🎬️ Videos: Drawing tools for new fills +++ (also watch these for more context: Short video about fills +++ Longer video about fill styles)

Drawing Tools in CC3+ are more than just a list of fills. If you look at the full list in any given map (:CC2DRAWTOOLS:) you'll se that they have different shapes, some have outlines of different widths, some are lines, some are filled entities and so on. Drawing Tools are all manually crafted tools for common features of the current map style, they're not automatically created from the fills in the map.

Instead, to find fills you have imported, click the FS: (Fill Style) indicator in the top right, and go to the Bitmap Files tab. The dropdown here lists all the fill styles in the current map. From here, you can pick the one to use, and then use the basic tools in the right hand toolbar to draw entities using this fill. Keep in mind that when using these basic tools, they don't set anything automatically like the drawing tools do, you manually have to set all the correct properties first by clicking the elements on the status bar, such as fill, line width, sheet and layer.

You can also make new drawing tools yourself utilizing your new fills. In the drawing tools window, hit the Advanced button to start editing. From here, pick one of the tools you'd like to use as a starting point, then hit the New button to make a clone of the selected tool. Now, make sure your copy is the selected one, and yhen access the properties to set it up to use one of your new fills

🎬️ Videos: Short and to the point +++ Longer, with more explanations about fill styles

In a standard CC3+ installation, you will have a lot of fill styles (textures), even more if you have any add-ons. However, these fills have different intended use, for example, the futuristic styles from Cosmographer aren't intended to use in fantasy dungeon maps. CC3+ handles fills by letting each template define which fills are to be used for a particular style, and your map gets the same setting when you make a new map from that template.

There is nothing wrong with using fills belonging to other styles in your map, but the current system is designed to show you the ones that are designed to visually fit the style of your current map. If CC3+ should show you every fill you had installed, you would be faced with a huge list of fills, most of which wouldn't fit your current map style, and it would be hard actually finding appropriate ones.

One of the more common situations you would experience this fact that your map just use a limited set of the fills at any given time is if you try to change to a different style of Drawing Tools. For example, if you started your map in the DD3 dungeon style, but decided that you really liked the nice fill of the cliff tool of the Dungeon SS2A style, switching to that style of drawing tools, you would see that the drawing tools appeared to have the wrong fill compared to what they would have if you started a new SS2 style map in the first place. This happens because the drawing tools look for the fill style definition in the map, and they don't find it because it isn't defined in your current map.

The easiest way to fix this is to simply pick Insert File from the Draw menu, and pick a map that has the fill style definitions you need. If you don't have such a map ready, simply make a new blank map in the desired style first. For example, if you want the fills from the SS2 Dungeon A style into your map, start by making a blank map in that style and save it somewhere, then go back to your actual map, use Draw -> Insert File and pick this map in the dialog. Now, once you have picked the map and hit OK, the outline will be on your cursor, ready to be placed in your map. However, instead of clicking and placing it, just hit the Esc key to end the command. The fill definitions have already been copied over just by getting this far. You can also delete the temporary map you made, you don't need to keep it around

There are other ways to import fills too, for example, you can use Import bitmap fill styles from the tool menu to import a folder full of image files as fills, or you can create new fill style definitions one by one from the fill styles dialog you find by clicking the FS: on the status bar in the top right corner of the CC3+ interface. But if you are doing this to make drawing tools from other styles work in your map, you should use the Insert File option from above to get the naming of the fills correct.

Questions

• I know I have lots of fills (textures) installed, but they aren't available in my map.
• My drawing tools are missing their textures (or show incorrect textures)
• I've imported new fills into my map, but they don't show up in the drawing tools window.
• I can't select entities properly
• My symbols disappear when I scroll/zoom
• My symbols/tools draw on the wrong sheet
• Autosave prompts are annoying
• Exporting takes a very long time
• Some effects (like shadows or lights) stop short on my exported image
• I get a Source file not found error message when installing the latest update

This thread contain some of the more common issues users of Campaign Cartographer experience. This is a good list to check if you have an issue, and it is a good place to point people asking questions in the forum if their solution is found here.

You'll also find another FAQ over at the main ProFantasy page which covers some types of questions not addressed here.

If you point people to this thread, I recommend pointing them directly to the right question. You can get the URL directly to any comment by right-clicking the post date (below the poster's name) and select 'Copy Link Location' (wording varies a bit between browsers, but will be something similar) to copy the URL to your clipboard for pasting into another post.

Four new maps in the atlas from the contest. This time it is the excellent contribution from @Arcwynd.