If you’ve missed any of the live mapping sessions we do on YouTube most weeks, showcasing a certain style or set of tools in CC3+, you’ll find them archived and organized into playlists on YouTube. Here are the most recent ones:
Welcome dear cartographer to the latest monthly community maps, i.e. the Maps of the Month from March. Thank you for all your great contributions to our forum and the Facebook group!
We start with this amazing map of the world of Krynn by Dak. He’s used Sue Danie’s latest Birdseye Overland style for the map.
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The April issue of the Cartographer’s Annual is now available. Bubble Gum Fantasy is a whimsical and colorful style by new contributor Will B. Quick and easy to use, the style allows you draw maps like illustrations in computer or mobile games.
The April issue is now available for all subscribers from their registration page. If you haven’t subscribed to the Annual 2025 yet, you can do so here.
Everyone loves a pretty map, even me. But there is also more to maps than their visual appeal, it is the information they convey. An aerial photo of your hometown may tell you exactly how it looks visually and how it is laid out, but it provides very little information about what can be found where in the town. And this is what separates a map from a photo, the additional information it contains that explains what we see in the map.
Today I’ll look into a feature from City Designer – City Demographics. City Demographics in CD3 is a coloring system that lets you color buildings by function (for example residential, commerce, accommodation). This is also a toggle feature which means you can show a nice pretty map for illustrative purposes, and when you need demographics, you can simply turn it on temporarily. Continue reading »
News
- The March issue of the Cartographer’s Annual 2025 is now available, providing a beautiful new overland style by Sue Daniel.
- The free monthly symbols schedule is back on track with the March set which provide height transition for outdoor maps.
Resources
- Mike Schley provides new dungeon symbols with the February free symbols.
- Watch or re-watch the recent live mapping video from our playlist on YouTube.
- Check out the community’s Maps of the Month for February.
Articles
- Remy Monsen goes in-depth by looking at the bitmap resolution formats in Campaign Cartographer 3+.
Reminders
- CC3+’s current version is 3.98. Check in Help > About and if your version is older, run Update 28 for CC3+ available from your registration page.
- Join our community of map-makers on the Profantasy forum and/or the Facebook group.
Welcome dear cartographers to another month of mapping goodness from the Profantasy community. Check out some of the great maps they shared on the forum and in our Facebook group.
We start of with RoyalScribe‘s ongoing work on the temple of Zhao Guang Si monastery with the Trial of the Elements, a wonderful dungeon map using DD3 Dungeon and a variety of other styles.
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If you’ve missed any of the live mapping sessions we do on YouTube most weeks, showcasing a certain style or set of tools in CC3+, you’ll find them archived on YouTube. Here are the most recent ones:
We’re back on schedule with the March monthly symbols! We are climbing up towards the light this month, instead of descending of the dark of the dungeon. Height differences are always hard to depict on a top down map, so Mike has produced symbols that help with that. The “Outdoor Heights” symbol pack contains cliff edges, slopes, and a variety of helpful tools to navigate them, from rope ladders to climbing poles.
Note that the example maps included with this free content make use of Symbol Set 4 to showcase the symbols in proper surroundings. If you don’t have SS4 installed, you won’t see these correctly, but you can still use the symbols on other maps. Symbol Set 4 – Dungeons of Schley is available for purchase here.
To download the free content go to your registration page and on the Downloads tab, click the download button for Campaign Cartographer 3 Plus. Mike’s new symbols are listed there. All the content of year is included in the one download.
You can always check the available monthly content on our dedicated page.
Sorry for a little delay in getting the February symbols to you, but Mike was exceptionally busy. Hopefully we are now back on track and will get the March set to you this month. The February set brings you a colorful collection of mushrooms, fungi and lichen tp decorate the fungal caves of your mega dungeon. The monsters and other inhabitants do need something to eat after all!
Note that the example maps included with this free content make use of Symbol Set 4 to showcase the symbols in proper surroundings. If you don’t have SS4 installed, you won’t see these correctly, but you can still use the symbols on other maps. Symbol Set 4 – Dungeons of Schley is available for purchase here.
To download the free content go to your registration page and on the Downloads tab, click the download button for Campaign Cartographer 3 Plus. Mike’s new symbols are listed there. All the content of year (so far only January 2025) is included in the one download.
You can always check the available monthly content on our dedicated page.
Here is the March issue of the Cartographer’s Annual 2025. This month we have a treat for you with a wonderful new style by Sue Daniel. She created a top-down landscape style for sprawling, colorful continental maps, along with a mapping guide taking you through her process of map creation.
The March issue is now available for all subscribers from their registration page. If you haven’t subscribed to the Annual 2025 yet, you can do so here.
