No Tents in CD3?
Dogtag
Moderator, Betatester Traveler
I recently found myself in a common situation. I needed to map out a djinn encampment on an Earth pocket within the Plane of Elemental Fire. You know how that goes. Anyhow, I started making a battle map of the camp's control center, following some general guidelines from Annual 21 (love the Annual, btw) and things were looking pretty nice, even with my poor mapping skills. But then I found I needed some tents. I mean, everyone knows that djinn pitch big tents in their temporary military encampments, right? Unfortunately I couldn't find any bitmap symbols for tents. I had the old CC2 (or Pro?) vector symbols but no bitmaps. I found the Middle East symbols in the CD3 A catalogs but there were no tents. Did I miss them, or do we not have them in CD3?
Thanks.
For the curious, here's the map I made. It took me an hour or two to make (see "poor mapping skills", above). It worked well enough for our virtual table top game (using Klooge Werks), but you can see how the vector tents really stand out.
Thanks.
For the curious, here's the map I made. It took me an hour or two to make (see "poor mapping skills", above). It worked well enough for our virtual table top game (using Klooge Werks), but you can see how the vector tents really stand out.
Comments
Anyone? Beuller?
Thanks again,
~Dogtag
It's a good idea for a future annual perhaps.
@Leonal: I agree, it might make a nice Annual entry.
I guess I'm disappointed that we don't have CD3 counterparts to all the CD Pro symbols. It means I might not be able to recreate all my CD Pro maps using the newer product. At least, not without making some of the new maps look strange by using the lower-detailed and cartoony-looking vector symbols. I don't have anything against vector symbols but let's face it, they don't always mix well with bitmapped symbols. It also means that if I were to give CD3 as a gift, then my friend would not be able to map a nomad camp, but he could if I gave him CD Pro instead.
Don't get me wrong, I love ProFantasy products. I've got darn near all of 'em, going back 10 years or more. I suppose its a kind of irony that the high-quality, attention to detail, and world-class customer service that I've always experienced from ProFantasy makes this more disappointing than it would be otherwise. *shrug*
It's the first time I've tried to create a symbol catalogue for distribution, so there's no guarantee.
Click here to get the .zip file - installation instructions (if they work) are in the zip.
Also, the URL in your readme did not work. There is an extra t in there.
my symbols and templates page
I'll redefine the symbols and fix the readme when I rework the PNGs (there's a bit of white pixellation around the current versions).
I was working from CA14, which recommends middle left for origins; should have figured that that's only to attach things to walls in DD.
And thanks for sharing yours, too Jim. While I have been making maps like the above for my virtual table-top sessions, I still use CC2-style maps for other things!
On another note; A varicolor version of the tents would be nice.
If I can't find it, I'll ask.
Edit: I found it.