Hi McCrakan :)

There is a favoured basic order of doing things which can be modified to suit individual preferences. It might be a good idea to work through the example in the CC3+ manual (written by Remy Monsen) to get a practical feel of everything, but basically its:

• Land
• Mountains
• Rivers
• Terrain textures and Forests
• Structures
• Ocean details

Everything has it's own designated sheet, so even if rivers are normally drawn before the terrain textures are laid down the textures will end up underneath the rivers.

There are drawing tools for placing whole forests available in most styles which fall into 2 categories. There's the super dense forest fills and the more scattered result of using a drawing tool based on a Symbols in Area macro. These are easy to tell apart from the thumbnail image in the drawing tool list. There are also drawing tools available for placing mountain chains, though these are mostly in the Mike Schley Overland style and may even be only available in an annual issue (I can't remember now off the top of my head). Speaking of Annuals they are also a great way to learn since every issue of an annual that is a new mapping style (not all issues are new mapping styles) comes with it's own mapping guide. Here is a wall of links to the individual annual issues. The annuals are sold in bundles of years, so if you want one in particular you need that year's annual.

As for suggestions and solutions for issues you might find along the way, that is what the forum and the Facebook Group are for. There are lots of people (most of the real experts are here on the forum) who enjoy helping to solve these things.

Have fun! :)

Yes, thanks.

There may be a less 'aeroplane' way of doing the seating if there is no forward direction. I remember being on a hydrofoil across the channel to France a long time ago when such things were really new. The seating took me a bit by surprise, as it was arranged in little 'cups' with a small table for you to put your refreshments on, so you could sit together as if you were in a cafe. It wasn't very spacious, but it was a whole lot more friendly than rows. It was quite impossible to see anything but sky through the windows anyway, so forward wasn't really all that interesting to look at. But maybe your vessel is more military than that, and I think the military tend to stick with endless rows of things.

Looks good to me :)

I am curious about which way this is moving. I notice that the economy seating is all facing in one direction a bit like a passenger jet. Does that mean they are facing the direction of movement?

Hi Scott! :D

You just need to save it over the top of the existing file of the same name in: C:\ProgramData\Profantasy\CC3Plus\Symbols\Dungeons\Annual Jon Roberts