What's new in CC3?

CC3 is the latest version of ProFantasy Software's Campaign Cartographer software. The new version of Campaign Cartographer combines the power of computer aided design with beautiful hand-crafted artwork and ease of use to provide what we think is the best and most effective tool for creating maps for roleplaying games and wargames.

• All existing symbol catalogs have been updated with "smart" features and hundreds of new symbol variations.

• CC3 supports very high quality and high resolution art work in png format, including gigabytes of free artwork found online, which you can easily import.

• CC3 includes 300 new smart symbols created by artist Dave Allsop plus variations giving over 900 new symbols in all.

• CC3 supports fixed-scale textures at very high resolution, with transparency.

• CC3 gives you special effects such as glows, drop shadows you can combine and adjust.

• The interface has been streamlined and includes an optional quick toolbar to get you started.

• Each template can have its own set of specially configured drawing tools, giving you access to mapping styles created by master mappers.

• The New Drawing Wizard makes it easy to start new maps of any dimensions and styles.

• Hundreds of time-saving tweaks and fixes to make CC3 faster than ever before.

What was added in the Universal Updates CC2 Pro and Add-Ons

·   Change Properties now lets you change any properties of all selected entities in one easy-to-use dialog box.

·   You can quickly add city names, attack and defense values and other information to your drawing. Attributes now work again with symbols, and you can enter multiple attributes at once.

·   You can fill areas with great-looking hatching. Change like draw tool lets you replace a shape's hatching with that of selected draw tool.

·   Lots of new macro commands to manipulate sheets and interrogate the drawing.

·   Draw tools can now be macros and have user-drawn bmp artwork in the preview. See Macro drawing tools

DD Pro

·   New Random Dungeon generator.

·   Lots of new hatching drawing tools to replace area fills.

·   Lock to Symbol Angle rewritten.

·   Skirmish symbols available on the Dungeon Symbols toolbar. Added skirmish symbol sample to DD Pro.

CA Pro

·   Sheets menu updated to include Sheet dialog box.

CD-Pro

·   Added Modern Varicolor catalog and new menu to include it.

Source Maps: Castles

·   Add Open Gaming Content link to right hand information menu.

Universal Update 7

This was never released into the public domain.

Universal Updates 4,5 and 6

• Reworked drawing tools so that line widths can be proportional to the map border, rather than a set dimension. This allows drawing tools to scale correctly for each template size.

• Moved Drawing tool definitions from the registry to individual files in CC2's system\DrawTools folder.

• Connecting symbols support.

• Hex symbol support

Universal Update 3

• Symbol catalog Options button lets you change the size of the symbol display window and have more than one column of symbols

• A new Add Symbol Info command lets you give symbols extra features. Use it when editing a symbol defintion.

• Symbols can be nested. Press TAB to go through the nested symbols.

• Nested symbols can be selected randomly

• Symbols can be made varicolor based on the current color, with shades either side.

• When you explode text, it creates an individual multipoly for each letter allowing it to work with script fonts.

• Added Align Grid to Tools Menu >> Drawing Aids.

• Explode text, into individual multipolies for each letter, allowing you to use script text

• You can convert a True Type Font into a CC2 Symbol Catalog.

What was introduced in CC2 Pro?

• From the moment you start CC3 you can see the difference. CC3 now welcomes you with an optional Tip of the Day. These tips contain virtually all you need to know.

• There is a 10-minute interactive QuickStart Guide to walk you through the process of creating your first map.

• The File Open dialog box has a preview window. There is also a Browse option.

• For new maps you no longer pre-select a template. When you click File >> New, CC2-Pro now gives you a browse-style choice of template for the new map. When you use add-ons, CC2-Pro automatically switches between relevant templates.

• The lake, river, etc. buttons, have been replaced with map drawing tools that are miles more intelligent. For example landmasses automatically lock to the map border, and have a choice of fractalized, outlined, straight and smoothed.

• The drawing tool buttons all have right-click options and are customisable. There are loads of pre-defined tools, such as meadow, scrub, lakes, swamps, forests, plus you can create your own.

• Most command buttons now have right-click menus. For example, right-clicking the Draw Circle button gives you seven methods for circles and ellipses. You can instantly reprogram the icon to your favourite method.

• CC2-Pro includes cut-down versions of Dungeon Designer Pro's room and corridor commands, and City Designer Pro's building command. There’s also a selection of city and dungeon symbols.

• A new Draw Like command lets you select a drawing entity in your drawing, then proceeds to draw another. Right click Like to access it.

• There is a new Symbol Manager to make it really easy to manipulate symbols in the drawing, edit and create new symbols, and compile and edit symbol catalogs.

• There's a new Symbol Settings dialog box that makes switching between symbol catalogs easier, more customisable and more powerful. This is particularly useful when you have lots of catalogs to choose from. For example, if you click the vegetation button in CC3 you get a list showing the first few symbols in all the matching symbol catalogs. Each setting optionally sets the current layer, color and other drawing properties to customisable values.

• There’s a new option of large toolbar buttons, recommended to go with high resolution displays.

• The interface has been simplified and improved with many similar commands now being combined into one, making menus simpler and commands more obvious.

• The single tool Move, Scale, Rotate lets you drag entities visually, rotate entities - just right click to finish the rotation, or scale them visually.

• All export commands, including Export Window Section have been incorporated into Save As.

• Picture, Insert Text File, Insert Part and XREF have all been combined into Insert File.

• All the various options and preferences scattered around the menus have been combined into a new Options dialog box.

• The various Path, Polygon, Line, Circle, Arc and Offset commands are now combined into single dialog boxes. You can set the default for the drawing button.

What was introduced in version 6?

New Interface Features

There are new Toolbars controlled from the Tools button. Toolbars can now be aligned on the screen.

Color button. Select this to choose a color from the dialog box.

An improved entity selection dialog introduced in version 5.2 now includes tag number and a shortcut for And

A new File toolbar lets you quickly browse through your drawings, search them and create and save lists of them

The Toolbars and menus have been re-designed to reflect the new features.

File Management Features

A powerful file preview and browse utility.

High resolution JPEG and PNG export of the entire drawing using JPEG/PNG export

High resolution export of drawing sections using Save Map Section

Drawing features

New dynamic fractal drawing commands Fractal Path and Fractal Poly let you create complex coastlines on the fly.

Networks are new multi-spanned entities that can be used to create roads and walls. You can vary widths alon each span and they clean up intersections automatically.

Hex Grid and Square Grid are now much more powerful.

Freehand lets you sketch coastlines.

Outline in current color and Outline in black are now available.

New Text commands include:

·   number labelling;

·   improved text insertion;

·   text exploding;

·   Export text.

Editing features

Fractalise lets you create complex fractals from CC3’ entities. You can save your favourite settings.

New dynamic versions of scale, rotate and copy let you change things on the fly with hotkeys for scaling and rotating

Bring In Front of and Send Behind give you control over the order of your entities.

Symbols

You can create smart symbols, which align to other entities, and optionally break or offset from them. Just add control points to your symbol defintions to make your symbols smart.

You can now edit and clone symbol defintions, making symbol catalog creation easy.