Welcome to the September newsletter. Here in the northern hemisphere the summer is drawing to a close and we are preparing for the second big convention of the year (Spiel in Germany) and busy autumn season.

News

• Find out what’s on the Cartographer’s Desk and what progress we are making on our next releases.
• Check out the August and September Annual issues.

Resources

• We’ve released a mini add-on for City Designer 3: The Celtic Village symbols by Scott Aniolowski.
• Remy takes a look at map notes in CC3+ drawings and what uses they have.
• The question of how to take a section of a regional map and create a local map from it pops up quite regularly on the forum and Remy gives you a more detailed answer than the CC3+ manual can.
• We present another small selection of user maps in August and September’s Map of the Month highlights.

Articles

• Joe Sweeney takes a stab at creating custom textures – and tiling ones at that – for CC3+ and presents his new repository for these.
• Josh Plunkett presents the Realmworks project for the CC3+ Community Atlas.
• Antonios S. reviews Dioramas 3, Perspectives 3 and the Annual Vol 11 on RPGNet.

Welcome to the July newsletter, dear cartographers! While we are now preparing our yearly pilgrimage Gen Con – the Best Four Days in Gaming, we also have a lot of news for you. Dioramas 3 has now been released, and with the WW2 Interactive Altas we have updated the last of our product line to work with CC3+. Finally, the July Annual with its Dioramas 3 example and tutorial has been released. Our authors are no less busy: Remy Monsen explains how to dynamically show and hide features in a CC3+ drawing, while Pär Lindström discusses his experience of creating Annual issues and Sue Daniel digs into (or should we say “climbs unto”) roof architecture with her tutorial on creating realistically shaded onion domes.

News

• Dioramas 3 has been released. You can download several example sheets and try you hand at paper modeling if you want to give it a try!
• World War 2 Interactive Atlas is now compatible with CC3+.
• The July Annual issue is available.
• Find ProFantasy Software at GenCon at booth #1317.

Resources

• Remy explains how to show and hide map features in CC3+.
• We represent July’s Maps of the Month, a selection of interesting or beautiful (or both) maps from the user community.

Articles

• Sue Daniel teaches us how to construct a roof that looks like an onion dome from above in City Designer 3.
• Pär Lindström shares his thoughts on creating Annual issues for ProFantasy Software.

Welcome to the June newsletter, dear cartographers! We take a look at the progress of Dioramas 3, and Remy helps us Understanding Styles in CC3+. Mike Schley writes about Mapping Narratives and Pär Lindström finishes his series with the third article on overland mapping. Finally, check out new Maps of the Month from the user community.

News

• Dioramas 3 is coming along nicely and should be in beta testing soon. Take a look at what’s on the Cartographer’s Desk to complete it.
• The June issue of the Cartographer’s Annual 2018 is available.

Resources

• Remy explains the concept and details of drawing styles in CC3+. Check out this especially useful article!
• Check out some highlights of community-made maps in our Maps of the Month selection.

Articles

• Pär Lindström finishes his tutorial about drawing overland maps in CC3+.
• Mike Schley talks about Mapping Narratives, giving as an exclusive look into his thought processes when designing his beautiful maps.

Welcome to the May newsletter, dear cartographers! We have news on the Source Maps series this month, another update for CC3+, two detailed articles on scale and scaling of maps by Remy Monsen and Glynn Seal, the second part of Pr Lindström’s series on overland maps and Maps of the Month from the user community.

News

• The Source Maps series of products (Castles! Temples, Tombs & Catacombs! and Cities!) are now compatible with CC3+.
• Update 17a is available on the registration page to bring your version of CC3+ up to 3.84.
• The May issue of the Cartographer’s Annual 2018 is available.

Resources

• Remy takes a detailed look at scaling maps in CC3+.
• Check out some highlights of community-made maps in our Maps of the Month selection.
• Joshua Plunkett has added a lot more video tutorials on his YouTube channel over the recent months.

Articles

• Pär Lindström continues his tutorial about drawing overland maps in CC3+.
• Glynn Seal gives us a Sense of Scale in his article on the role of scale of maps.
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Welcome to the April newsletter, dear cartographers! We have some news on the Dioramas add-on and the Source Maps series this month, a run-down by Remy on the new update for CC3+, Sue finishes her parchments and scrolls tutorial, while Pär Lindström starts his own on overland mapping.

News

• Take a look at what’s on the cartographer’s desk: Dioramas Pro can now be installed with CC3+, Dioramas 3+ is in the works and Source Maps compatibility updates will be available soon.
• Update 16 is available on the registration page to bring your version of CC3+ up to 3.82.
• The April issue of the Cartographer’s Annual 2018 is available.
• The May issue of the Annual can be previewed here.

Resources

• Remy takes a look at how to leverage the new features in Update 16 for CC3+.
• Check out some highlights of community-made maps in our Maps of the Month selection.
• Joe Sweeney takes a look at creating interchangeable tiles for starships in his latest Master mapping class.

Articles

• Sue Daniel finishes her tutorial on how to create parchments and parchment scrolls with a detailed look on how to create 3D scroll shapes from your parchment textures.
• Pär Lindström begins his tutorial showing his complete procedure for drawing overland maps in CC3+.

Welcome to the March newsletter, cartographers! We have a preview of a new product line, Remy’s monthly article, Sue Daniel continues her tutorial and Jon C Munson II tells you how he imitates the art of Mike Schley.

News

• We are announcing a new line of products and giving a first glimpse of the artwork with the Token Treasury 1 – Foes you love to hate.
• The March issue of the Cartographer’s Annual 2018 is available.
• Take a sneak preview of the April issue of the Annual 2018 here.

Resources

• In his latest article, Remy Monsen teaches you how to leverage the new features of CC3+.
• Check out some highlights of community-made maps in our Maps of the Month selection.
• Josh Plunkett has an excellent YouTube channel with a growing number of tutorials for CC3+ and its add-ons.

Articles

• Sue Daniel continues her tutorial on how to create parchments and parchment scrolls with some optional extras to make them look even better.
• Jon C Munson II proves that imitation is the highest form of flattery in his article on creating symbols in the drawing style of Mike Schley.

Be sure to check out our community forum and the CC3+ Facebook user group for discussions, help, suggestions and many, many maps.

Welcome to the February newsletter! Apart from an update to Fractal Terrains and a new column by Remy Monsen, we have two cartography articles from our Annual contributors – a feature we will continue in future months.

News

• A new version of Fractal Terrains 3 is available: 3.0.21 which improves the Finding Rivers function, ensuring they always appear. You can download an update from your registration page.
• The February issue of the Cartographer’s Annual 2018 is available. The symbol pack Dungeon Walls allows you to create detailed and varied walls for your underground complexes.
• The January issue of the Annual 2018 offered a hex-version of Mike Schley’s overland style from CC3+.
• The Community Mapping Project is running a mapping competition. Anyone submitting a map to the project in February participates, so there is still time.

Resources

Articles

• Christina Trani describes her process for creating the battle-maps for March’s Annual issue The Curse of the Lich-king.
• Sue Daniel shows how to use GIMP to create parchment textures for use in CC3+.

Another year is coming to a close, and we have a slew of Christmas present in store: A free extension Symbol Set 4, an update for CC3+, the Cartographer’s Annual 2018 is available for subscription and Remy finishes a one-year run of the “Command of the week”.

News

• Symbol Set 4 – Dungeons of Schley gets a free expansions with the Schleyscapes – Forlorn Cottage artwork.
• The Cartographer’s Annual 2018 is now available for subscription. Take a look at the upcoming content here.
• CC3+ Update 14 adds new functions, updates existing ones and fixes a long list of small issues.
• The final two Annual 2017 months are available with a set of Village Battle Maps (November) and the Cthulhu City style by Pär Lindström (December).

Resources

• The Cartographer’s Annual 2017 finishes with a free bonus issue by Sue Daniel.
• We take a look at the highlights of Remy Monsen’s “Command of the Week” series.

Articles

• Guest blogger Randy Ellefson takes a look at “How mountains affect rainfall” in his article on world-building.

With Ralf back from his long trip we’ve dived with renewed vigor into updating the remaining add-ons for CC3+. Helped by Jeff Salus, this month sees two new updates for the Annuals. Remy is working on an updated Tome, and Ralf on the Source Maps products and Dioramas.

News

• Remy Monsen has updated and expanded the Tome of Ultimate Mapping to cover CC3+ and all its new features. The Tome has now more than 700 pages!
• The Annuals Vol 5, 6 and 7 have been updated to work with CC3+. They have been released together with Update 10 for CC3+, bring the version number to 3.76
• The March and April issue of the Annual 2017 have been released, bringing you a Wild West map style by Pär Lindström and a SciFi Galaxy style by Joe Sweeney.

Resources

• Joe Sweeney has started a new series of video tutorials for CC3+. Join his Mapping Master Class to see them all.
• He also accompanies the April Annual issue with a video tutorial, showing off the use of the High Space Galaxy style in person.
• The Community Mapping Project is a world-building project from our community forum and produces amazing maps.

Articles

• Ralf reports on his trip to the southern hemisphere in the Cartographer’s Travels.

With 2016 upon us, we’ve been working hard on Perspectives 3 and it’s in late beta with no significant problems so far. The new Annual is in its second month and our users have once again amazed us with their cartographic talents.

News

• The Cartographer’s Annual 2016 is available for subscription, and you can download the January and February issues immediately, if you do so.
• The Cartographer’s Annual Vol 9 (2015) is now complete and available as a single package from our store. If you are already a subscriber and want the physical box, you can order the media at shipping cost only from your registration page.

Resources

• We’ve made one issue from the Cartographer’s Annual 2015 available as a free download as a sampler.
• The Vintyri Cartographic Collection is awesome resource for your city mapping. It adds hundreds of symbols to City Designer 3, all based on historic medieval towns and buildings architecture.

Articles

• Take a look at what’s on the Cartographer-On-Duty’s desk, including a report on the state of Perspectives 3.
• Check out the December and January collection of user maps from the community forum.