The reason these maps don't look right in CC3+ is that they use a font for symbols, and fonts back then was a completely different format than today's true type fonts.

They look fine in CC-DOS once you configure it to use the right font (It doesn't store the font reference in the map the way CC3+ does), but I assume it is the SYMBOL2.FNT which looks right.

Due to the use of the font, I am not sure if they can be made into CC3+ maps. There is a function for exploding text in CC-DOS but I don't really know how to use it, it seems to be expecting some input which I don't know what is.

I should be able to export them if I can just remember the image export command.

Use layers. They are a great way to hide/show features. You can for example make one layer for each room, and then either have an entity on that layer that covers up the room, so hide the layer to show the room, or place everything in that room on that layer, so when you show the layer, the room appears.

Here is another blog article from me that may be relevant

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Official Material

There are quite a lot of tutorials in the official documentation. Most of these are pdf files you can find in the Documentation directory inside your CC3+ data directory.

A significant portion of the CC3+ program manual are tutorials for how to do things in CC3+, these tutorials mostly use overland mapping as an example, but they do teach you a lot of useful things even if you will primarily be doing other kinds of maps, like dungeons.

Almost all the products/add-ons comes with an Essentials guide which gives you a brief quick start into that product with a short introductory tutorial.

The annuals are not just a great source of new styles and symbols, but each individual issue comes with a mapping guide for that style. Even if you don't plan to use that style, these guides often end up teaching you additional tips and tricks useful for your other mapping.

The Tome of Ultimate Mapping contains various tutorials for almost every one of ProFantasy's products. Just as with the user manual, tutorials may still be helpful even if they are for a different type of map since the basic way of doing things in CC3+ doesn't change between overland and dungeon and city maps.

The ProFantasy Blog contains a lot of useful articles, many of which take a tutorial format.

Tutorials

• Command of the Week archive & Monsen's Blog Article Index
• ProFantasy User Tutorial page
• Beveled Mountains
• Exporting CC3+ maps to MapTool/Roll 20
• Joachim's Macro Tutotorials
• Paper Curls
• Robin's Tutorials
• Shessar's Battlemap Tutorials
• Shessar's Overland Mountain Tutorial
• Wrapping pattern fills on Per3 walls
• Deepzoom images for web
• How to get PALEO DEMs into FT3(+)
• How to create decorative symbols by tracing

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