That looks complicated.

It has it's limitations since you can't cut a slot out of it, but you're welcome :)

That isn't the template file. It's the example map for the Traveller System Bitmap style.

The template is blank and ready for you to make your own map.

If you want to get started with Cosmographer and what you want isn't in the User Manual there are a couple of recorded live mapping sessions here that might help - even though none of them cover this specific style.

LOL!

Well, lets start with the snow colour. I have this problem in that it can be that blue... or green... or pink... or yellow...

It depends on the lighting, the surface texture, the time of day, how clear the sky is... and it's a bit like trying to find one universal human skin colour.

I've decided that looking at the rest of the colour scheme I seem to have set up some kind of early evening sunny day, so maybe it should be creamy grey instead of blue grey. I'll think about it.

Agreed - it definitely needs roughing up a bit.

As Wyvern has already pointed out, unless you need to do some serious post processing (adding stuff in GIMP that you can't do anywhere near as easily in CC3, like detailed variable hill shading, or hand drawn highlights/shadows for individual focal points), its just a case of exporting it directly from CC3 as a JPEG with a reasonable amount of antialiasing. The default setting of 66% is a bit over the top in my opinion. I usually use about 20%

If you are intending to do a lot of post processing, then export as a PNG about 2 x the desired end result, and work on it at that scale. Once you are finished with the post processing in GIMP, save the GIMP file (in case you change your mind about any of the things you touched up), export the finished map to a PNG, then reopen the PNG and scale it down to the desired size.

It works on whatever symbol catalogue you have open at the moment you use the command. So the order you do all the catalogues is up to you. Doing them all would take days, or even weeks.

This won't index anything at all, but show little thumbnails of the symbols in exactly the order they appear in the catalogue. The best thing is to try it for the one you have open right now and judge whether or not it would be useful to you.

To be clear - you have to open the actual catalogue files, and not just do it from any old map. If you do it from a map it will just give you the symbols in that map.

Thank you :)

There's a regular version of that one as well.

The cave is part of the mountain, but don't worry - there will be more than one in the end ;)

I created Forest Trail and Winter Trail, but not Forlorn Cottage. I've always avoided creating anything in a style that is too much 'like' someone else's style - especialy if they are living artists like Mike. The only time I've deliberately copied a style was the Ferraris Style, which was directly based on the Ferraris Map. That one is a couple of hundred years old, so the cartographers and artists who worked on it are definietly dead by now.