Suggestions for drawing small-scale overland maps?

Mike · February 2009

Hello,

I'm trying to design a small area for the start of a D&D campaign I've recently begun. While CC3 does a great job of drawing a large overland area, it seems a bit off when trying to draw the immediate area--say, an area of 25 miles x 25 miles. The symbols don't really scale very well at that level... though I'm sure I'm doing something wrong, or missing out on some possibilities.

Any suggestions?

-M.

bonzer · February 2009

Hello Mike,
if you have it, you might get some joy from using CD3.

Otherwise, did you know that when you have a symbol selected, on the map, and awaiting placement, you can hold down the CTRL button and by then moving the mouse up or down the stmbol scales in size up or down.

Further to that, if you also hold down SHIFT and move the mouse round, the symbol will rotate.

Hope this helps.
Bonzer

jaerdaph · February 2009

Also, if you have a symbol selected on the map awaiting placement, you can right click and change the symbol size on the Symbol Parameters dialog box that pops up:

http://www.profantasy.com/cchelp/inserting_symbols.htm

You can also change the default symbol scale for your map under Drawing Properties:

http://www.profantasy.com/cchelp/drawing_properties.htm

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