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Escarpment help needed
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Expanding Endless Sea of Ice FR
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How Can I Draw Real-World Places in Campaign Cartographer?
It sounds like you need a hex style where the hexes are ready-built to be placed on a snapping grid, though that might mean the coastlines, rivers, and boundaries, etc. are more hex shaped than you would probably like them to be.
Perhaps something like Hex Overland? It's in the same Cartographer's Annual as the last example I showed you - the 2010 annual, or "Volume 4".
These are the symbols from that style.
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How Can I Draw Real-World Places in Campaign Cartographer?
There are a number of hex mapping styles that might suit, but do you need to limit yourself to actual hexes or will a hex grid do? CC3+ can add a numbered hex grid to any map, like this (the map below is one of the example maps from the style Modern Political in the 2010 Cartographer's Annual).
Original map (no grid)
The same map with a grid I just added.
As I said above, you could use any style you liked if a hex grid was an acceptable alternative to hex components, or even make your own style as Mike has done.
If you want to have a look at other styles available there's a page of links here.
As for the actual drawing of the map - the coastline etc, you can import image files of these types into CC3+ and trace the shapes as you wish.
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Lost fills
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Thinning out Styles
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Realms Reimagined Rivers
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Live Mapping: Cosmographer System Map *** NEW second attempt ***
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Live Mapping: Cosmographer System Map *** NEW second attempt ***
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Live Mapping: Cosmographer System Map *** NEW second attempt ***



