Fantasy Floorplans, City Designer, Dungeon Designer, (could go on) - which to choose?

HelenAA · July 2015

I've been looking around in the forums and as yet I haven't found anyone who is saying anything overly keen on FP and my dilemma is that I can't shake the 'beneath-the-earth' connotations with the word Dungeons.

If I outline what I want to map maybe someone can suggest a route that isn't going to cost me a packet.

I want to have a cityscape and some light and airy floor plans of a few houses in the city.

I don't know how brown-dark all the symbols are in Dungeon Designer are, though going by the samples included in CC3 & CC3+, I'm guessing they're much darker than I want for the floorplan. Going by the samples of houses included in CC3, orange is the dominant colour there - not the shade I want. I've looked at the Modern Symbol set but I'm not sure about that either, and the floors in the Fantasy Floorplan examples are brown which is the same problem I have with Dungeons.

If anyone could suggest a route to achieve the goals I'd be most appreciative.

Helen

JimP · July 2015

Some symbols in the symbol sets are vari-color. Which means what ever the active color in the color picker dialog is, that is what the symbol, or some part of the symbol, will be drawn in that color.

I have used this to show royalty, military, etc. areas of a town or city.

Ralf · July 2015

City Designer really offers any kind of roof color and bitmaps fills. Orange is just the default one for the vector styles. Here is an example of a street scene with roofs, done with a mix of CD3 and DD3:

As for a lighter floorplan style, how about SS4? Mike Schley's stuff is lighter in color, and also (as almost all our symbols) comes in varicolor variations:

HelenAA · July 2015

Thanks for your comments, Ralf and JimP. Very helpful.

HelenAA · July 2015

How do you get the walls?

johnjameson · July 2015

hello. not sure where to put this thread or if anyone will respond to it. I am currently TRYING... and no very successfully to try and make maps for Pathfinder and DnD 4e. At this point the problem I currently have is the resizing of maps for CC3/Dungeon Designer. If anyone can assist me, please contact me at johntjamesonjr@gmail.com on Skype. might beeasier to do that. Thank you for your time.

John.

Ralf · July 2015

@HelenAA, there is a Walls drawing tool on the left-hand toolbar. RIght-clicking it will bring up a ton of different options for walls. And if you then click the "Advanced" button you can also create your own.

@John, it will be better if you open a new thread for your help request and describe a little more closely what you are currently trying to do.

HelenAA · July 2015

Thanks @Ralf. I'm using a Symbol Set for the first time and am still finding my feet.

ProFantasy Community Forum

Fantasy Floorplans, City Designer, Dungeon Designer, (could go on) - which to choose?

Comments