Hi Kevin :)

The best way to start is to absorb the information in the User Manual and work through the practical mapping exercise it contains. That establishes the basic uses of the software and should be enough for you to grasp the 'how to' of most things.

Then there are a huge number of video tutorials you can access here:

Also remember that if you get stuck and don't want to spend days trying to find just exactly the right bit of the right video, you can ask a question right here on the forum.

Excellent!

Thank you. I will look forward to seeing your maps :)

Sometimes they are included in the main catalogue, and others they have their own catalogues. Try clicking the buttons on the lower of the two button bars above the window and see what you have.

It depends on the style.

So when we attach a palette to a map we should have the MERGE layer active?

I might come back to that leaky pipe idea when I've fleshed out the rest of the set, Julian.

I hadn't really thought of this as a steampunk style as such. We'll see...

The best way of dealing with grids (as I understand it because I don't use VTT), is to leave them out of the final export from CC3 but to add a 5ft square of a solid colour somewhere it won't be in the way and use it to scale the map to the VTT grid.

I think it must have been one of those moments when the eyes miss a letter. Julian was on about brass earlier.

Hi everyone! :D

This week, Ralf will be taking another look at mapping a town in a heavily wooded area, partly continuing from an earlier video on Symbol Set 6 - Cities of Schley.

Come along and join in the live chat on YouTube here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEDSYrFRu1I

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

I think those use the symbols in area, in which case they are affected by the default symbol size in the map.

Unfortunately, changing the default symbol scale won't change the existing forests you've drawn. It will only affect the new ones, so you may have to backtrack and redo the existing ones. Here I drew one jungle at the default symbol scale for this map on the left, then doubled the default symbol scale and drew the forest on the right.

You get to the default symbol scale setting by clicking the Drawing Properties button |CC2PRESETS|

Changing the default symbol scale will also change the default symbol scale for all the other symbols you place after changing it.

30 minute shout :)