While creating an example pdf for the February Annual issue, I accidentally printed it in grayscale. I thought the result has quite a charm of its own:
The February issue of the Annual 2012 elaborates on a style introduced in Cosmographer 3: The satellite view overland map. This large-scale, straight overhead style evokes the view a satellite might have on the landscape below. Seamlessly-tiling textures are smoothed together through sheet effects to create the image of an unbroken, natural landscape.
The source for the textures is taken from public domain images made available by NASA through their Visible Earth website. The texture are carefully crafted from these originals and made into CC3 bitmap fill styles.
While it served as an inspiration, Cosmographer 3 is not required to make full use of this style. See the Annual 2012 site for more information on this style.
Check out this large-scale (A2) example map created in the Annual Overland Satellite style.
The February issue is available for subscribers now!
Every year, we bundle up our annual subscription and offer it as a singleeasy install, and it’s available now.
I scoured the readme files and found that our latest collection include:
- 10 map-making styles with 486 drawing tools.
- 108 fill styles and textures
- 28 templates
- 45 maps
- 2238 symbols in 41 catalogs
- 55 pages of map-making guides
- 18 effect settings, new commands, a font Fractal Terrains 3 textures and a converter
The style pack Overland Perspectives gives you a beautiful vector drawing style set up to create perspective landscape maps.
The symbol pack Dungeons contains more than 1500 new high-detail bitmap symbols for your dungeon and outdoor floorplans.
The style pack Jonathan Roberts Overland contains a complete new overland style created by fantasy cartographer Jonathan Roberts.
The style pack 1930s Travel Guide contains a new floorplan drawing style for maps reminiscent of 1930s travel guides.
The style pack Modern Road and Street Maps contains a new drawing style for modern road atlas style maps.
The style pack Jon Roberts’ Dungeons contains a new drawing style for dungeon floorplans and battlemaps.
The map pack Mine Diorama contains a new complete, customizable diorama set.
The style pack Vertical Dungeon Geomorphs contains ready-to-use geomorph tiles and the style to create more of your own.
The style pack Miltary Operations contains a new style for modern and near-future operational maps.
The style pack Treasure Maps contains a new style for local-area player handouts and treasure maps .
The map pack Moe’s Dive contains two high-detail maps and a composite CD3/DD3 template.
The style pack 1930s Street Maps contains a new drawing style for pulp and horror games set in the 1930s.
The tool pack Climate Textures contains a set of seamlessly tiling bitmap textures for use in FT3 and CC3.
We’ve started into 2012 with our new Annual subscription and a combined map pack for creating dungeons on the table. “Combined” because it contains the tools for doing it either as a “flat” 2d version or – if you are into building your own paper models – as a 3D model.
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You can now subscribe to the Cartographer’s Annual 2012 from the Profantasy web store. Check out previews for the first three issue on the Annual 2012 page.
Preview of the March Issue: Jon Roberts’ Cities
The final Annual issue for 2011 is here: A combined texture pack for Fractal Terrains 3 and Campaign Cartographer 3. Give your FT world a new look with the textured climate shader or draw climate maps of your regions in CC3.
Stay tuned for the Cartographer’s Annual 2012!
The December issue of the Annual 2011 is now available. It contains a companion style to April’s “1930s Floorplans”, reproducing the city maps of 1930s Baedeker travel guides. These make perfect handouts for period horror or pulp games.
Despite this being the December issue, the 2011 Annual is not quite done yet. As we released the June issue as a free download, we’ll be adding one more issue later this month.
Recently we added some new entries to our Profantasy user library. Check out these beautiful new additions:
1. Richard Brunke’s Last Hold map created with the Jon Roberts Overland style from this year’s Annual.
The November Annual issue was released on Tuesday, providing a detailed floorplan and street map of Moe’s Dive, a generic seedy bar to use in your adventures. It also contains a combined City Designer 3/Dungeon Designer 3 template for those close-up street battle maps.
We’ve just released the October Annual for subscribers to download: A beautiful map style inspired by classic fiction treasure maps. It allows users to easily create handouts for their game and set their players on the trail of that elusive treasure hoard.
September 2011: Military Operations
Due to after-GenCon demands and vacation times, we didn’t get around to posting about the September Annual when it was released. Here is sneak peek at the military operations type maps that can be created with its included style.
