Forgotten Realms Interactive Atlas and Campaign Cartographer 3+
ChrisRevocateur
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So I recently acquired a copy of the Forgotten Realms Interactive Atlas, and I found that there's an installer that has Campaign Cartographer 3 versions of the assets for you to be able to use. I tried running it, and it says that it can't find Campaign Cartographer 3 (I have 3+ instead of 3).
Is there any way around this or am I stuck trying to rip the CC2 versions out of the Atlas?
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Monsen
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There isn't an installer for CC3+ currently. If you have CC3, you can install that, install the symbols and just copy the catalogs over, but there is no direct way unfortunately.
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Monsen
Administrator 🖼️ 46 images Cartographer
Check with support. If you already own CC3+, they might provide you a copy of CC3 or find another way to provide you with a solution for getting the symbols.
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Monsen
Administrator 🖼️ 46 images Cartographer
The only integration it provided was adding the symbols. Back then, we didn't have styles the way we have today, so it only added the symbols for use in overland, city and floorplan maps, no tools or templates.
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There isn't an installer for CC3+ currently. If you have CC3, you can install that, install the symbols and just copy the catalogs over, but there is no direct way unfortunately.
That's unfortunate. There is no way to get CC3 now except on eBay or something, is there?
Check with support. If you already own CC3+, they might provide you a copy of CC3 or find another way to provide you with a solution for getting the symbols.
So they did send me a copy, thank you for the suggestion, and now I have Forgotten Realms icons galore! Combined with Core Rules, the 2nd edition nostalgia is strong.
Second edition is the best :)
(Currently playing 2nd ed this weekend with my friends actually)
I started with 1st edition, but we had a 2nd ed DMG and monstrous compendium. We moved onto pure 2nd as soon as we got our hands on a 2nd ed PHB and it's the edition I first really dived into and played for years. I was really resistant when 3rd came out, took me a year to even try it.
I really want to play a 2nd ed game, but none of my RPG friends are grognards, or if they are they want to play OTHER ancient systems like Cyberpunk or Palladium.
So as I've been learning the software more and more, I figure this is a no, but I just want to make sure.
When this integrated with CC2Pro, did it add any default drawing styles, templates, etc, or is it literally just the icons? Is there anyone here that actually experienced the original integration of these two products (or, god forbid over 20 years later, originally coded the thing)? I know that the CC3 installer just gives the symbols, but I wanna know if there's any other FR goodness I'm missing.
Cc2pro is a separate program from cc3plus.
Both use the FastCAD engine.
Okay. Not sure how that has any relevance to the discussion. I'm quite literally acknowledging that they're separate programs. But since certain add-ons default to particular draw tools and such, I just wanted to know if there were certain defaults, templates, etc, or whatever added to CC2Pro by the Forgotten Realms Atlas so I can see if that set of exact draw tools, defaults, etc, is possible to emulate in CC3+.
The reason I ask is because as far as I can tell, this information would be in an .mnu file (I think, is that the one that determines what draw tools are presented?) and thus might just be a modification to a current file instead of an added one like the symbols are, and thus isn't just a file I can make a copy of.
The only integration it provided was adding the symbols. Back then, we didn't have styles the way we have today, so it only added the symbols for use in overland, city and floorplan maps, no tools or templates.
Because of the way your previous post said integrated with cc2pro. I could be mistaken.
Yeah, it had direct integration with CC2Pro just by having both installed. You have to download a completely separate installer for the CC3 version. I was just making sure that the CC3 version gives you all the same things the CC2Pro version of it did, and according to the answer, it does.
Cc2 and cc3plus are separate and should never be installed in the same folder. They don't work together.
Cc3 is indeed an improvement over cc2. And cc3plus is an improvement over the other two. But they aren't compatible with each other.
You can import a cc2 or cc3 fcw map file into cc3plus, but once you makes alterations only available in cc3plus, the map file won't work well with the previous versions.
You aren't getting what I'm talking about at all. That's okay though, I got my question answered. Have a good day.