CC3 Functionality: Questions Before Purchasing
I am hoping that CC3 can do what I want. I am trying to map a world. I have about 10 individual hand drawn maps that are all of different scale (1cm=Xmi). I want to scan them, then trace them and construct them in CC3. If I create scans of the maps, can I use the scans as a background sheet with the scale of the map? Then trace them and put in all the various symbols and text and things for the individual maps?
Is there a way to define lattitude and longitude by using the grid? If the world is basically spherical and two of the maps I have are of the polar regions, can they have gridlines that converge at the poles?
What I want to end up with is the various seperate maps and then some kind of spherical map or globe rendered using the maps that I have drawn. I know the radius of the planet, so I should be able to figue out how the lat/long should go from the equator to the poles, and so I know where to place the various continents relative to each other.
Can this be done with CC3? I have Fractal Mapper 7, but I have Windows 7 (64bit) and it seems like it will be difficult to get FM7 to work and it looked like CC3 has more features anyway. I am pretty sure I can do the scanning/tracing of the individual maps using sheets, but my big question is how difficult is it to combine them into a world map and have lat/long be correct as a grid instead of a flat grid.
Thanks,
Cosmic Bob
Is there a way to define lattitude and longitude by using the grid? If the world is basically spherical and two of the maps I have are of the polar regions, can they have gridlines that converge at the poles?
What I want to end up with is the various seperate maps and then some kind of spherical map or globe rendered using the maps that I have drawn. I know the radius of the planet, so I should be able to figue out how the lat/long should go from the equator to the poles, and so I know where to place the various continents relative to each other.
Can this be done with CC3? I have Fractal Mapper 7, but I have Windows 7 (64bit) and it seems like it will be difficult to get FM7 to work and it looked like CC3 has more features anyway. I am pretty sure I can do the scanning/tracing of the individual maps using sheets, but my big question is how difficult is it to combine them into a world map and have lat/long be correct as a grid instead of a flat grid.
Thanks,
Cosmic Bob
Comments
The internal coordinate system in CC3 is always square, and grids can only be rectangular, isometric or hexagonal. If you need anything other than that, you will need to draw it yourself. There is nothing stopping you from manually drawing any kind of grid you want though, although you cannot get automatic snap points for these (But that is usually not used for overland maps anyway). Creating a longitude/latitude grid can be done by drawing a series of slightly curved lines on the grid sheet.
CC3 also only draw flat maps, so it cannot make/render your map to arbitrary map projections, you will just have to draw the map in the desired projection manually. If you wish to work with globes however, Fractal Terrains might be of interest to you.
I don't have latitude and longitude grids, I just arbitrarily added several latitude lines. Well, I measured, and I think I got them correct.
Monsen got the rest.
In truth, I wish that I'd done a rectangular projection when I started rather than the interrupted one.
Steve
I have used them to create quick worlds, as hexagon symbols with basic land types comes with it.
Here are two on my sites: Shass, mystery planet and Tok Tol
Both are home planets for characters on my starship site
Suppose I have my scanned map image as a background and want to put a grid on it. And suppose I want this grid to have an intersection at a specific point in the middle of my scanned map and then have the grid built from there with specific spacing, corresponding to my flat projection. Can I do that, or do I need to draw the lines on my scanned image first? I'd like to use the grid feature of CC3 if possible.
I'm going to give it a try once I get the software and get it installed.
Thanks,
Note that grids are regular, with each "cell" being square and of the same size (but you can make this size anything you need). As long as this fits your map, you can use the grid feature. If not, you will need to draw the individual lines that make up your grid manually (And then optionally group them to keep them together)