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CA62 Overland Satellite Style

pdjpdj Traveler
in Mapping with ProFantasy's Software
In the mapping guide for CA62 it says, with reference to the Cosmographer 3 satellite view stuff,
"you can combine the two Satellite style views into one comprehensive package. If you are
interested in this, please let us know on the Profantasy Forum"

Well, I'm interested :)

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  • Mateus090985Mateus090985 Traveler
    So do I! Thank you for reminding! Lets see if anyone can help us with a tutorial.
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  • RalfRalf Administrator, ProFantasy 🖼️ 18 images Mapmaker
    Okay, here goes.

    Let's start with the template from Issue 62 and add the climate textures from Issue 60a to it.

    - Make sure you have both Annuals (60A and 62) installed.
    - Go to CC3/Templates/Overland Maps/Wizard/ and open "Annual Overland Satellite.FCT" or "Annual Overland Satellite (metric).FCT" in CC3.
    - Do "Draw > Insert File" and add CC3/System/Fill Styles/CA60A_TextureFills.FCW to the drawing. This adds the bitmap fill styles.
    - Undo. This gets rid of the fill entities, but keeps the imported fill styles.
    - Save and close the drawing
    - Open Windows Explorer and go to CC3/Annual/Issue 60a - Climate Textures. Copy all files from there to CC3/System/Drawtools/Annual Overland Satellite/. This adds the drawing tools from Annual 60A to the style from Annual 62.


    And that's it, you now have all the fills and tools from Annual 60a available in the "Annual Overland Satellite" style from Issue 62.
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  • pdjpdj Traveler
    Thank you Ralf, that is indeed very useful, but it was specifically the Cosmographer 3 textures that were mentioned in the mapping guide. I had imagined the author to have some clever way to integrate them
    without including all the other fills there are in Fill Styles/Cosmographer.FCW
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  • RalfRalf Administrator, ProFantasy 🖼️ 18 images Mapmaker
    Ah, right I misremembered the original idea a bit, only thinking about the Annuals. To avoid including the Cosmo deckplan textures in the final map, do it this way:

    - Open cc3/templates/cosmographer/wizard/Overland Satellite Map.FCT instead of the Annual Overland Satellite template.
    - Import the "CA60A_TextureFills.FCW" and "CA62 Fill Styles.FCW" into the template to get the fill styles from the two Annuals.
    - Copy the drawing tools over from "CC3/Annual/Issue 60a - Climate Textures" and "CC3/System/Drawtools/Annual Overland Satellite/" over to "CC3/System/Drawtools/Cosmographer Satellite Overland".

    You've now intregrated the textures and tools from the two Annuals into the Cosmographer style.
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  • pdjpdj Traveler
    Many thanks :)

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