Another area where MS Paint proves to be superior is that I can open multiple MS Paint windows and copy-paste segments from one to another. Can't open a new window on PDN, or at least not in the simple way you can on MS Paint. So what am I supposed to do if I want to easily switch between a...
That's my whole point. Why do I need to do any of that? Why does it not just perform its most basic function right off the bat?
I don't want to mess with layers. They're unnecessary for the basic things I'm trying to accomplish. I also already had tolerance set to 0% but it still bled over...
Like what?
I mean, look at this:
The paitbucket fill tool doesn't even work correctly. It creates weird colour artefacts like a JPeg. MS Paint just fills the space occupied by a single colour and nothing else. It's simple. That's all you need that tool for. Whatever the heck else PDN is...
I've been here since 2009. I've used basemaps that would make your eyeballs bleed. I was here when the very first UCS was being developed and Cuba was so bent out of shape it was almost just a black blob in the Caribbean.
MS Paint is easily the best choice when it works (which it has done...
No, this is a direct copy-paste from the first page of this thread into MS Paint. And paint-bucketing the background colour is how I ended up with the picture I shared. :coldsweat:
For example with France the base colour is 51/51/255, but for some reason MS Paint has randomly decided these few...
I don't want layers or aliased pixels or whatever. I'm not a graphic artist, I just like making simple maps as a form of meditation and creative outlet. I use MS Paint because every other program is over designed and not even slightly user friendly (like Gimp or Paint.net).
I'm so confused.
I've been messing with maps lately, never finishing anything but starting a buch, and I most often start with the 1914 basemap (easiest borders to adjust IMO). Even earlier today I started a map on that basemap, and everything was going fine.
Tonight though, I'm getting this...
I've been watching some videos by a YouTuber called "Possible History". Unlike many AH YouTubers, he does at least a surface level amount of research into the topics he covers, to the point where I often wonder if he's a member of this site.
One of his videos from around a year ago was "What...
I don't see what difference it makes. Aside from some troops still adventuring in Mozambique, the German colonies only lasted untl 1916 and were a minor distraction to the Entente. I mean, this also frees up a small number of Entente colonial troops. If it has any effect at all, it might be...
The thing is, it's like I said, if someone can't be bothered researching every corner of the globe, then fine, but at the very least just leave NZ independent from Australia. Unless you radically change attitudes in the early to mid 19th Century there's not a chance in hell NZ and Aus will...
My initial comment is based on years of seeing the same "Australasia" trope even in serious alternate histories. The problem is that nobody bothers to look into why Australia and NZ aren't together in real life. There were good reasons for continued separation in OTL, and IMO the threat of...
I mean, that doesn't make it better. It's such a stupid trope that completely ignores a massive part of NZ's history. There is literally no harm in just leaving NZ independent in any of these scenarios. An EU-style union between AUS and NZ is more likely than the two actually federating.
The empire was not a royal whimsy, it was an institution with full public support for the most part, and the EIC was a corporation whose only interest was in prestige and profits. A new government, even a republican one (as unlikely as I believe that is in Britain) is nothing to a business like...
Nerfing/preventing the rise of Christianity would practically guarantee the survival of most of the mentioned religions. Pagans weren't evangelical, typically, so there is no impetus or precedent for mass conversions. Rather, there were equalisations (interpretatio graeca for example, and...