Cosmographer 3+ ... Any time soon?
For a long time now it has been a weekly ritual to check for an update to Cosmographer 3 or some news as to when it may be available. Alas, there is not much information on that front. Is there an expected time frame for the 3+ update?
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So, has there been any movement on the Cosmographer 3+ update? Like soon, sometime this year, next year, or too far out to speculate?
Many thanks.
Internal lift, scale 0.1 to fit. 1.0 is too big.
Snap doesn't match the template grid. Slightly off to the right and up on the deckplan. Not by much though.
Using Cosmographer Deckplans, Traveller. Beowulf.
I'll post a png export when its more complete. I have installed the Dundjinni symbols yet. It wont be a complete ship as its just a test deckplan.
Mark, I was wondering if I can just copy the symbols and mnu files from one hard drive to another ? Or will that cause problems ?
Everything of ours ... just like everything of ProFantasy's ... has to be in (Data Folders)\Profantasy\CC3Plus. I don't know what one has to do to change the location of (Data Folders)\Profantasy\CC3Plus. Joe Slayton probably could tell you. Perhaps Remy or Ralf too. My guess, and it could be totally wrong, is that the answer is in:
Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Evolution Computing\CampaignCartographer3Plus
There's a key there named "Bookmark File." It points to:
(Data Folders)\Profantasy\CC3Plus\BOOKMARK.BRM
For example:
C:\Program Data\Profantasy\CC3Plus\BOOKMARK.BRM
It could be that changing that path would re-identify the location of the data folders for CC3+. There is, by the way, no visible file there named BOOKMARK.BRM. However, Joe might laugh and tell me I'm all wet on that one.
In any case, if you change the identification of the Data Folders location, you would have to move the complete data folders to the new drive.
Once there, things should work. The add-ons from the Vintyri Project, like ProFantasy products, use no hard definitions of the data location but instead use @ character to represent (Data Folders)\Profantasy\CC3Plus. (In CC3 it was the # character.)
The location of the data folder is found in the file @.ini, found in your CC3+ installation directory (Which always is found in C:\program files (x86)\ProFantasy\CC3Plus) [Program files may be localized to your language, and the x86 part isn't present on 32-bit versions of windows]
Note that nothing in the data folders refer to this location, so if you have the files in your data folder on your old computer, then yes, you can simply copy it to the data folder on your new computer, even if they are in different location. Watch the menu files though, since they are modified by add-ons, just copying them over may cause problems if you had more add-ons on the destination than the source. Generally copying over resources (symbols, fills, etc) like this is fine, but I would be careful with menus.
In a related comment, the bookmark file is a little used function of CCx, but it can be quite usefull, as you can define a bookmark file filled with links to various maps for quick access. There are buttons for bookmarks, next bookmark, and previous bookmark on the main CC3 toolbar.
Note that the only items I'm copying over manually are the DJ and Vintyri symbols and menus. The Profantasy items are all being installed via the installer programs they came with.