When you've made a great looking map, what do you do with it? In summary, view it, print it, export it and link to it. You can also overlay a numbered hex or square grid of any size and, finally, give your map a special touch with effects such as glows, blurs and drop shadows. You can also fill areas with predefined fill styles made from bitmap textures or vector symbols.ĬC3+'s text tools are very simple but powerful, allowing you to move, scale and rotate on the fly so you can fit labels into whatever space you have. With CC3+ you have over 900 symbols to choose from. Next add structures symbols, roads, and other features. First mark out the forested areas with the forest drawing tools, then select the Vegetation icon to place individual symbols around the edge. Click the rivers icon and, using CC3+'s precision, add rivers that start, meander and end exactly where you want. The mountains and contours give you an idea where water will flow. The symbols are carefully designed to add together into regions. Click on a symbol, scale and rotate visually, then place on the map. This opens a symbol palette that contains a wide variety of mountain and hill symbols, as well as setting suitable defaults for color, drawing layer and so on. To add mountain symbols you click the mountains button. To add height detail, CC3+ gives you coloured contours or, for a more fantasy feel, map symbols. You can add land by sketching, clicking or using fractals.Īlternatively, or additionally, you can import land from Fractal Terrains 3 or place a scanned existing map in the background. Choose the default Landmass tool, or one with another style, or customize the land and coast effects to create a new tool. With the Landmass tool CC3+ simplifies what could be the most time-consuming part of overland map creation. Much of what applies to overland mapping also holds true for other maps so we use it here as an example. Here are some examples of how you can approach different types of design. When you've chosen your template you can start mapping. Templates give you a head start on your map making, and CC3+ has many. A starship deck plan could have a key with iris hatches and a pilot's console.
You'll find, for example, that templates for buildings have pre-configured grids to which you can "snap" your walls.
Templates typically have scale bars, compass roses, map borders, their own drawing tools, as well as styles and fonts appropriate for their application. This is a pre-designed blank map, set up for a particular map type.
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