Hi everybody!

They say that you should start small and simple when designing maps... I ignored that advice and got rather carried away.

After heaps of help from the community, I've finished my first map in CC3! It's a cave network, with various remnants of monsters, smugglers and cultists (there are some guns/modern relics knocking about, so it works best as a 20th Century map).

Thanks for all the help, and it's been fun learning CC3/DD3!

I'll put a higher-res version as an attachment (if it works).

Hey, thanks for all the help everybody.

In the end I exported it in ~7000 pixel squares, then patched it together in an image editor.

Here's the compressed version.

Cheers!

Here's the nice, small jpg!

Hey everybody,

Thanks for all of the suggestions.

I upped the MPPP to 4million and reduced the map size very slightly (it's still 9,000 x 7,128) pixels.

I'm going to try it again at a huuuuge size with the increased MPPP overnight just to see what happens, and if it fails again I'll do it in four parts.

@JimP Before I left it running last night I closed all other applications, but I don't know how to give it full access to memory and CPU.

It is a monster of a map though... Takes about 20 seconds every time I turn the effects on, or every time I pan with effects on.

I brought this on myself!

Of course, now it's so big I can't easily share it.

There's a Google Drive link here, and I'll try to make a low-res version again so I can show you. (Ironic!)

There are a still a couple of strange artefacts I need to clear up, but it's looking pretty much correct. (Though I forgot to turn the light symbols off... oops!)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/15dFwNC6--aasPawH72P9xHy7vg735UP_/view?usp=share_link

Thanks so so much for walking me through this!

Hi, thanks for such a comprehensive answer! I can try all those. Stitching it together in a BMP editor should be very easy for me (I do that kind of thing all the time) so I'll give that a shot.

What does the Maximum Pixels Per Pass option do?

And how long is a 'normal-long' time for an export?

(Sorry for all the questions - this is the last hurdle now!)

Thanks so much for all the help throughout this first map!