Annual Issue 15 - Heraldry Symbols
I haven't used CC3+ in a few years and recently reinstalled everything on a new machine. I was trying to create some heraldry for a game I'm running and when I opened the Charges symbols everything grinds to a snail's crawl. I checked to ensure sheet effects were off but something is happening that seems to make it try to constantly redraw the symbol. Has anyone else run into this? I'm happy to provide any additional info folks might need if ya'll can help me troubleshoot this.
Thanks in advance (also sorry if this isn't in the right category - was torn between Product Question and Community Support)
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I have the same experience with the heraldry annual. I wonder if it’s because they are vector symbols with many nodes? (I think they’re vector symbols.)
Yes, the charges are vector symbols, with many nodes. There are also multiple entities in every symbol - lines and polygons - and the symbols are set up to go onto multiple sheets too. That does all make things run slower than normal, as the symbol is redrawn after every movement of the mouse. Irritating, but just how it is, unfortunately.
We probably need an annual updating this, with non vector symbols, and also more in the way of stuff on top and bottom of shield.
@Ralf
I would love that! Including more dragon heraldry symbols, if the artist is taking requests.
I mean, it's beyond irritating... it's unusable (on my machine). It takes literal seconds every time the mouse moves to try to redraw everything. Is there anything I can do on my end so it behaves differently? Hide sheets? I dunno.
Here's a link to a thread with heraldry images that I did a few years ago.
https://forum.profantasy.com/discussion/5808/shessars-cc3-art-assets/p2
These are not all inclusive but offer many options for charges. There are many more images than what is shown for illustration. Free to use. If Pro-Fantasy would like to host them along with the Fireplaces that I did, they are welcome to. I did a lot of work on these images and the link to them is long forgotten on a very old thread. These are .png images that are vari-color. Hope someone finds them useful again. 🙂
I don't find it takes quite that long on my PC, but certainly it isn't as quick as "normal" symbols.
I suspect the only way you might speed things up would be to amend every one of the symbols using Symbol Manager in CC3+ so that all parts of the symbol go on one sheet, while it still looks the same. This would prevent adjusting the features of each symbol that are currently on separate sheets using sheet effects, although you could still adjust the appearance of the symbol as a whole using effects on whichever sheet the whole symbol is on.
That would be a lot of work per symbol, and you would be best advised to store the amended versions in a separate, new, symbol catalogue, so as not to change the original symbols in case you might want to use those again, or in case something goes wrong with the changes you've been trying to make.
On the whole, Shessar's excellent artwork options might be preferable all-round, however!