2 duplicate questions from the Yahoo list
Hello, All,
I am contemplating buying several packages. Please excuse the "new" questions-- I have perused the site samples and just wanted to confirm two things:
(1) As near as I can make out form the website, if I buy CC3, it will be backward-compatible with all previous CC2 map publications and products? Is that correct?
(2) If I buy the fractal mapper and all of the packages right from "world scale" down to "city scale", would I be able to make a series of "linked" maps that would let me "zoom" from continental level down through countries, regions, cities and down to a street and its associated buildings, and the finally into my floor plans? In other words, I'd like to be able to click on a "hotspot" on a continent, zoom in, and continue the process down to floorplan level. Can this be done?
Thanks in advance for the advice. Before I lay out hundreds for packages, I wanted to be sure that the modules could interface to produce the desired effects.
Ron
I am contemplating buying several packages. Please excuse the "new" questions-- I have perused the site samples and just wanted to confirm two things:
(1) As near as I can make out form the website, if I buy CC3, it will be backward-compatible with all previous CC2 map publications and products? Is that correct?
(2) If I buy the fractal mapper and all of the packages right from "world scale" down to "city scale", would I be able to make a series of "linked" maps that would let me "zoom" from continental level down through countries, regions, cities and down to a street and its associated buildings, and the finally into my floor plans? In other words, I'd like to be able to click on a "hotspot" on a continent, zoom in, and continue the process down to floorplan level. Can this be done?
Thanks in advance for the advice. Before I lay out hundreds for packages, I wanted to be sure that the modules could interface to produce the desired effects.
Ron
Comments
(2) Fractal Mapper is a product made by ProFantasy's competitor, so I don't know about that, but with CC3 you can create hotspots to link your maps. And all addons integrate into CC3, so there is nothing preventing you from linking an overland map to a city map to a dungeon map and so on. You can make a whole hotlinked atlas this way, containing maps of all types. See the forgotten realms atlas or any of ProFantasy's source maps products to see how hyperlinking can be used.
However, if it has the planetary-to-street level "zoom" capability (via links), then it should be right for my purpose.
Now I just have to decide which package...
Thanks,
Ron
Anyway, Fractal Terrains is a seperate beast, and not an addon for CC3. So you won't be able to make FT planetary maps with hotspots pointing to CC3 maps. You can export an FT map to CC2 format however (Which is usable in CC3), and use that as your planetary map (with hotspots and all the other CC3 features). The exported CC2 map will be a flat map though, so you won't get the nice rotating globe FT has.