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Map appearance examples

Rules to start from. Each one is a working set of appearance rules on the Lantern Coast, shown as the rule editor you fill in and as the expressions you can copy into each rule’s Expression view. Choose which you’d like to see; the Guide remembers your choice on every page.

Drag the slider to compare the map with no rules and with the example’s rules. Appearance rules never hide a node, so both sides show the same nodes in the same places; only their look changes. Writing the Applies to selector works exactly as for filters: see writing expressions.

Picking nodes out

A halo on clues not yet given

A halo on clues not yet given

A custom-field condition is false for a node of another type, so only clues can match. The four clues still to give the players get an amber halo of width 8, a ring that stands out even on a busy map.

Builder The rule editor with the rule Clues not yet given
Expression
Rule 1, Clues not yet given: Applies to 
clue.given = "not_given"

Before Before, with no appearance rules: every node in its type's own style. Rule: Clues not yet given.
After After: Clues not yet given applies to clue.given = "not_given".
Rule: Clues not yet given

A border on missing NPCs

A border on missing NPCs

Status is a field of the NPC type, so the condition is npc.status. Ines Calloway is missing, so her node gets a red border of width 6. The same rule with "deceased" marks the dead.

Builder The rule editor with the rule Missing NPCs
Expression
Rule 1, Missing NPCs: Applies to 
npc.status = "missing"

Before Before, with no appearance rules: every node in its type's own style. Rule: Missing NPCs.
After After: Missing NPCs applies to npc.status = "missing".
Rule: Missing NPCs

An underlay on Act 1

An underlay on Act 1

HAS tests for one whole tag. An underlay is a soft shape behind the node: here green, with padding 12 and opacity 0.35, so the node’s own colour still shows through. Every node tagged Act 1 is marked, whatever its type.

Builder The rule editor with the rule Act 1
Expression
Rule 1, Act 1: Applies to 
node.tags HAS "Act 1"

Before Before, with no appearance rules: every node in its type's own style. Rule: Act 1.
After After: Act 1 applies to node.tags HAS "Act 1".
Rule: Act 1

A fixed size for hubs

A fixed size for hubs

node.neighbor_count counts a node’s distinct neighbours, so this matches the four nodes with five or more: the Chapel of St. Brine, Port Varrow, Harbourmaster Corra Vane and Saltmarsh Cove. A fixed size of 80 px wins over the view’s automatic size; see automatic node size.

Builder The rule editor with the rule Hubs
Expression
Rule 1, Hubs: Applies to 
node.neighbor_count >= 5

Before Before, with no appearance rules: every node in its type's own style. Rule: Hubs.
After After: Hubs applies to node.neighbor_count >= 5.
Rule: Hubs

Badges

A badge on the smugglers

A badge on the smugglers

A badge without a count is a marker: every node tagged smugglers gets the skull and crossbones in its top-left corner.

Builder The rule editor with the rule Smugglers
Expression
Rule 1, Smugglers: Applies to 
node.tags HAS "smugglers"

Before Before, with no appearance rules: every node in its type's own style. Rule: Smugglers.
After After: Smugglers applies to node.tags HAS "smugglers".
Rule: Smugglers

A badge counting the clues that point at each node

A badge counting the clues that point at each node

The badge shows a badge count of distinct neighbours that are clues, counting only the connections that come in to the node, so it counts the clues that point at it. The Chapel of St. Brine shows 4. The Applies to asks for the same thing (at least one clue connected inbound), so a node no clue points at gets no badge rather than a 0. The camera is fitted around the chapel so the numbers are readable.

Builder The rule editor with the rule Clues pointing here
Expression
Rule 1, Clues pointing here: Applies to 
connected_to(node.type = "clue", direction: "in")

Rule 1, Clues pointing here: Top-right badge counted neighbours 
node.type = "clue"

Before Before, with no appearance rules: every node in its type's own style. Rule: Clues pointing here.
After After: Clues pointing here applies to connected_to(node.type = "clue", direction: "in").
Rule: Clues pointing here

Order

Two rules where order decides

Two rules where order decides

Both rules set a fill. Act 1 nodes turn blue and clues turn amber, and The Drowned Bell and the Cut bell-rope are both: they are clues tagged Act 1. The later rule wins, so they are amber. Move Clues above Act 1 and those two turn blue instead, while every other node keeps its colour. See rules and order.

Builder The rule editor with the rules Act 1 and Clues
Expression
Rule 1, Act 1: Applies to 
node.tags HAS "Act 1"

Rule 2, Clues: Applies to 
node.type = "clue"

Before Before, with no appearance rules: every node in its type's own style. Rules in order: Act 1, then Clues.
After After: Act 1 applies to node.tags HAS "Act 1"; Clues applies to node.type = "clue".
Rules in order: Act 1, then Clues