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Hi everyone.
I have just bought CC3 as I am designing a Fantasy boardgame. Can somebody please help me. I need to draw a reasonably thick path with squares on it. I would like it to be filled with cobbles or something similiar.
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Welshboy
I have just bought CC3 as I am designing a Fantasy boardgame. Can somebody please help me. I need to draw a reasonably thick path with squares on it. I would like it to be filled with cobbles or something similiar.
Thanks
Welshboy
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do you have only CC3 or also Dungeon Designer 3?
I have the whole fantasy package.
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If you started out with a DD3 map for the board, use one of DD3's floor tools (Right click the Floor button), and grab the cobble floor. You can then draw your path as a polygon using this tool. For the squares, you may be able to use CC3's grid feature (Draw -> Hex or Square overlay). If you click the select points button in this dialog, you can easily limit the grid to a small part of your map, and not fill the entire map with the grid. You can easily change the color and with of this grid afterwards with Change Properties (You may need to Thaw the grid layer first, since it is normally frozen)
If you did not start out with a DD3 template, you can import the DD3 fill styles into your drawing by going to Drawing -> Insert file, then select a DD3 map, and insert it into your current drawing. Then immediately Undo (ctrl+Z or Edit-> Undo), and the inserted map will be removed again, but the fill styles will remain. If you don't have a DD3 map to insert, create one. You don't need to draw anything on it, just create a new DD3 map using the wizard, save it, and use that for the insertion.
For this I created a new drawing tool in a DD3 map first:
- start a 100x80 feet DD3 Dungeon map
- right-click the Floor drawing tool button.
- click Advanced
- select the tool "Floor, Cobble Grey, Stright"
- click new and name the new tool "Floor, Cobble Grey, Smooth Path"
- choose "Open" for the closure, and under Options choose "Smooth"
- click Properties and set the line width to 5.000
- Click ok, save the tool and Ok again to start drawing your cobbled path (5 feet wide).
If this is going in the right direction for you, let me know and I'll explain how to do the squares on the path
Thats exactly what I need, maybe with the "squares" a bit bolder. I need the game board about 4xA4 by 2xA4 size, thats about 30x20 inches if you're from over the big pond! Will I then be able to use the tool in a CC3 overland map? and will it come out the right size? I love CC3 it's amazing!
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Welshman
I placed the squares on their own sheet and applied a Transparency effect to the sheet. If you do that yourself, you can control exactly how transparent the squares should be.
To use the drawing tool in an overland map, you first need to import the DD3 fills into the map. Monsen describes that above. It would then be easiest to take an existing drawing tool (for example a Road tool) and make the same adjustments to it, as I described above for the Floor tool.
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I've been going through the tutorials and I've learned quite a bit. I've tried importing the the above cobbled floor path into CC3 but cant seem to get it to work, how do I go about it?
Also, I've been making my gameboard by following the youtube tutorial, my map has a coastline on west and the rest is land. When I use the sheets and effects to get the "blending" on the coastline it ends up applying to the edges of the land on the north, east and south. How do I stop that happening?
One more thing (sorry!), how do you the sheets and effects to apply to conours lands objescts that you draw later on? ie I draw a contour shape and apply sheets and effects to it, which looks great, I then later on draw another contour in but the sheets and effects doesn't seem tp apply to it.
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Guiy
To prevent effects on edges at the map border, you need to tinker a bit with the map border. Look at my reply in this thread for an answer I gave another user a few days ago about the same issue.
As for your first question. What exactly is it that you can't get to work about it? Any specific steps that gives you trouble?
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As for the other file, that is a symbol catalog, so just save it to your drive, then open it with the open symbol catalog button.