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Gobi Desert Map
Not quite sure about the scale of the map you're emulating, but as you mentioned "tents", I think you're probably right to go with a Dungeon-scale map.
As for the drawing style, that really depends whether you want something a little abstract, but clear - like the drawing you've shown - or something more nearly photo-realistic, or something between the two. Plus what you think looks best among those options, of course!
Another element of this may be exactly how the map will be used, as that could determine how clear you need the various elements to appear - if the slopes are important for movement, for instance, you may need to use variant shading/colouring to make clear for players where there are difficult terrain areas, say (loose sand, hard rock, etc., and perhaps not just on the slopes from the dot-shading in the valley near some of the presumed tents).
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New user from the Netherlands, nice to meet you all!
Welcome on-board!
The advice from everyone above is very sensible, and should help you get started.
The main problems I found early on with the software related chiefly to being more familiar with how desk-top publishing and graphics manipulation software works, whereas CC3+ is genuine CAD software, which works in a very different way. Equally though, it's also far more powerful and - once you get into its apparent quirks - far more useful.
I found the Joe Sweeney videos the most helpful, as I started with CC3, but the more recent videos (which didn't then exist) for CC3+ by Ralf (the live mapping streams) and Remy are just as useful.
Best advice is once you're familiar with the basics, through video tutorials and/or the Manual, just make some maps of your own, and learn from that - including making mistakes, and working out (or asking here!) how to correct them. Good luck!
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Show me your science fiction maps!
Not sci-fi, since they were all done for the Nibirum Community Atlas, which is all fantasy mapping, but they were done in the general style of planetary-system mapping, so may still be of interest. However, I did a series of maps for said Atlas back in 2018 - Forum thread here, Nibirum Solar System start page here, with a sample map to give you an idea, just for the inner planets:
All these maps are also in my Forum Gallery here.
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Live Mapping: Parchment City (Second Try)
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City of Nyxotos for the Community Atlas
Sorry, Frosty, I don't.
However, a quick check online shows there are at least two CC3+ maps of the Isle out there, both from 2022. One is by Jason Hibdon, on the Atlas of Mystara website, the other is on the Talaraska blog. In neither case is there an FCW file provided, but it couldn't hurt to contact the people involved and ask nicely!
I'm not sure if either may be on this Forum, or perhaps the Cartographer's Guild, as well.



