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.

We are making good progress on Perspectives 3, November means Black Friday sale, and the December annual is demoing. Definitely sounds like the year is coming to a close, doesn’t it? Let’s take stock with this month’s newsletter.

The Big Sale

From 27th November until 1st December Tuesday morning, all of our cartography software is available at a 30% discount, including bundles and upgrades.
Use this voucher in the checkout to take advantage of the offer: BLACK@30%.
Get full versions in the store, and upgrades from your registered users page.

News

• A new version of the CC3+ manual is available for all registered users.
• The November Annual has been released, expanding on TJ Vandel’s Ancient Realms style with a set of beautiful vignettes.

Resources

• Check out the November collection of user maps from the community forum.

Articles

• Ralf let’s you peak at the big thing on his desk: Perspectives 3.
• Take a look at deluxe Battle Scenes map, both for the upcoming Annual and as a book my Pelgrane Press.

After attending Spiel, the big German boardgaming fair, our work on updating all the add-ons and symbol sets for CC3+ continues. And we have the compatibility update for Symbol Set 3 for you this month.

News

• CC3+ Update: The compatibility update for Symbol Set 3 – Modern is here!
• The October Annual includes a great new overland style by TJ Vandel. It will be expanded with more wonderful artwork in November.

Resources

• Check out September and October’s round up of user maps from the community forum.
• The Vintyri project has a released a new version of their Cartographic Collection. Download their huge selection of new bitmap fills, floorplan and city symbols for free.

Articles

• On the Cartographer’s Desk – What are we working on right now?
• Ralf reports on his four days at the world’s largest board gaming fair: Spiel in Essen.

Despite conventions, summer holidays and some nasty (fortunately well-healing) injuries at ProFantasy software, we are still hard at work updating all the CC3 material to CC3+. This month we have Symbol Set 2 – Fantasy Floorplans for you!

News

• CC3+ Update: The compatibility update for Symbol Set 2 – Fantasy Floorplans is here!
• The August Annual issue has been released to great acclaim (and some wonderful user maps) on our forum, and the September Annual is prepared to go next week.

Resources

• View July and August’s selection of user maps.
• Read this great tutorial on basic selecting techniques by community member RA Jacobs.

Articles

• Impressions from Gen Con 2015

We are still hard at work updating all the CC3 material to CC3+. This month we have Symbol Set 1 – Fantasy Overland ready for you!

News

• CC3+ Update: The compatibility update for Symbol Set 1 – Fantasy Overland is here!
• Two new Annual issues have become available since the last newsletter: June and July.
• CC3+ Update 2 is now available, fixing some bugs and preparing CC3+ for future add-ons. Log into your registration page to download it.

Resources

• User maps of May and June
• Ralf shares two large-scale battle maps from his ongoing 13th Age campaign.

Articles

• Simon previews the new style for the Source Maps series of map collections.
• Ralf takes a look at using different way to bring your battle maps to the game table.

The process of converting all our products to work with CC3+ continues. This month we have Symbol Set 4 – The Dungeons of Schley available in the updated version.

News

• CC3+ Update: The compatibility update for Symbol Set 4 – The Dungeons of Schley is here!
• The next Annual issue is available: May.

Resources

• User maps of April
• Installing Campaign Cartographer on a Mac by Steven Townshend

Articles

• GamerDad reviews CC3+ together with some other electronic resources for role-playing games.
• Simon previews the new large-scale icons for CC3+ which will make the interface more suitable for very high resolution monitors.
• Ralf takes a look at the upcoming “Dracula Dossier” floorplan style.

We’ve good news for the owners of CC3+ and City Designer, our most comprehensive add-on (CD3) is now available for CC3+ users.

News

• CC3+ Update: The compatibility update for City Designer 3 is here!
• The next Annual issue is available: April.

Resources

• User maps of March
• Multipolys by Joachim de Ravenbel

Articles

• Simon celebrates the release of City Designer for CC3+ with a collection of support material for CD3.
• The second part of the CC3+ user tutorial by R A Jacob.