For the first point - was the original a CC3 map? If it wasn't then you won't find the style ready made somewhere in our stock of styles.

However, you have accurately surmised that it wouldn't be too difficult to make something similar. That would mean picking and mixing different elements of different styles, like for instance using the tree symbols from 'CC3 Mike Schley Inks Overland' and creating drawing tools for the rest of the aspects.

The only thing you might find a bit difficult to emulate is the dotty fill. The rest is more a matter of setting up the correct line styles and making drawing tools for them.

On the final point - are these maps copyright by the artist? That's not a problem if you create your own for personal use, but paying someone else to copy them may be a problem if you haven't got permission to reproduce them from the artist.

In this week's Live Mapping session Ralf will be doing something a little different. Please come along and join in with us as we watch Ralf make a Sci-fi Diorama using the Dioramas add-on.

If you wish to book a reminder click the link above hit the reminder button on the YouTube page.

We look forward to seeing you there :)

It might help if you had some kind of established workflow of some kind that has been successfully used by many other mappers.

Depending on what version of FT you are using you may might have access to the One Day Worldbuilder pdf. It comes free with FT3.5. Even if you are still using FT3 you could download and install FT3.5 just for the pdf. The download should be available under the same group of files on your Downloads tab when you log into your account on the main webpage.

It's a pretty long read (though actually its mostly pictures), but there is a supplemental notes pdf that covers creating your own world from a blank world, such as you are doing right now, and it was written for FT3.

Without transferring files (FT3 files are simply enormous), you might want to look at that for a basic workflow, or at least to get some ideas about how to solve some of your current workflow problems. You won't need to do all the last bits of the process which are concerned with transferring your world to CC3 for CC3 mapping projects.

This is just an idea. You don't have to do it that way if you don't want to.

As a plus, the One Day Worldbuilder will show you how to take your world from FT3 to a really handy piece of free software called 'Wilbur', where you can play with erosion, and then bring the file back to FT3 again.

EDIT: sorry - no Discord that I am aware of.

That's a pretty good first map :)

The next stage is to start playing with the sheet effects like the shadows to see what different results you can get. For example, those smaller shadows are a lot sharper than the taller ones on the trees. Maybe they could do with a little more blur on them?

1" = 5 feet = 1 grid square.

Julian is right. That is the way the software is normally gifted. As long as you don't register the code yourself first there's no problem. Just forward the email to the recipient.

Hello brandor :)

Yes, you can do all of that.

I recommend the Tome of Ultimate Mapping as a reference book that contains all the technical information you will need to do the job, and this forum as the place to ask for freindly and usually accurate help and advice.

Thank you, Remy :)

I didn't want to limit them to only ever being used in dense forest, so I didn't draw any trees in the symbols. To start with I put them on the same sheet as the tree symbols, but found they were being obliterated a bit too much by the trees after using Sort symbols in Map. There is no reason why they can't be more carefully placed (the trees that is) so that they aren't as obscured, but I lifted them above the canopy so that you could see what they really looked like.

They might do, but I haven't been checking it against Spectrum, and I know for certain that I have used a slightly lower angle to do this set where I sometimes find Spectrum a little too steep. It might work. You will have to try it.

Well done everyone, and congratulations to Autumn! :D

I forgot to as well, so don't feel bad.

Thank you Jim :D

And congratulations to all the other prize-winners too :D