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.

It’s been a while since our last newsletter – we’ve been focused on getting CC3+ ready for release. This month features an exclusive offer on a great piece of map-making kit – The Noteboard, an update on CC3+ and video resources.

News

• CC3+ Update the latest on CC3+
• The August,  September, October and November issues of the Cartographer’s Annual’s are available
• The Noteboard Offer – not all maps need a PC
• Pelgrane, meet ProFantasy – maps for a tabletop RPG company
• ProFantasy Spiel’14 convention report by Ralf Schemmann

Resources

• User Maps – July to November amazing inspiration from CC3 users on the forum
• Video mini-Tutorials for CC3 and add-ons check out Ralf’s video tutorials
• Dungeon Designer 3 Battle Map Video Tutorial
• A map for 13th Age in the Mike Schley style The Mike Schley style is included in CC3+

Map-making Articles

• I Love Maps – by Benjamin Descovich using CC3 to create a map for a novel

Dear Cartographers, welcome to the April newsletter!

News

• Symbol Set 4 – The Dungeons of Schley has been released.
• The March and April issues of the Cartographer’s Annual 2014 are available.
• Artist and cartographer Mike Schley judged the January map-making competition for us and selected Christian Stiehl’s Cloiser Island map as the winner. Congratulations, Christian!
• We have opened an new map-making competition for April. Create a small cave, hide-out or lair to win a Unlimited Patron License.

Resources

• Browse through the beautiful user maps posted on the ProFantasy forum during Ferbuary and March.
• Want to see what amazing maps where submitted to our January competition? You can check them out here all side-by-side.
• See which drawing style you would like to use for your Dungeon Floorplans.
• Download one of many A1-sized battle maps from Ralf’s Deadlands campaign.

Map-making articles

• Winner Christian Stiehl sums up his thoughts on and experiences with the January competition.
• Read author Nat Russo’s excellent World Building Primer.
• Check out what Simon suggests if you need to draw an overland map for a fantasy novel.

Dear Cartographers, welcome to the February newsletter!

News

• We are announcing the Dungeons of Schley, a new symbol set in development.
• The February issue of the Cartographer’s Annual 2014 is available, bringing you an in-depth look at creating paper miniatures with the help of Characater Artist 3.
• Profantasy’s January map-making competition is still open until the end of the month. Enter to win one of our Unlimited Patron Licenses by submitting your map on the forum.

Resources

• Check out The January collection of community maps, again including great artwork from our users.
• Download the Symbol Creation Guide for Character Artist 3. It provides a detailed tutorial on how to create and import your own bitmap symbols to use in CA3.

Map-making articles

• Read some wonderful feedback and see a gorgeous map from one of our users.