Hi Folks,

WIP of the inn the PCs are staying at while in Menni,. If I don't get it done by Wednesday night, I'll just use the one out of the book (hand drawn B&W), Sea Kings of the Purple Towns.

Remaining furniture, internal walls and wall features to be added.

Crossover works well enough, watch out though. I bought Crossover19 when my iMac was running OS Catalina, when I upgraded to Big Sur, Crossover needed to be upgraded - at additional cost, of course. I wasn't about to spend another $400+ dollars for the lifetime upgrades when CC3+ is the only Windows software I use. I ended up installing in a Bootcamp partition running an un-activated install of Windows 10 and it seems to work mostly OK, the odd crash here and there but nothing major.

I'm seriously considering refurbing my old Mac, it's a 2007 model, 32-bit with a 75gb SDD and 5gb RAM (I bought a new one in 2020, not the M1, the standard 27" Intel version that I'm currently using) as a dedicated Windows machine specifically for CC3+. I don't think the 64 bit OS like Bootcamp...the new machines performance is decidedly lackluster, whether it's due to Bootcamp or other stuff I've no idea... I've got to clean up some stuff and see if that improves things.

Hi,

Here is a photo of a map I drew in an A5 notepad while waiting my turns during a Pathfinder game followed by a WIP of the CC3+ version. I've made some changes to the CC3+ version.

Hi ya Folks,

Here's an update on the spiral stairs. Rather than messing about having double sheets to avoid pixel acne I've decided to just use a fill and draw polygons for the shadows and lines for the edges. Needs a bit of refinement particularly in regards to shadow widths and whatnot but it's looking ok. This is the up version.

Ok. I tried another fill over those lines and it works but I wasn't happy with it, so I've left them for the moment.

I'm happier with the fields but still not 100% satisfied.

I played around with bringing in the forest fill from the Jon Roberts overland style and no matter how I scaled it, it looked rubbish. Then I played around with Symbols in Area (Exclude) and I must have had the symbol size too small, so I'll try that again with larger symbols.

In a nutshell, all I accomplished in about 2.5 hours was the fields and adding the road and changing the main road into the town and mine. I suppose for 2 hours of that I was pretending to be Alexander Bell and figuring out what won't work... Here's where I'm at at the moment.

@Monsen As far as I'm aware the Bootcamp assistant does that as part of the set up process, so I think the answer to that is yes.

Also, this is just about finished. I deleted my submission post (I know you're not accepting submissions Remy but this is nearly done) as I noticed there is still the cliff top showing through where it shouldn't on middle cliff level.

Another small update and a question.

Firstly, the update. I added a glow effect to both the WALLS and FLOORS sheets for that little extra punch and depth. Obviously, can't do proper shadows because that won't work when I rotate the tiles. I also used the door symbol to cut the walls so I can add wall and secret doors and whatever where I need them, or leave them open as a passage - it's a compromise...

Secondly, the question. Each of these tiles are their own FCW file. How do I convert them into a symbol catalogue to build the map in CC3+?

Thanks for the reply @Lorelei.

I knew I'd be pushing you-know-what uphill regarding free symbols and fully expected that I would either a) have to draw the traps and other such symbols myself or b) commission someone to draw them for me. It was more of a forlorn hope really, a bit like winning the lottery, as I'm not that artistic. I'll have a crack at making them myself and if I'm not happy with the result, post a request on Fiver...

My little project is something of a trial and for Mythras, an off-shoot of Runequest, so sales volume is not going to be anywhere near what it would be for say D&D or Pathfinder, hence why I'm happy to spend my time but not my $$$... Depending on sales and feedback from this first one, things may change.

Re the Zoo map, I was always going to use DD3 due to scale, essentially it's just a big battle map but was after suggestions for the style to start with. Here is the map of the actual zoo. As it's for a 4 year old I want to it to be relatively simple and similar to this... I may even download photos of the animals and make them into 'tokens'...

Here's the map of Nan & Pop's Zoo.

Certainly not one of my better efforts but I'm sure my 4 year old grandson won't mind. I kind of ran out of time and rushed it a bit this evening to get it done. I want to give it to him over the weekend but don't have a colour printer at home.

Here is an update. I think this simpler map, will be better for a 4 year old...