Do you have Perspectives 3 installed? It is required for those features.

Well, I guess the climate fits the bill for the Kalmar Union....

It really only matters if you wish to distribute your XP. The reason for sticking with the same version as CC3+ itself uses is that users are guaranteed to have the correct libraries installed. I do believe that Joe switched over to VS 2019 for newer builds anyway, and later versions of the installable runtimes actually provide support for all newer versions, making it matter even less, so you should be able to just use the 2022 toolset without issues.

That said, to install the additional toolsets, all you have to do is to go back into the visual studio installer and modifying your installation, and under the C++ desktop development you can install the MSVC 1.42 for 2019 support, and MSVC 1.41 for 2017 support. You can see these options in my screenshot above, in the list to the far right of the dialog...

I should update that article with 2022 now being the current version. There are no real differences, but it can be annoying when the steps in the article doesn't match up 100% with the actual product. Everything when it comes to the actual code in the tutorials will be 100% identical though, it's just some minor changes to the setup.

Filters doesn't work with custom templates unfortunately, but it should be easy to locate just by typing cc3 in the search box.

I'll mention that when I rewrite the tutorial. That first part was written before I made the template at all, so the mentions of it was just edited in later.

I've edited the first tutorial now, updated it for VS 2022 and tested it on both Windows 10 and 11, so everything should be correct there.

As for the part 2 project, seems like there was an error there where the project no longer contained the references to the XP toolkit, and was otherwise reverted to default values, which is why the includes didn't work. The project needed to be changed to use an installed SDK, and the XP references put back in. I've uploaded a fixed version now.

I've also made a minor change to my CC3+ XP template, now it should default to the latest installed SDK instead of targeting a specific version. You can download the new one using the same link as before.

I don't think you actually need Perspectives to take advantage of the issue itself, since it comes with proper symbols for both walls and floors. But you need it to use the 3D projection command, and it also gives the advantage that you can draw additional isometric shapes manually.

Yea, messing up your map is kind of easy when you are given direct access to the raw data. Part of the fun :)

Looks nice, but I am not sold on the fields here. They look a bit out of place.

Not sure exactly how his setup is, but it looks like he's just added two filled polygons to a sheet that is on top of everything else, and then added text and decorative symbols on top of that again. Probably 3 or 4 custom sheets. (background, text, symbols, border)

Roads look much better now, really makes a huge difference when you are not seeing part of the road inside the marker circle, but the two medium cities between the red lables in the middle of the map still looks like they could need the same treatment as the rest.

You've got a spelling error, a semicolon has snuck it's way into the Wizard-realm.

The red dotted line actually goes on top of the floating island symbol at A. This looks slightly weird.

Text is much easier to read now, but I still find 'C' and to a certain degree 'A' a bit hard yet. They could do with a more powerful glow.