arrangement of the images you might be able to leave some or most of them visible if you change the stacking order.  Experiment with the Top, Up, Down, Bottom buttons.

You can also double-right-click an image to allow you to drag it to another location before you start drawing.  This can avoid the 'problem' of images overlapping each other.  However doing this is likely counter-productive for the work flow we are discussing in this thread.

As another aside, if you insert .png format images with a transparent background, the problem of one image obscuring another is greatly reduced.  I don't have any experience with how these survive export to .th2 or .xvi, so not sure how relevant this is here.

Bruce

-----Original Message-----
From: Therion <therion-bounces at speleo.sk> On Behalf Of Bill Gee
Sent: Saturday, 5 August 2023 08:44
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Subject: Re: [Therion] Big room multiple scraps - How to join

Hmmm....  I think I get it.  The xvi file consists of three images. 
When I set it as the background for a drawing window, there are four entries in the background list.  They are the file name and each of the images it contains.  The file name holds the centerline and each image holds one drawing.

To draw on top, uncheck visibility for all but one of the images.  Draw on that, then make it invisible and turn on another image.  Add to the drawing, then repeat for the third background.

Is that the basic process?

Screen shot attached.

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Bill Gee

On 8/4/23 14:53, Bruce Mutton wrote:
>  > The problem is the sketches are not transparent enough to use.  The 
> only part of the sketch that has any visible drawing on it is for the 
> last scrap mentioned in the map statement of the .th file.  The other 
> drawings are not visible.
> 
> Bill
> 
> Select the image, untick visibility
> 
> 
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