The tools are all set up with a mirror line of 0 degrees as default which results in the ship being mirrored along the X-axis

If you wish to draw a ship withe the nose pointing up, right click :COSHULL:, look for the tool to use, note the name mentally, then hit the Advanced button and select the tool you wanted in the list to the left.

Now, hit the Options button, and set the mirror line angle to 90 degrees. (Obviosuly, this is only possible for tools that have Mirrored Polygon as the draw method)

Hit OK, and then Hit OK again to start drawing. Say no when it asks you to save your changes, otherwise the tool will be permanently modified.

Then just draw your hull.

It's the snap setting. Snap and Cursor snap is on, but for some reason, no grid is selected. This basically causes everything to snap to 0,0 and nowhere else.

Right click the snap button in the lower right, and click on one of the existing snap grids in the list (or create a new one)

The change doesn't change anything in the actual map, just changes some parameters for how CC3+ does the rendering of it.

The setting is persistent in CC3+ until you close and reopen the program, so it will affect any maps you open in that instance of CC3+.

To always have it load for a particular map, you can put DELAYDRAWSYM 0 into the OnOpenMacro of the map file. (Obviously, this will keep it active for the lifetime of the instance and not just for that map)

CC3+ is mostly single-core, so it does benefit from higher clock speeds rather than many cores. Normally, I would recommend an Intel over that Ryzen 3600, but of course, with the new 5000 series just released and your motherboard being able to handle it, going that route is probably beneficial in the long run although the current Intel motherboards should be compatible with the next intel generation coming next year, which may (or may not) change things here.

I can't really comment anything about the release plans for CC4, other than it is not something that is right around the corner.

Decided to start posting a video tutorial series intended for beginners. The first few videos are now up and can be found in my playlist here: