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Thanks!

It is with a heavy heart that I announce that long time friend and community member Jim Pierce (@JimP) is no longer among us. He lived to the age of 77 years (June 27th)

He died today, December 19th 2024, after a long period of illness that resulted from complications after his heart surgery back in April.

Jim was one of the real old-timers here in the community, participating in the Campaign Cartographer community long before this forum was a thing, back when we used the mailing list. He joined before me, so I don't know exactly how long he's been around, but it has been a while. The oldest message from him I've been able to find in the mailing list archives was from 2003, but the archives aren't complete and hard to search, so I am pretty sure he started participating before that.

Most of us will probably remember Jim as one of the most prolific mappers around. He always had a bunch of fantasy worlds in his head for which he made maps and websites, never running out of projects, as well as making hundreds of maps for the community atlas. He seemed to always have a head full of inspiration and fantastic ideas, and he cared a lot for all his worlds.

Unfortunately, his hosting accounts have expired, but I've archived his websites at https://jimp.monsen.cc/ where a lot of his work can be found. His contributions to the community atlas can be found at https://atlas.monsen.cc/Search?author=JimP . And lastly, his forum gallery can be found at https://forum.profantasy.com/profile/gallery/30/JimP.

Jim won't just be remembered for his maps though, as he was also always a kind and helpful fellow, always trying to help people with their problems. He also had other hobbies in addition to mapping. He enjoyed playing computer games, Everquest in particular, he enjoyed walking and camping, pearl work and poetry, so I am sure he made his mark on other communities in addition to ours.

Thanks to his sister, Lou Anna, for letting us know what happened. Our love and thoughts go out to you and the rest of your family in this difficult time.

Farewell Jim. We'll miss you. I guess you are on the bridge of the Starship Wanderer now, heading out and exploring the unknown.

The voting for the competition is now over. Thanks for voting for your favorites, and thanks to everyone who participated in the contest.

In total, 30 people voted for their favorite maps, and after tallying up the score, this is the result.

• 1st place ($75 voucher), with 121 points - @Ricko Hasche with Metzvel
• 2nd place ($50 voucher), with 49 points - @Shessar with Ober
• 3rd place ($25 voucher), with 44 points - @Lorelei with Naru Village

Not far behind, Quenten and Mathieu Gans share 4th place with 35 points.

And of course, part of this competition was also about reaching 1000 maps in the atlas, a great milestone, and one of the maps submitted has been randomly drawn to receive the honor of being the official 1000th map in the atlas.

And that honor (and a $50 voucher) goes to @Royal Scribe with Fon'Anor

Thanks again to everyone who contributed. I loved every single map entered into the competition, but we had to declare some winners. But even if you scored dead last, I noticed that every single mapper did end up with several votes, so every single one of you had at least one map that multiple people thought should be in the top three. If anyone wants to see the exact votes, they can go back to the voting topic and check them out.

I'll get the vouchers out in a couple of days, and also hopefully start integrating the maps into the atlas as well, but that will take a little while. I may also need to have you fix things if there are any problems, like invalid bitmaps and such.

This thread about Video Tutorials is one of the curated threads in the Resources category. This topic contains links to external sources, such as YouTube channels. Keep in mind that most of these external resources are not under control of ProFantasy Software, and we take no responsibility for the videos they post in their channel. Note that many channels also contain other videos not related to ProFantasy Software.

Only this top post is curated, users can use the comments below to provide links to additional channels and videos. Videos/Channels from the comments may or may not be included in this curated post, so browsing the comments below may find you nice videos too.

Use the Flag link to report out-of-date links in this topic, for example removed videos or channels that now post inappropriate content and should be removed from the list. Don't use it to suggest additions

Links

Blog Videos

Quickies

This thread about free symbols and artwork is one of the curated threads in the Resources category. Here you can find links to various sources for free artwork. The content of this thread will grow over time as more resources are posted in the forum. This thread contains two lists. The first are resources that are properly integrated with CC3+ and use the feature of the program. The second list contain places which contains great artwork you can use in CC3+, but which haven't been prepared for use with CC3+, which mean you need to import these resources yourself.

Since the resources in the first category comes prepared for CC3+, it does mean that it is easy to share map files with others that use these resources, since they can just download and install these just like any official CC3+ add-on. For the second category, this is unlikely to be possible, unless they takes steps to do thing the exact same way as you. You'll therefore need to take a bit more care when utilizing these. The points don't just apply to sharing with others, but also when you take your own maps to a new computer.

Only this top post is curated, users can use the comments below to add links themselves, but I suggest that you do this by starting your own discussion in the Cartographic Resources category, and link to that discussion from your comment here. That way each source have it's own thread where it can be discussed. I'll add the best links to the curated content, but the comments here will be a way to discover even more resources than I showcase.

Only free resources will be allowed here, but it is OK if the same site also sells resources, as long as the free offering can stand by itself and isn't just a small free sample for advertising the paid resources.

Please keep copyrights in mind. Even though the resources here are free to download, they are usually not free to redistribute or share with others.

As time goes by, some links may get outdated as sites die and gets replaced by other sites. If you find any such links here, please use the Flag link to notify me about this but please don't use Flag to ask me to add links.

Free Addons

These are basically add-ons to CC3+, large or small. The contents of these add-ons have been prepared for use with CC3+, and may include things like symbols, fills, symbol catalogs, templates, drawing tools and more.

Free Annuals

ProFantasy maintains a set of free annual issues available for download. These are completely free for any owner of CC3+ and contains lots of new styles, with new symbols fills, templates and styles.
These are a great preview of what the annuals are all about, and is a great resource on its own even if you don't intend to purchase the annuals.

You can download the free sampler. Note that even if it is called a sampler, the issues included are complete issues, they are just selected issues from the complete set.

Free Monthly Content

ProFantasy releases regular free content updates for CC3+, such as extra symbols to make the existing styles even better.
You can grab these by signing in to your registration page and go to the Downloads tab. From here click the download link next to the Campaign Cartographer 3 Plus entry in the list and grab the CC3+ Monthly Content download.

Free Artwork by Sue Daniel

Free symbols and other artwork produced by ProFantasy's own artist, Sue Daniel.

These assets are ready to use with CC3+, and comes with proper symbol catalogs and catalog button integration.



More information and downloads.

Vintyri Cartographic Collection

This is a huge collection of City-level symbols and resources. This collection integrates with City Designer 3, but can also be used without that product.

Artwork by the Vintyri Project. CC3+ conversion by Vintyri Project.

Check out the forum post for more information.

Download the collection, and make sure to visit the FAQ page if you have any issues, it explains all common issues.

The Vintyri Project does not monitor these forums. If you need official support you can email them at info@vintyri.org (please read the FAQ first), but you are of course welcome to post in these forums for support from other community members

CSUAC 2.0

This huge collection adds hundreds of new symbols. Most of these are floor-plan level symbols for fantasy maps, but it also contains symbols for other genres, as well as symbols for other types of maps.

Artwork by Dundjinni forum Users. CC3+ conversion by Vintyri Project.

Check out the forum post for more information.

Download the collection, and make sure to visit the FAQ page if you have any issues, it explains all common issues.

The Vintyri Project does not monitor these forums. If you need official support you can email them at info@vintyri.org (please read the FAQ first), but you are of course welcome to post in these forums for support from other community members

Dundjinni Archives

This is another huge collection of symbols in various flavors which expands the original CSUAC collection. Overland, fantasy floorplan and Modern/Sci-fi floorplan symbols are available.

Artwork by Dundjinni forum Users. CC3+ conversion by Vintyri Project.

Check out the forum post for more information.

Download the collection, and make sure to visit the FAQ page if you have any issues, it explains all common issues.

The Vintyri Project does not monitor these forums. If you need official support you can email them at info@vintyri.org (please read the FAQ first), but you are of course welcome to post in these forums for support from other community members

Bogie's Mapping Objects

This collection adds a huge number of floorplan level symbols in a consistent style from a single artist.

Artwork by Bogie. CC3+ conversion by Vintyri Project.

Check out the forum post for more information.

Download the collection, and make sure to visit the FAQ page if you have any issues, it explains all common issues.

The Vintyri Project does not monitor these forums. If you need official support you can email them at info@vintyri.org (please read the FAQ first), but you are of course welcome to post in these forums for support from other community members

Hârn Style for CC3+

This add-on by Roy Denton gives you the tools to make maps in the style of the Hârn maps from Columbia Games.

Check out the forum post for more information and download links.

Free Artwork

For a small challenge in December, I challenge you to make the design for a festive winter-themed post card in CC3+.

This is just a small friendly challenge, No prizes for this one, except for the eternal glory of a shiny medal forum badge to the winner.

The idea is to design a small map that would fit a post card, so a pretty small map. It needs to be winter or seasonal holiday-themed (For example Christmas, New Years or other observable holiday).

No restrictions on art resources used, you can use imported symbols and fills, but the map itself should be made in CC3+, and no post-processing in external image editors. Obviously, even if you can import external art-resources, making a complete card in an external editor and then importing that as a single image into CC3+ isn't acceptable.

The challenge is now over, please use the poll below to vote for your favorite. All the images are on this page, just scroll down to see them. The poll will close on January 24th.

This forum has the ability to embed CC3+ buttons in posts, which can be a great visual aid when explaining something to people. There are two versions, image with text (ex: :CC2MCHANGE:), and just the image (ex: |CC2CO|)

Adding these into a post is just a matter of taking the CC3+ button image identifier and putting it between two colons or two vertical bars, like this:

:PERIBOX: ⇒ :PERIBOX:

|GLOBE| ⇒ |GLOBE|

Note that this will just show as the code when you are editing the post, you won't see the actual button until you actually post your comment.

So, here's my entry. Full size version is in my gallery. And everyone else who want to participate and haven't handed in yet, remember that to participate, you do need to hand in your image in this thread before the deadline (end of February), don't forget.