Interesting. Mine shuts straight away, but I do have the same pdf opening issue as you, Wyvern.

I use Acrobat Reader, which at first sight appeared to fail to open. But when I tried to open Acrobat with an unrelated pdf it failed to open again. I checked the Task Manager and discovered the relevant number of Acrobat processes were actually running. There just weren't any Acrobat windows showing and no indication in the Start bar that it was open.

(to open Task Manager press CTRL+ALT+DEL and pick Task Manager from the list)

I ended the Acrobat tasks by right clicking each one and picking End Task, then Acrobat opened normally, though of course not from the installer since that had already closed at the end of it's process.

Opening Task Manager and ending all the Acrobat tasks will sort it out.

If you find it tricky trying to hit them because they are jumping up and down the list, hit the Name label at the top of the list to order them by name rather than anything else. They will stay still then.

Hi everyone! :D

Tomorrow, Ralf will be taking a look at the latest Cartographer's Annual issue: The Monkey Frog Overland style.

Come join us on YouTube for the live chat here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRFdjZcJU3w

Or see it right here on the forum if you prefer.

We would love to see you there :)

Remy wrote a blog about this and other things here:

Yes, that's very true.

@HelenAA - Joe's recommendation will also prevent the 'fly away' artefacts you can sometimes get when smooth nodes are more or less on top of one another, for example when converting a more extreme fractal line or polygon.

Hi alloowishus :)

CC3 is a vector-based app and and can't edit bitmaps, even though it produces them as an output end result.

There are a few mappers and artists here who also use bitmap editors like PS and Affinity or Krita, but if you are looking for somewhere with an abundance of artists who work with bitmap apps and who are also quite conveniently for you looking for work you might like to try asking the same question at the Cartographer's Guild.

This is the "Mapmaking Requests" subforum.

That's a good idea too.

Most CC3 dungeon styles are top view orthographic, so you would only ever see the wall and not any part of the face of it, so it's quite rare to get such symbols.

I think the hills would probably benefit from having less shadow.

The wall of links that Jim mentioned above is here:

https://forum.profantasy.com/discussion/10366/cartographers-annual-all-the-issues-linked-in-one-place

Thanks for letting me and others reading this thread know what happened.

I'm sure TS will be able to sort it out quite quickly. They're at Gen Con right now but the response is normally very fast.