Noobie - Questions
Hello alltogether,
recently i bought the CC3 programm with the addons CD 3 and DD 3 as bundle. Since than i tryed to get into the software with different tutorials. But there are a lot of questions that come up from time to time and the search-function of the forum does not really helped me, so i hope you will be able to help me with that questions.
1. When i have created houses with the random-street-function and have erased them with the erase-function there are left white spaces. When i than press the redraw-function nothing happens. When i than press any other option, the houses return where they where.
What is wrong?
Thanks for your time
recently i bought the CC3 programm with the addons CD 3 and DD 3 as bundle. Since than i tryed to get into the software with different tutorials. But there are a lot of questions that come up from time to time and the search-function of the forum does not really helped me, so i hope you will be able to help me with that questions.
1. When i have created houses with the random-street-function and have erased them with the erase-function there are left white spaces. When i than press the redraw-function nothing happens. When i than press any other option, the houses return where they where.
What is wrong?
Thanks for your time
Comments
It sounds like you're not actually completing the process of erasing them. After you select the houses you want to erase, are you right-clicking and selecting 'do it'?
@ Blackadder23: You helped me alot with this. I only marked them and hasn`t klick on "Do it". Thanks for it. :-)
There may be will be more questions in Future, i will post them here and hope there will be that good help like today. I will do my first map and present it in future to you.
THX
As Blackadder23 said, welcome to CC3 and the forum.
Don't forget to try the tutorials in The Essentials guide or in the User Manual.
The Essentials guide is a great overview of the most common and important parts of CC3. It explains some of the unfamiliar ways to use the tools, especially if you are accustomed to traditional "paint" programs. The map tutorial is fun. You learn basic functions and you also create a nice little map. The tutorial starts around p. 14 but I recommend reading through the whole document — it's a small document but it contains a lot of good information. If you bought the physical CD/DVD, a printed copy should have been included in the disc case. Also, a typical CC3 installation (from a physical disc or a direct-download) has an electronic (PDF) version in the \ProFantasy\CC3\Documentation folder. Also, the CC3 User Manual might be installed there as well. If not, you can download PDF copies of both documents from your registration page.
The User Manual has pretty much the same tutorial as The Essentials but with a few extra bits of information. The real power of the User Manual, I've found, is in the rest of the information it contains. For example, it has detailed information about sheets (p.44) and each of the effects (pp. 46-53)!
CC3 and DD3 also have their own The Essentials guides, with tutorials to help you learn the new features of each add-on. The tutorials are fun to do.
And, of course, if you still have questions, the forum is a great place to come.
Happy mapping!
~Dogtag
https://www.youtube.com/user/joesweeney88/videos
The PDF guides are good but they can be a little overwhelming to some as they have so much info in them. Additionally, one of the tutorials in the Tome of Ultimate mapping had an error in it and the images in, this was pointed out on the forums a few months back. (It was the copying and pasting part of a larger area map into another map to make a separate area map detailed map of the copied portion.)
Also, don't be surprised if you once or twice each year find your self redoing certain basic tutorials as you may not use a feature you did in afew tutorials and then forget about it months latter.
I am now at the phase where i should use a photoshop plugin: "oilpaint filter" to make a more handpanted style of the map. But i dont own PS and i have not the money to buy it at the moment. I tryed different filters of gimp. But they where not that good as this oil paint filter. Do you know if there is any free software withe nearly the same effect?
My second question concerns the mapborders. Are there any "ready-to-use" mapborders in CC3 or CD3 that i can use? Where can i find them and use them?
Thank you for help
http://gmic.eu/index.shtml
You can also try using Project Dogwaffle it has a free version and you can download added additional ffre filters for it.
http://www.thebest3d.com/dogwaffle/