How to take some part of your map into another (new) one?

Medio

Greetings all.

I have used (just not too much) CC2 and now i´m a proud owner of CC3. I´m currently making a big fantasy world map - my campaign one, then i realized i wanted to make smaller, more detailed maps for every country i have in there.

I was hoping that CC3 let me "cut" some part of the map and "paste" it into a new made map, but for example i want to take some continent part, just not all continent. Is there any way of "selecting" some part of your maps and copy them into a new map? Is there ANY way of just copying parts of your maps into another ones? Thanks in advance.

PS: i just checked the manual and i found one part talking about it about the editting and using Trace - pages 40 and 41-, but even with the example i didn´t get it well (English isn´t my native language so it makes it even harder to understand).

Monsen

There is a tutorial for doing this in the "Map makers chest". You can find it by logging in to your registration area, then look for the "Map-Maker's Chest" link in the right column. Once here, you should find a tutorial called "Local Map from Regional Map", which explains the process.

The basic premise behind this is simply to copy the elements you wish to the new map, then use the cut and trim commands to remove everything outside the map border of your smaller map, then using fractalize to add more details to the zoomed-in map.

JimP

And my method, it has maps and pngs to show how.

saving pieces discussion in these forums.

Medio

Thanks alot Monsen for the tip, will check it right now.

Bidmaron

As often as this request comes up, you'd think that ProFantasy would be working on a tool to automate the process (wish... wish...). This question gets asked and answered at least once a week. (and that's not counting the times when someone actually searches for the method before asking).