User-contributed Tutorials

The users of Profantasy's software out there are creating a lot of wonderful maps. Now they are also sharing their knowledge and mapping techniques with you!

DD3 Video Tutorials

Joseph Sweeney (www.the-sweeneys.com) has created a set of video tutorials showing the creation of a dungeon floorplan with Dungeon Designer 3. It is an excellent introduction to the basic features of the program and also contains lots of useful hints and tips for more advanced users.

Tutorial 1:
Quick and Easy Dungeon Building

Joseph takes you through his approach to drawing rooms, floors and walls to create your dungeon layout.

View Video (wmv-format, 25MB)

Tutorial 2:
Customizing Sheets and Exporting Maps

In this tutorial Joseph takes a look at adding and changing sheets effects on your maps, and also discusses exporting maps in bitmap format for use in virtual rpg tabletops.

View Video (wmv-format, 15MB)

Tutorial 3:
Creating Custom Rooms and the Use of Layers

Joseph delves deeper into the functions of CC3 and DD3 to show you how to create rooms with more complicated layouts.

View Video (wmv-format, 31MB)

All-in-one Download

You can also download all three videos together to view them offline at your leisure. Just click this link and save it to your hard drive: Download Videos (zip-file, 67MB)

Feedback

Joseph and we would be happy to hear your feedback on these video tutorials. Did you like them? What could be improved? What topics would you like covered? Just send us an email.

 

PDF Tutorials

Creating Symbol Catalogs from PNG images

Gerri Broman has compiled a pdf tutorial on how to quickly and easily produce a CC3 symbol catalog from a collection of PNG bitmap images.

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