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How to make the selection box bigger?
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Cc3+ text on non cc3+ map versus photoshop?
You ask about text, but you also talk about things like political borders and stuff, so it seems like that should be taken into consideration.
Now, to start, I personally hate PhotoShop, I find it cumbersome, difficult and intuitive to use, and on top of that, expensive. But, there are other image editors out there so I'll not jump to the conclusion of using CC3+ just because I don't like the other option.
But, you obviously isn't skilled in PS yourself, given that you don't know the difficulty of working with text, which more or less brings me to a conclusion right away, use what you know. If you know how to do things in CC3+ there isn't really a good reason to use an image editor, unless you want to use it more as a training exercise to learn that software rather than use what would be most appropriate for you.
Considering that both options do allow a layered approach, both can be used for the task, but if you import the map to scale in CC3+ before drawing on top of it, you can also use various tools to do things like measuring length and area, including measuring length along a curved line, which I personally find extremely nice when working with maps, so I would probably pick CC3+ for that option alone.
The only reason where I feel the image editor may be a bit stronger is making the things you draw on top of the scanned image appear better "integrated" into the image. But this is something that takes skill with the image editor, it doesn't come for free, and you can get a long way in the same direction by using sheet effects.
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Would like advice on a new computer to optimize running CC3+
Unless you need to spend a lot of that on a graphics card (which won't do anything for CC3+, but if you plan to use the computer for gaming, you may want one), the 13th generation Intel i5's are pretty good, both in actual performance, and value for money. If you can get an i5-13600K, I would go for it.
Recommend getting 16GB of RAM. CC3+ itself can't use more than 4, but your OS and other programs want their chunk of it, so 16 allows CC3+ to get it's fill. Probably best to go with DDR5 these days for the future, but if the budget constrains you, you are better off going for DDR4 ram instead of scaling back the CPU.
I also recommend having a NVMe system drive, and make sure it is big enough to install CC3+ on it. Personally, I recommend 512GB+. CC3+ do use RAM caching, so it won't be terrible on a slower drive, but getting the extra speed is good.
For the rest of the components, get what you can. You don't need a huge PSU (unless you are also getting a powerful graphics card)
Extra storage, more ram is always good.
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FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions and their solutions
- I can't select entities properly.
🎬️ Videos: Fixing Selection
At times you may find that selections doesn't work properly. For example a command that expects you to select something (such as the erase command) just seem to terminate without allowing you to selecting things at all, or it might appear to select things automatically.
This is caused by the fact that CC3+ has different selection methods for different purposes, and sometimes the wrong one may be enabled (often caused by a macro that didn't complete properly).
To fix it, select Options from the Tools menu, then hit the Select method button and make sure that the selection method is set to "dialog or Popup". Make sure to just hit OK to exit out of the dialogs, and your selections should work as before.
If you don't mind using the CC3+ command line, this can also be fixed by just typing SELBYD followed by enter.
?️ Further Reading: Selections
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FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions and their solutions
- My symbols disappear when I scroll/zoom
🎬️ Videos: Short tutorial +++ Intro video about sheets
This happens because of sheet order. For performance reasons, when you place a symbol (or other entity), it is always displayed on top of everything else, until you do something that redraws the screen, such as scrolling, zooming or hitting the :CC2REDRAW: button, as this causes the view to be redrawn, and entities such as symbols will be drawn in their actual position in the drawing order
If your symbol disappeared when you did that, it is an indication that it was placed on a sheet below something else that covers it up. Most symbols and tools choose their own sheet, but if you were using one that didn't do that, it might be that your active sheet is low in the order, or perhaps you have another entity late in the drawing order that covers up things it shouldn't.
You can check which sheet an entity is on by using the List command in the Info menu, or you can try to temporarily hide some of the sheets in the list. There are multiple ways to move an entity to a different sheet, but :CC2MCHANGE: is a good way.
Remember that when CC3+ draws entities on screen, it starts with the top sheet in the list and draws that to the screen, then it goes to the next one, and draws the content of that sheet on top of what's already been drawn and so on. This means that entities on sheets later (further down) in the sheet list will appear on top of things earlier (further up) in the list, and the entities on the very bottom sheet will appear on top of everything else.
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Barnacton Keep (WIP journal)
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Export effect difference
Looks like your effect is set up to "Percent of View Width" instead of map units or percent of drawing extents width. Go in and edit the effect in question, and change this section. Do note that you may need to tweak the size of the effect after doing this, as you basically change the baseline for the sizing.
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Finding specific symbols for my projects
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Live Mapping - Sewer Encounters
You all like sewers right? That's where we're headed on Thursday, so mark the time in your calendars. I'll be handing out XP penalties for anyone who is late or absent.
As usual, it starts 18:00 CET, to figure the time in your local time zone either just start the video below and YouTube should tell you, or look over at the left forum sidebar, it should provide the time in your timezone provided you are a logged in user.
Remember that while you can of course just watch the video in the embedded video player here at the forum, a far better option is to hit the video title in the top left of the video or the large YouTube logo in the bottom right to be taken to the YouTube page where you'll also find the chat where you can interact with us during the stream.
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WIP: Local Map Ice Caves Exterior
I'm planning to use Ryecroft Town /and/ Spectrum Overland. So, of course, all scales are off.
Note that there isn't a single default scale for symbol that will work for both these sets of symbols, as these are not scaled in relation to each other. When mixing two different types of maps like this, you'll basically have to do a little work and experiment a bit with what scale works for the city symbols and for the overland symbols individually, and make a note of these two scales (hint: store it in a map note so it follows the map).