Dear fellow map-makers we hope you are safe and sound wherevery you are in the world, no matter which borders you live in. Like so many others, we at Profantasy Software look at what is happening in Ukraine with horror and great concern and as a company we’ve decided to support humanitarian relief efforts via British-Ukrainian Aid. But we also need to let you know what happened concerning our software last month – which seems to have a wintry theme – so here we go.

News

• The free monthly symbols for this month add snow-covererd hills and trees to your options in the Mike Schley overland style.
• The March issue of the Annual 2022 is available, featuring a new city style called “Winter Village” by Sue Daniel.

Resources

• Check out the most recent live mapping videos from our playlist on YouTube.
• Browse through the community’s Maps of the Month for March to see what your fellow map-makers have produced.

Articles

• Ralf gives a preview of the next symbol set in the making: Isometric Cities by Mike Schley.
• Remy Monsen looks at the indexing function of CC3+ and how to create a searchable archive of your maps.

Reminders

• CC3+ has been updated to version 3.97 (Update 27) which is available from your registration page.
• Fractal Terrains 3+ has been released and is available from among your FT3 downloads on your registration page.
• Join our community of map-makers on the Profantasy forum and/or the Facebook group.

Dear fellow map-makers, we hope you had a good start into the year 2022.

News

• Check out the new free monthly content for CC3+: alien plants and majestic trees for the Mike Schley overland style.
• The Feberuary issue of the Annual 2022 is available, featuring the an overland style with a book frame by Pär Lindström.

Resources

• Check out the most recent live mapping videos from our playlist on YouTube.
• Browse through the community’s Maps of the Month for February to see how your fellow map-makers have started the mapping year.

Articles

• Matthew Verdini is producing and selling some very nice battle maps created with CC3+ for virtual and real tabletops. Check out some samples of his work.
• Remy Monsen continues his development of dynamic dungeon tools. Follow this excellent exercise and tutorial on programming your own extensions for CC3+.

Reminders

• CC3+ has been updated to version 3.97 (Update 27) which is available from your registration page.
• Fractal Terrains 3+ has been released and is available from among your FT3 downloads on your registration page.
• Join our community of map-makers on the Profantasy forum and/or the Facebook group.

Hello fellow map-makers! We hope you had wonderful holidays and an an amazing New Year. Welcome to 2022, and hopefully another good year of mapping.

News

• The Cartographer’s Annual 2022 is available for subscription, giving you immediate access to the January issue.
• Check out the new free monthly content for CC3+: The Great Wall for the Mike Schley overland style.
• The January issue of the Annual 2022 is available, featuring the an overland style for a crossover between CC3+ and FT3+.
• The Cartographer’s Annual Vol 15 (2021) is now available as one complete setup.

Resources

• Check out the most recent live mapping videos from our playlist on YouTube.
• Browse through the community’s Maps of the Month for December for some inspiration for your own maps.

Articles

• Are you experiencing issue with missing bitmap textures in older or custom map styles, instead showing a Red X? Remy Monsen explains the possible causes and how to fix them.
• Jason Payne explains his way of creating “heatmaps” in CC3+, i.e. maps highlighting locations, patterns and density of specific features.

Reminders

• CC3+ has been updated to version 3.97 (Update 27) which is available from your registration page.
• Fractal Terrains 3+ has been released and is available from among your FT3 downloads on your registration page.
• Join our community of map-makers on the Profantasy forum and/or the Facebook group.

Hello fellow map-makers! What’s up in November you ask? A lot, we say. Check out a new version of Fractal Terrains, a huge Humble Bundle and much more.

News

• We have released a new version of Fractal Terrains: Fractal Terrains 3 Plus free to existing users.
• Check out the new free monthly content for CC3+: Desert Symbols for the Mike Schley overland style.
• The November issue of the Annual 2021 is available, featuring the Pete Fenlon Revisited overland style.

Resources

• The “Maps Bonanza” campaign is ongoing on Humble Bundle. Even if you already own CC3+ and some of its add-ons, this can be a great opportunity to round out your collection.
• Check out the most recent live mapping videos from our playlist on YouTube.
• Browse through the community’s Maps of the Month for October.

Articles

• Remy Monsen continues his series on developing add-ons for Campaign Cartographer, creating dynamic dungeon tools in the process.
• Anders Bergström explains his process in creating his awe-inspiring aquarell-style Doodles & Drawings in CC3+.

Hello map-makers! Our apologies for the slightly delayed newsletter this month; Ralf was enjoying a couple of weeks off. But he’s back now, and we have your regulary monthly mapping goodness for you.

News

• New free monthly content for CC3+ is available: Coastal Symbols for the Mike Schley overland style.
• The October issue of the Annual 2021 is available, featuring a Dioramas set and style for building a science fiction colonial outpost.

Resources

• Check out the most recent live mapping videos from our playlist on YouTube. Remy took over from Ralf for a couple weeks, so you have a variety of hosts.
• Browse through the community’s Maps of the Month for September.

Articles

• Seeing that we are currently running a public beta for the latest update for CC3+, Remy presents the new features included in this version.
• We are very happy to present the latest recipient of our Master Mapper award: Alastair McBeath is our Master Mapper of 2020!

Hello dear cartographers, welcome to the August newsletter. Mike Schley has created another set of symbols for you, we have a tutorial pack in the Annual about repeating textures, you can check out many beautiful community maps, videos and articles by Christina and Remy.

News

• New free monthly content for CC3+ is available: Abandoned places for the Mike Schley overland style.
• The August issue of the Annual 2021 is available, teaching you how to make best use of repeating textures in CC3+.

Resources

• To celebrate the 13th Age Humble Bundle offer, we created a little free bundle of 13th Age-themed Annual issues.
• Check out the most recent live mapping videos from our playlist on YouTube.
• Browse through the community’s Maps of the Month for July.

Articles

• Remy Monsen shows you how to best add secret corridors to your maps so your players don’t find them too early!
• Christina Trani continues her journey through All the Annuals with the Marine Maps, Village Battle Maps, and Cthulhu City issues from the Annual 2017.

Hello fellow cartographers, welcome to the July newsletter. We’ve got new free symbols by Mike Schley for you, a beautiful new aquatic-themed Annual taking us below the sea, many beautiful maps, lots of videos and a technical article by Remy.

News

• The monthly content for CC3+ is available: Orcish settlements for the Mike Schley overland style.
• The July issue of the Annual 2021 is available, diving below the waves with a beautiful and special floorplan style by Sue Daniel.

Resources

• Check out the most recent live mapping videos from our playlist on YouTube.
• Browse through the community’s Maps of the Month for June.
• Ralf revisited more issues from the first Annual Volume (2007), and Sue prepared example maps for these.

Articles

• Remy Monsen shows you how to keep your map borders looking clean with a look at the map screen.
• Christina Trani continues her journey through All the Annuals with Parchment Maps issue from the Annual 2017.

Hello dear map-makers, welcome to the June newsletter. We’ve got lots of example maps for you, by Sue Daniel, Christina Trani and the whole user community, as well as another great technical article by Remy Monsen.

News

• Starting this month we are releasing monthly free content for Campaign Cartographer 3+. The first is a batch of new symbols by Mike Schley!
• The June issue of the Annual 2021 is available, providing templates and tools to create genealogy and family trees.

Resources

• Check out the most recent live mapping videos from our playlist on YouTube.
• Browse through the community’s Maps of the Month for May.
• After Ralf revisited the third Annual issue from 2007, Sue prepared new example map for the same using DD3 and the Fantasy Tavern style.

Articles

• Remy Monsen takes a look at one of the more rarely used sheet effects, the Spatial Matrix Process transformation.
• Christina Trani continues her journey through All the Annuals with Random Cities issue from the Annual 2017.

Hello fellow map-makers, welcome to the May newsletter. We’ve got lots of example maps for you, by Sue Daniel, Christina Trani and the whole user community, as well as another great technical article by Remy Monsen.

News

• The May issue of the Annual 2021 is available.

Resources

• Check out the most recent live mapping videos from our playlist on YouTube.
• Browse through the community’s Maps of the Month for April.

Articles

• Remy Monsen delves into symbol options, specifically ways to randomly tranform certains aspects of a symbol as it gets placed in a map.
• Christina Trani continues her journey through All the Annuals with Munson’s Mines from the Annual 2017.
• Ralf revisits the first Annual issues from 2007, while Sue prepares new example maps for the same.

Dear mappers, the first quarter of the year has flown past and although it is unlikely we’ll see each other at conventions this year, the signs are there that the pandemic will loosen its grip on the world in the coming months. We are certainly looking forward to be travelling again, and to be sharing the maps we create virtually with our gaming groups in person. But until then we can still be content to share them virtually, as so many of our users do in the Profantasy community forum and the Facebook group. You’ll find a sample selection of these below, along with the latest Annual issue, example maps by Christina Trani, a superbly useful article by Remy and the latest live videos.

News

• The April issue of the Annual 2021 is available.
• The winners of the Community Atlas mapping competition have been decided and the prize vouchers have been distributed.

Resources

• Check out the most recent live mapping videos from our playlist on YouTube.
• Browse through the community’s Maps of the Month for February.

Articles

• Christina Trani hast started on the next volume of the Cartographer’s Annual (Vol 11 – 2017) in her All the Annuals series. Check out a Black & White overland map, new wizard’s tower, a Wild West map and a star map maps.
• Remy Monsen provides a very useful guide on how to grid your dungeon floors, if you don’t want to slap a quick grid over your whole map.