News

• The November Annual issue has been released. It expands on July’s Spectrum Overland style with many new symbols.

Resources

• We have many new live mapping videos available on YouTube. If you have time, you can join us on Thursday live at 5pm GMT for the actual sessions.
• Get inspired by the Maps of the Month for October, selected from all the great work of our user community.
• Check out our collection of this year’s city mapping resources.

Articles

• After finishing the 2019 Annual, Christina Trani steps back in time to go through all of the 2018 issues with example maps and comments. Available so far are January, February, March, April, and May.
• Remy Monsen takes a look at using multiple symbol styles in the same map and how to make that as easy as possible.
• In a more advanced article Remy continues his series on Developing add-ons with part 4: Interacting with CC3+.

News

• For the September Annual issue Sue Daniel a series of connecting cliff symbols to include in city maps.
• We have updated the ProFantasy Forum with a new version of the Vanilla forum software, which adds a lot of useful functionality. Check it out if you want to join our community.

Resources

• We’ve switched to YouTube for hosting our Live Mapping video tutorials, and of course they are all available for viewing.
• Check out our selection of last month’s community maps here.
• Remy Monsen’s article on symbol groups (see below) is also available in video format.

Articles

• Christina Trani wraps up the rest of Annual 2019 with her maps for the October, November and December issues.
• Remy Monsen looks at symbol groups and how to leverage them for your own use.

This month in the newsletter we’ve got the completion of the City design article series for you, wonderful new community maps, more example Annual maps by Christina and a long list of new YouTube videos.

News

• The August Annual issue bring you a style for retro-design starships, usable with out without Cosmographer 3.

Resources

• The archived live mapping videos of the last month are available on YouTube.
• Enjoy a selection of beautiful Maps of the Month created by our users in July.

Christian Trani continues her “All the Annuals“ series , where she creates a map for each of the Annual issues, starting with the Annual 2019. Check out the maps for July, August, and September of that year.

Articles

• Ari Gilder finsihes his series on city building with a discussion of final touches for the map.
• Remy Monsen looks at creating day and night versions of the same map. You can also check out his video version of the article.

Welcome to the second half of the year, dear fellow map-makers. June has been an amazing month with many new mappers joining our community via the Humble Bundle campaign. Thank you all for joining in and supporting Doctors without borders.

News

• The July Annual issue presents the Spectrum Overland style by Sue Daniel.

Resources

• The archived live mapping videos of the last month are available on YouTube.
• Enjoy all the beautiful Maps of the Month created by our users in June.
• Christian Trani continues her “All the Annuals“ series , where she creates a map for each of the Annual issues, starting with the Annual 2019. Check out the maps for April, May, and June of that year.

Articles

• Ari Gilder continues his series on city building with a look at some special features of the city’s districts.
• In part 2 of his Perspectives article Remy Monsen looks at creating battlements for his ruined buildings.

Dear fellow map-makers!

Summer is getting closer here in the northern hemisphere and we are all looking forward to easing out of the lockdowns. We hope you’re staying safe and healthy and still get some quality map-making time! We certainly have a lot of useful articles and resources for you to help with that.

News

• • The June Annual issue – “The Crossroads Inn”, a map pack by Christina Trani – has been released

Resources

• • The archived live mapping video of the last few weeks are available on YouTube.
  • Marvel at the selection of beautiful Maps of the Month created by our users in May.
  • Christian Trani has started a new series titled “All the Annuals“, where she creates a map for each of the Annual issues, starting with the Annual 2019. Check out the maps for January, February, and March of that year.

Articles

• Ari Gilder continues his series on city building with a look at the random street tool in City Designer 3.
• Sue Daniel explains the methods she used in her Orde-on-the-rock city map to achieve the amazing rock elevations.
• Sue also continues her article series on shore and ocean effects with part 3 (Compass roses and rhumb lines) and part 4 (Beaches and Drop Shadows).
• Remy Monsen provides a great way to make Perspectives walls into ruins of themselves.

Dear cartographer’s, we hope you are all still safe and healthy and being able to carefully ease out of the lockdown measures all across the world. We’ve had a lot of articles on the blog last month, check below whether you have missed any of them!

News

• The May Annual issue – “Ryecroft Town”, a city style by Glynn Seal- has been released

Resources

• The archived live mapping video of the last couple weeks are available on YouTube.
• See the selection of Maps of the Month created by our users in April.

Articles

• Sue Daniel started a new series of articles on varying and improving coastlines in CC3+.
• Ari Gilder continues his series on city building with a look at symbol and catalogs in City Designer 3.
• Sue’s second article on shore and ocean effects discusses ocean contours.
• Ari Gilder draws inspiration from real-world cities in his city building series.

Dear cartographer’s, we hope you are all safe and healthy. We at Profantasy are all fine and continuing our work through lockdown and times of social distancing. Let’s see what we’ve been doing last month…

News

• We have a new Master Mapper for 2019: Sue Daniel.
• Our efforts to support research on the current virus outbreak are ongoing.
• The April Annual issue – “Inked Dungeons”, a hand drawn-looking dungeon style – has been released

Resources

• We have started regular live-streaming sessions of map-making with CC3+.
• See the selection of Maps of the Month created by our users in March.

Articles

• Remy Monsen discusses hiding and showing objects on maps intended for virtual tabletop use.
• Ralf Schemmann presents the four drawing styles included in Update 25, and links to their mapping guides and examples.

Welcome to the March newsletter, dear cartographers! We hope you stay healthy (and at home if possible) in these times of pandemic. You could use the time to create some beautiful maps, for example in preparation for your games when all the current restrictions are lifted again, or for online games if you already do these or want to try them out. See our article by Remy Monsen on the topic below.

News

• The March Annual issue is available for download. Check out the Alexandria-class starship and it’s accompanying tutorial on bitmap fills.
• We have released Update 25 for CC3+, adding more city and dungeon capabilities to the base CC3+.
• Until further notice, we have halved the price of Campaign Cartographer 3+ to make it more accessible during the current outbreak.

Resources

• Remy Monsen explains how to prepare and export battle maps from Dungeon Designer 3 for virtual tabletops and then import them into MapTool, Roll20, Fantasy Grounds or d20Pro.
• Check out a sampling of user maps shared by the Profantasy community in February.

Articles

• Ari Gilder posted part 2 of hie article on city building and mapping with City Deisgner 3.
• The German online magazine “Teilzeithelden” (Part-time Heroes) has published a review of Campaign Cartographer 3+ (in German).

Welcome to the February newsletter! We have a first article in a new series on city building for you, a look at the cartographer’s desk, the latest update for CC3+, a way to create a spinning globe image and not one, but two Annual issues!

News

• Update 24, bringing CC3+ up to version 3.93, has been released.
• The February Annual issue – Ferraris Style by Sue Daniel – is available.
• The bonus issue for the Annual 2019 is available and can be downloaded for free by anyone.

Resources

• Create a spinning globe of your world with these instructions by Remy Monsen.
• Check out the community Maps of the Month of January.

Articles

• Ari Gilder starts a new series on designing and building cities with City Designer 3.
• Ralf takes a look at what’s currently on his Cartographer’s Desk.

A Happy New year and welcome to 2020! We hope you had great holidays and are as eager as we to start into a new year of mapping goodness. But let’s take a quick look back at December and what happened at the end of last year. We start out with the new Cartographer’s Annual, set a challenge to bring the Community Atlas to 400 maps, learn about the color palette and multi-sheet symbols and present beautiful user maps from the forum and Facebook communities.

News

• The Cartographer’s Annual 2020 is available for subscription and if you are quick, you can still catch it at the early-subscriber price.
• By now, the January issue of the Annual 2020 is available for download.

Resources

• Starting or re-starting your mapping in 2020? Check out these beginner’s resources.
• The Community Atlas Project needs more maps, and you can help by taking up the Winter Mapping Challenge.
• Check out December’s maps of the month by our community of mappers.

Articles

• Remy looks at managing the color palette in CC3+.
• In a more advanced article by Remy we learn about multi-sheet symbols and how to set them up properly.