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  • Understanding Fog of War Effects

    You're welcome :)

    Night effects cover the entire area, so they reappear beyond the screen. However, when you save your map as a bitmap export (Save as... in the File menu) you will only be rendering the area of your drawing, so you won't see any of that.

    ArkangelJimP
  • Understanding Fog of War Effects

    Oh Remy's video is just as good, but you would have found my timestamp a bit confusing ;)

    ArkangelJimP
  • Sinister Sewers - Style Development Thread (CA207)

    Well actually that was an accident, but there's no reason why you can't use it that way. I was testing it to see if I could break it just after I finished setting it up.

    Oh so the cubes are your fault are they? LOL!

    That do-it-yourself approach to the contents is an idea. I might leave one of them empty for that purpose.

    Royal ScribeJimP
  • Sinister Sewers - Style Development Thread (CA207)

    Gelatinous cubes anyone?

    What would you like to see in them?


    QuentenRicko
  • How to make maps like Aliens: Dark Descent

    Ralf did an annual style that might suit with a little modification in the 2020 Cartographer's Annual, or you could work it out yourself using sheet effects and simple coloured polygons.

    roflo1
  • Scaling map for guide

    Yes, it's a grid coordinate so you do need both zeros.

    There's no actual canvas in CC3. You can export the very same map as an image that is 2000 x 2000 px, or 8000 x 8000 pixels. It's the same map, just exported at different sizes, or different resolutions as you prefer. The reason for taking care to draw everything 'to scale' within CC3 is so that all the sheet effects and drawing tools give you accurate and predictable outcomes as they have been set up in the template, and so that you can then measure distances and areas in your map within CC3 using the tools in the Info menu.

    TakoTsubo
  • [WIP] Recreating Thedas

    Yeah :)

    Mike Schley is the largest overland style we have. It's also been further enlarged with many of the free additional symbol sets published monthly and available to download on your registration page.

    It's much, much larger than Spectrum Overland, so if you started with Mike Schley because you like it, it might be worth going back to Mike Schley before you really get dug in to the mapping, as it offers more flexibility.

    JimPFey
  • Is there a way to search all Symbols across catalogs?

    Someone else had to explain it to me a couple of years ago, so don't worry.

    I hope you find what you want.

    JimPFey
  • Scaling map for guide

    If you reduce the size of the whole city map then it won't be at the correct scale. Keep it at the correct size (1 map unit = 1m), but don't draw individual buildings. Draw whole blocks and leave out the details like back streets and paths.

    Once that map is finished, start again with 4 or more districts of the city, mapping each of those smaller areas in greater detail so that these smaller maps cover the whole city in a jigsaw of smaller maps.

    JimP
  • [WIP] Recreating Thedas

    You need to draw the sea first, not the land.

    There is a pdf Mapping Guide in the issue's folder here:

    C:\ProgramData\Profantasy\CC3Plus\Annual\Issue 173 - Darklands

    JimP