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In February’s Annual we are looking at city mapping once more, but with a twist: The Annual issue contains an isometric style that Sue Daniel has created by building house models in SketchUp and exporting them as CC3+ symbols.
Created as full 3D models the symbols are based on real-world Tudor-style houses and fit together seamlessly at various angles, allowing you to create streets lined by adjoining houses. resulting in a beautiful and evocative, three-dimensional view of the settlement.
If you haven’t done so already, you can subscribe to the Annual 2019 here. If you are already subscribed, the February issue will be available for download on your registration page on the first of February.
A new version of CC3+ is available now, fixing a few nagging bugs and enabling some text specs for macro access.
Version Notes
CC3+ Version 3.90
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– Fixed problem with CC3+ crashing when running out of cache. Should increase stability significantly.
– Fixed Symbol Set 1 forest tools breaking selection method
– Enabled Outline and Fixed Angle flags for TSPECS command
– Text no longer renders as ClearType, instead renders as aliased glyphs, removing halos with effects.
Download this latest update from your registration page.
Belated welcome to the Cartographer’s Annual 2019! Why belated you say? Well, the January issue has been available since a few days before the New Year and subscribers have already created maps with the new style!
If you haven’t done so yet, head over to your registration page and download the January issue to try the new “Worlds of Wonder” overland style. It makes use of a great new set of bitmap fills and over 100 symbols to create beautiful worlds, continents and countries. Previews for the February and March issues are also available.
You can subscribe to the Annual 2019 here. If you are already subscribed, the January issue is available for download on your registration page.
Did you know that CC3+ (including all addons) contains over 1000 commands in total? And that new ones gets added with just about every update?
Today, we’ll have a quick look at two of the somewhat more recent commands; Select nearby symbols and Delete nearby symbols. Both these commands are intended to help you manipulate symbols that are near another entity. This can for example help you clean up symbols that are too near a river, or help you select all the houses along your main street, for example so you can change their varicolor.
Below is an example of a forest with a river running through it. On the left image, the trees are obstructing the river, while on the left one, Delete nearby symbols have been run to automatically delete the trees near the river.
The 12th year of the Cartographer’s Annual is coming to a close and as usual we have a bonus issue available for our subscribers, while another issue is made freely available to the public.
The bonus issue contains a set of almost 200 bitmap symbols by Sue Daniel, adding a wide range of high detail domed roof symbols which can be used in City Designer 3 or on their own. It meshes perfectly with the city styles already published in 2018’s Annuals, adding even more variety to your cityscapes.
We didn’t want to restrict October’s video tutorial to Annual subscribers only, so we’ve made that issue freely available to anyone. The download can be accessed from October’s web page, and the video is now public on our YouTube channel.
Cartographer’s Annual 2019
At the same time, subscription to the 2019 Cartographer’s Annual (Vol. 13) is now open. We think we have some great material in store for you, starting with a beautiful overland style in January, isometric city symbols in February and a detailed science fiction location in March. Check out the previews on the 2019 Annual site.
If you are a current subscriber or were subscribed in 2016 or 2017, you should have received an offer to resubscribe at special discount price via email. If you want to start fresh with 2019’s Annual, you can
subscribe at our pre-release price. The first issue will become available at the start of the new year.
Subscribe here for another twelve months of mapping goodness!
We’ve been working hard on the new Token Treasury product line and are happy to make the first set available as a pre-release offer.
We’ve expanded the range of monsters in the first set to 100, and created them both in a round and a square variant, so you can choose you’re preferred token look. Both come with a set of frames depicting the monster’s combat role (melee, ranged, magic-user or captain). These can be freely mixed and matched, creating hundreds of possible combinations.
The CC3+ version of the token set comes with everything neatly organized in sets of symbol catalogs and contains templates on which you can easily combine monsters and frames and then export them to you jpg or png format for use in the virtual tabletop software or your choice. Of course you can also simply plop them into your Dungeon Designer 3 map!
The pre-release version will install only if you own Campaign Cartographer 3+, but the full version (to be released early next year) will offer you the option to install it separately, for direct use in any virtual tabletop software or the graphics package of your choice. There will be no need to re-purchase the full version; you will receive a new setup file. There may be a few other changes and additions in the full version.
The Token Treasury – Monsters is now available at a special pre-release discount of 15%. Just follow this link to order it.
A new version of CC3+ is available now, fixing a few bugs and preparing CC3+ for the next releases.
Version Notes
CC3+ Version 3.89
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– Fixed grids not aligning correctly to snap points
– Fixed drawing tools not displaying preview
– Fixed Common sheet not being selectable in sheet dialog
– Fixed TEXPORT, TFIND, and TREPLACE not showing dialogs
CC3+ Version 3.88
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– Fixed bug with wall-cutting symbols not working properly
For the end of the year we blast off into space and the future with the Deckplan Geomorphs tool pack. Inspired by the work of Robert Pearce on Yet Another Traveller Blog, we’ve created the tools that allow you to create geomorphic deckplan tiles.
Of course we’ve also included a set of examples that you can modify or use straight out of the box to create large starship or space station layouts by simply assembling the tiles into various configurations. It’s as easy as importing a file, rotating it and placing it on the template adjacent to previous tiles. With Cosmographer 3, you can even just continue working on such a constructed deckplan with the normal starship tools.
Keep your eyes open for the upcoming 2018 bonus issue (by Sue Daniel) and the opportunity to resubscribe for the 2019 Cartographer’s Annual in mid-December.
You can subscribe to the Annual 2018 here. If you are already subscribed, the November issue is now available for download on your registration page.
Welcome, mappers, to the November newsletter. We have a focus on city mapping this month, with video tutorials by Joe Sweeney, an article by Jay Johnson and the topic of the November Annual.
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