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.

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

I hope you find what you want.

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.

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

CC3 draws the BACKGROUND sheet first, and then draws all the others on top of it one after another all the way down the list to the bottom. So if you have something on a sheet near the bottom of the list it's on top of most of the rest of the map in your drawing.

If you want all the entities on a particular sheet to be on top of everything else in the map you would need to move it to the bottom of the list. Take care to leave the border and screen sheets right at the very bottom, though.

The effects on each sheet affect only the entities on that particular sheet.

Usually a sheet with a name that starts with SYMBOLS... has symbols on it, and sheets that don't start that way have lines and polygons on them.

The scaling (or the default symbol size) is something that really should be set at the outset. But you've already done quite a lot of map. When you say it looks too small when you export it, are you exporting it always with this broad white border around it?

What export options are you using? These are controlled by the dialog that opens when you hit the Options button in the Save as... dialog.

Here is an example.

You can export the same map a lot larger by increasing either the Print Size or the Pixel Size. The settings above produce a much larger export than the default settings.

The Restrict image to map border checkbox should also cut out that large white border.

When in metric maps scale to the appropriate metric unit, which is km in overland and m in both city and dungeon

And in imperial maps scale to the appropriate imperial unit, which is miles in overland and feet in city and dungeon.

Hi Everyone! :D

Hope you are having a lovely Christmas and a really great New Year!

In this first Live Mapping session of 2024, Ralf will be starting the year by demonstrating the first issue of the Cartographer's Annual 2024 . Come along and join in the chat here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99nldttTOo8

Or if you prefer you can watch it here (though there's no live chat on the forum)

You're welcome, Kevin :)

If you ask a specific question there is usually someone around to help, so don't get stuck simply because there seems to bo so much to learn. Also, if you've used the app before it comes back a lot faster than you might think.

I think Herwin gradually moved on to photography more than fantasy art over the years, so while it would be nice to see these styles expanded I think it's probably not that likely to happen.