Wood Walls
Hi, I'm a newcomer to this forum. I am surprised to see that in DD3 there are no wood walls available. If I select a wood floor fill for my wall then it has planks and nails that don't fit a wall. I have read an existing discussion on wood walls but when I follow the instructions for creating a new type of wall I am again just finding wood floors available for my fill. I think I must be missing something, surely it is possible to design a floor plan with wood walls? Your help would be appreciated.
Comments
There are some wood wall fills in the free Jonathan Roberts dungeon annual, showing the tops of standing beams, which may or may not be what you need.. There are also fills appropriate for wooden walls in Symbol Set 2 and Symbol Set 4.
- In CC3 (including any of the add-ons), press F1.
- Click the Index tab.
- In the text field, type import
- Double-click bitmaps as fill style in the list.
Again, it's not as nice as having the fills we want built into the software, but it does still give us flexibility.The online help displays.
Note: If you don't see the tab, click the Show button in the upper left.
The index list will filter as you type.
The Creating and Importing PNGs and Bitmaps as Fill Styles topic displays. Another helpful topic you can click from that list is pngs and bitmaps as fills.
Cheers,
~Dogtag
I'd rather not buy an annual right now having just purchased CC3+, DD3, and symbol set 2. I'm unfamiliar with the CSUAC add-ons.
I would like something like the walls for the Manticore's Tale Tavern. I'll take a shot at creating a png and importing it as Dogtag suggested.
Thanks everyone, if you have any other ideas or info I'd appreciate it.
Where? any location or source!
The ships annual is the March issue of the 2009 Cartographer's Annual. It was recently updated in the 2021 Cartographer's Annual here:
https://www.profantasy.com/annual/2021/2021-cartographers-annual.asp#April
Over the last 5 years since that suggestion there have been many more styles that may contain non-plank wood. I used Symbol Set 4 (Dungeon's of Schley) just recently and created wood walls using the non-plank wood textures it contains.
That can be found here:
https://www.profantasy.com/products/ss4.asp#&panel1-5
Bear in mind, however, that all wood textures have a certain directional quality to them, so you may have to chose which way you want the grain to go. As far as I remember there are vertical and horizontal versions of all wood textures in SS4.
I had no idea that the source maps contained any tools. I may have to play around with those.