Oh, I so wish I had a partner who was into the same things as me :)

That's a wonderful design. Thank you for sharing!

I think it's meant to be more of a personal challenge than an actual competition. That and just being part of a team working towards the same goal. I'm looking forward to seeing your bit of it :)

@Maidhc O Casain If you click the link above and download the file, then copy it into this folder to overwrite the existing file by the same name, then reopen CC3 - that will have the same effect as the installer.

@Symbols\Maps\Ancient Realms

I'm doing a lot of thinking about different things right now. First things first - you say you have to have everything planned out before you start a map. I'm the opposite way around. Very "Bob Ross". Things just happen in a map because they happen. I've put a cursed/sunken city in the middle of that humungous swamp area. It's just an idea. Maybe it helps - maybe it doesn't. You choose if it stays or goes away. Please let me know what to put there instead though if you want it gone.

The other thing I'm thinking about is scale. How big are you planning to export this map? This is the area I've been working on today between other jobs, extracted from a full export at 3000 px on the longest side. At this scale the structure symbols may be a bit small to do their proper job as symbols. 3000 px at 300 dpi is a print that is 10" in both directions when printed out. I think that's probably already too big for an A4 sheet.

I've been using a lot of artistic licence on the design. If that's not ok, please say.

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.

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We look forward to seeing you there :)

I thought of that, and then I thought... That means I would have to do a different banner body for each basic style I created, and then a different banner right end for each basic style I created, and then a different left end, and... by the time I finished this set could be about 500-1000 symbols strong. Then at the receiving end you would get a massive jigsaw puzzle where the pieces that you want might not necessarily be right next to each other in the catalogue due to it's sheer size - meaning that you would have to go hunting for the right ends for the body you have chosen. There is also the shadow problem - where you have to place each piece of your chosen banner exactly right on the spot so there are no horrible overlaps/underlaps of the shadow - which is essential to making them pop. (The shadow being built into the symbol).

Anyone else have any thoughts along these lines?

I think this shape is better suited to ribbons?

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Ralf did a Live Mapping session on this just last week here:

Hi Everyone :)

Tomorrow's Live Stream will cover the use of the newest issue of this year's Cartographer's Annual - a rather gorgeous looking new isometric dungeon style called Tagkrammer Isometric.

You are invited to come along and join in the fun! :)

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