Making a city with City Designer 3 in an overland map created using Campaign Cartographer 3
Hello,
I have recently got into creating cities with City Designer 3 and wanted to add them to my existing maps but I ran into a few problems. As a note what I'm trying to do may not be possible so please let me know if that's the case.
I created an overland map detailing a closer look at a section of coastline where I want to create my city.
What I am trying to do is create the city here, but when I try and access the CD3 terrain tools they look like this.
They usually look like this:
The same thing happens when I try and access Overland terraign on a City map.
The details in the terrain textures seem to disappear. I'm not sure what would be causing this texture issue
Is there a way that I can have both of the terrain textures loaded in so that I can create the city more seamlessly into the landscape?
If somebody knows a fix for this, please let me know.
Comments
It is possible, but I don't recommend it. Making a city map on an overland map adds a lot of small details in one spot. This tends to just look like a mess when you are zoomed out to enjoy the overland map itself.
Additionally, city maps tends to get a bit heavy, so adding multiple of them to the same map isn't a very good idea performance wise either.
And you will need to do some manual tweaking regarding sheet setup, since overland maps doesn't have the same default sheet setup as city maps.
Instead, I recommend you use a regular city symbol and map the city as a separate map. Add a hyperlink to the city symbol instead, so you can click it to go to the city map.
A lighter and better way of making a city on an overland map is to actually combine multiple overland city symbols. This doesn't give you the same fine control over houses and streets, but it still look like a city, similar to these maps here:
As for your actual question, have a look at this FAQ topic:
I've done it. But I don't recommend it. The symbols have to be adjusted to fit the map.