I want to add ships to the docks area of my D&D map, I'm having trouble working this out. Does anybody know any good resources for this esp tutorials or a source of ship/boat symbols.
You can download several ship symbols from the ProFantasy website, here. They're vector symbols but you can still use them, or use them as a guide for making raster ships & boats.
There is an amazing FREE sample of a ship map/layout that you can download from the ProFantasy website, here. It's large (for battle map style maps) but you could certainly resize it or adapt it somehow.
There is also an issue of the Cartographer’s Annual made specifically for fantasy/wooden sailing ships, which you can see here. Again, however, this is mostly for battle map-level maps. And note that individual issues of the annual are not sold separately, so you would need to purchase the entire volume, but it comes with eleven other amazing issues. ProFantasy is in the middle of converting earlier annuals, such as this one, to be compatible with CC3+ but it will be a few weeks, at least, before that volume of the annual is done. It is, however, compatible with CC3, which you can install side-by-side with CC3+ on you computer, if you want to.
And there may be even more options in 3rd-party symbol sets, such as the Vintyri collections or CSUAC, and others. I honestly don't know that much about them but you can check them out yourself and there are several other folks on the forum who might be able to chime in with more about them.
<blockquote><cite>Posted By: Dogtag</cite>You can download several ship symbols from the ProFantasy website,<a href="https://secure.profantasy.com/library/default.asp?Keyword=ship&PP=9&Start=55&Image=54&OrderBy=">here</a>. They're vector symbols but you can still use them, or use them as a guide for making raster ships & boats.
There is an amazing FREE sample of a ship map/layout that you can download from the ProFantasy website,<a href="https://secure.profantasy.com/library/default.asp?Keyword=ship&PP=9&Start=1&Image=2&OrderBy=">here</a>. It's large (for battle map style maps) but you could certainly resize it or adapt it somehow.
There is also an issue of the Cartographer’s Annual made specifically for fantasy/wooden sailing ships, which you can see<a href="http://www.profantasy.com/annual/2009/march09.html">here</a>. Again, however, this is mostly for battle map-level maps. And note that individual issues of the annual are not sold separately, so you would need to purchase the entire volume, but it comes with eleven other amazing issues. ProFantasy is in the middle of converting earlier annuals, such as this one, to be compatible with CC3+ but it will be a few weeks, at least, before that volume of the annual is done. It is, however, compatible with CC3, which you can install side-by-side with CC3+ on you computer, if you want to.
And there may be even more options in<a href="http://forum.profantasy.com/comments.php?DiscussionID=1230&page=1#Item_1">3rd-party symbol sets</a>, such as the Vintyri collections or CSUAC, and others. I honestly don't know that much about them but you can check them out yourself and there are several other folks on the forum who might be able to chime in with more about them.
Cheers,
~Dogtag</blockquote>
I just came across this post while searching for ship drawing tips.
Sadly the links no longer seem valid.
Any chance someone can point me to what I need to use these for DD3?
I found this thread when I was searching for ship maps. In know it was said that the Library was removed, but I have been able to follow the links so I think it has been reinstated since last August.
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There is an amazing FREE sample of a ship map/layout that you can download from the ProFantasy website, here. It's large (for battle map style maps) but you could certainly resize it or adapt it somehow.
There is also an issue of the Cartographer’s Annual made specifically for fantasy/wooden sailing ships, which you can see here. Again, however, this is mostly for battle map-level maps. And note that individual issues of the annual are not sold separately, so you would need to purchase the entire volume, but it comes with eleven other amazing issues. ProFantasy is in the middle of converting earlier annuals, such as this one, to be compatible with CC3+ but it will be a few weeks, at least, before that volume of the annual is done. It is, however, compatible with CC3, which you can install side-by-side with CC3+ on you computer, if you want to.
And there may be even more options in 3rd-party symbol sets, such as the Vintyri collections or CSUAC, and others. I honestly don't know that much about them but you can check them out yourself and there are several other folks on the forum who might be able to chime in with more about them.
Cheers,
~Dogtag
Mike
There is an amazing FREE sample of a ship map/layout that you can download from the ProFantasy website,<a href="https://secure.profantasy.com/library/default.asp?Keyword=ship&PP=9&Start=1&Image=2&OrderBy=">here</a>. It's large (for battle map style maps) but you could certainly resize it or adapt it somehow.
There is also an issue of the Cartographer’s Annual made specifically for fantasy/wooden sailing ships, which you can see<a href="http://www.profantasy.com/annual/2009/march09.html">here</a>. Again, however, this is mostly for battle map-level maps. And note that individual issues of the annual are not sold separately, so you would need to purchase the entire volume, but it comes with eleven other amazing issues. ProFantasy is in the middle of converting earlier annuals, such as this one, to be compatible with CC3+ but it will be a few weeks, at least, before that volume of the annual is done. It is, however, compatible with CC3, which you can install side-by-side with CC3+ on you computer, if you want to.
And there may be even more options in<a href="http://forum.profantasy.com/comments.php?DiscussionID=1230&page=1#Item_1">3rd-party symbol sets</a>, such as the Vintyri collections or CSUAC, and others. I honestly don't know that much about them but you can check them out yourself and there are several other folks on the forum who might be able to chime in with more about them.
Cheers,
~Dogtag</blockquote>
I just came across this post while searching for ship drawing tips.
Sadly the links no longer seem valid.
Any chance someone can point me to what I need to use these for DD3?
Here is where I found it;
https://secure.profantasy.com/library/
I have shared that link with the person on who's behalf I was looking. I've also given him the link to the library generally.
Searched for 'ship' with Dungeon Designer 3 as the product and saw several. One in profile.
Didn't click on the rest to see what they included. Two were for Traveller.