Import from CC3+ to Fractal

Terenn

Hello,

I am a very new user so apologies if this is basic...

Is there the ability to import an existing CC3+ map into Fractal Terrains 3?

I do not have Fractal yet and am considering it for adding topo to maps. It would be nice to be able to take a map that has many hours of work in it and use it in Fractal versus starting from scratch. That said, the only post I can find about moving data from CC3 to Fractal is dated 2009 so I thought I would check to see if this has changed since then before purchasing.

Thanks!

Loopysue

Not directly, no.

Unless you have a heightmap already that you can import to FT3, the only way you can do it is to export a bitmap from your CC3 map and import that as an image overlay into FT3, then hand sculpt the landmass.

This is a lot easier if your world map is already approximately equirectangular in basic proportion - twice as wide as it is tall.

I covered this process in some detail in the Supplemental Notes to the November issue of the 2019 Cartographer's Annual here: The Cartographer's Annual 2019 (profantasy.com) but you will have to buy the annual to get at them.