How do you draw on your war map and canvas?

[Vyper]

title.

[Slowpoker]

You use the paintbrush, Put some dye on it, and paint.

[Slowpoker]

Hit the canvas with the brush to launch the UI.

[weregamer]

Argh. It says "highlight the preview window to freepaint, but I haven't figured out a keystroke or mouse movement to do that. I can click on the "regions" (which aren't supposed to mean anything on a war map), the colors in my inventory, the paintbrush tool. But clicking on the map image, hitting tab, nothing seems to get the focus to the map drawing panel. What do I need to do?

[Serangel]

Originally posted by weregamer:

Argh. It says "highlight the preview window to freepaint, but I haven't figured out a keystroke or mouse movement to do that. I can click on the "regions" (which aren't supposed to mean anything on a war map), the colors in my inventory, the paintbrush tool. But clicking on the map image, hitting tab, nothing seems to get the focus to the map drawing panel. What do I need to do?

Place the war map on a wall or what ever you want it on and hit it with a paint brush. Don't try to upload a pnt image to it though or it will disconnect you. You'll have to settle for a multi panel canvas picture for that. You can still draw what ever you want on the war map in game though.

[weregamer]

Umm, what I wrote implied that I knew that much. You don't get the stupid window I asked about until you've hit the thing with a paintbrush.

I did figure it out after a lot of random attempts - you have to *double click a color* to load it onto the brush. Not single click, not drag, etc. Another example of the shoddiness of these developers (a lot of things that would flunk UI design 101, some horrible unoptimized code that takes way too long to load, and a tendency to get random problems that look like race conditions).

Unlike the more important UI problems, though, this is unlikely to be fixed by modders - it's such a minor feature. TBH, the only reason I care is so I could show my 8yo son where stuff is on the map, rather than trying to talk him through the "place marker" UI.