Well, this has been covered (done-to-death) in previous posts .. Country borders tend to complicated, usually difficult to get a good selection, so my advice is get a premade map composed of vectors - a svg image. This site has several and is free-to-use. https://simplemaps.com/resources/svg-europe
Making seamless patterns can be complicated, in this case just make a small image (size to suit map) Add a dot in the center. Then you can either export as a pattern or as shown copy and it becomes a temporary "clipboard pattern" (4) in the screenshot You can use a transparent background.
That is correct.
(1) Using that svg image, make sure you import the paths (one for each country)
(2) If you want a background add a layer underneath and fill.
(3) Select the country path.
(4) Using the pattern, fill in a new layer. Edit -> Fill Path
(5) If you need a border, stroke the path, You can set a pattern in Edit -> Stroke Path dialogue. (remember to set back to a solid line when finished)
...of course you can...concentrate on one operation at a time, use plenty of layers.
(03-06-2025, 09:41 PM)saint_m Wrote: if i got this right - then a very important step is to create a pattern - is this right!?
is this teh first step in the process?
Making seamless patterns can be complicated, in this case just make a small image (size to suit map) Add a dot in the center. Then you can either export as a pattern or as shown copy and it becomes a temporary "clipboard pattern" (4) in the screenshot You can use a transparent background.
Quote:second - with this dotted pattern - we need to set up a layer - the layer in other words is made of such dotted pattern
and then thirdly we need to add a nother layer that could be taken from maps - we need for example a map of
europe or USA or so - and then we put the data layer for layer to a a pcoesss were subsequently have the dotted layer that -- hmm lemme say "fills " the part of our european map..
That is correct.
(1) Using that svg image, make sure you import the paths (one for each country)
(2) If you want a background add a layer underneath and fill.
(3) Select the country path.
(4) Using the pattern, fill in a new layer. Edit -> Fill Path
(5) If you need a border, stroke the path, You can set a pattern in Edit -> Stroke Path dialogue. (remember to set back to a solid line when finished)
Quote:can we go so - can we do like so?
...of course you can...concentrate on one operation at a time, use plenty of layers.