Cartographer's Annuals

Cartographer's Annuals are collections of premium creative content to expand your map-making horizons.

Each volume delivers a diverse array of material, including new drawing styles, unique symbol sets, curated map collections, and specialized tools for specific types of maps. Every Annual also icludes a comprehensive guide explaining the techniques used, helping you build skills and deepen your mapping mastery.

Volume 10 Content

• Map Pack: 1800s Floorplans
• Style Pack: City Streets
• Style Pack: Dungeon Worlds
• Style Pack: Empire of the Sun
• Style Pack: Here Be Monsters
• Style Pack: Horror House
• Style Pack: Naomi VanDoren's Floorplans
• Style Pack: Realms of Legend
• Style Pack: Temple of Bones
• Style Pack: Woodcut Maps
• Style and Tutorial Pack: Dark Realms
• Tutorial Pack: Scorching Sun

Map Pack: 1800s Floorplans

A combined map and style pack for creating architectural drawings of period buildings, ideal for many games of the horror-genre.

Based on the freely available scan of a historical book containing many architectural examples, the style is easy to use and allows you to reproduce existing floorplans quickly and adjust them to your own needs

The map pack 1800s Floorplans includes:

• 4 example maps (FCW, PNG and PDF format)
• 4-page mappping guide
• 1 new drawing style
• 2 new template wizards (imperial and metric version)
• 50 new drawing tools
• 15 new symbols in 1 new catalog
• 1 new parchment background

Style Pack: City Streets

A wonderful new style by Alyssa Faden: City Streets. It allows you to map city scenes in vivid detail, with beautiful roof and street textures. You can of course also map whole cities in this style.

The "City Streets" style uses high-res bitmap textures and a variety of city symbols. If you own City Designer 3, you can use it's predefined house and street settings to create buildings of any shape and design. The mapping guide takes you through the steps of drawing a whole city scene in detail.

The style pack City Streets includes:

• 1 new drawing style by Alyssa Faden
• 45 new symbols in 1 catalog
• 36 new drawing tools
• 2 new templates (imperial and metric)
• 17 new bitmap fills
• 2 new street settings (imperial and metric)
• 30 new house settings (imperial and metric)
• 1 4-page mapping guide
• 2 example maps (PNG and FCW format)
• 2 new effect settings (imperial and metric)

Style Pack: Dungeon Worlds

A new drawing style by Pär Lindström, designed to map underground realms of regional and larger size.

The style consists a mix of overland tools and dungeon terrain, applying the principles of large scale mapping to underground complexes, a first in CC3 drawing styles. Now you can map the Underdark and similar gigantic places under the earth.

The style pack Dungeon Worlds includes:

• 1 new drawing style by Pär Lindström
• 124 new symbols in 7 catalogs
• 41 new drawing tools
• 2 new templates (imperial and metric)
• 27 new bitmap fills
• 1 4-page mapping guide
• 1 example map (PNG and FCW format)
• 1 new effect setting

Style Pack: Empire of the Sun

A unique overland mapping style to recreate landscape maps as painted by Japanese and Chinese cartographers of the past.

Designed by TJ Vandel, the style reproduces the look of maps created with brush and water-color, presenting the map as a landscape seen from a great height. The included mapping guide takes you through the whole process of creating these beautiful images.

The style pack Empire of the Sun includes:

• 1 new drawing style with 32 new drawing tools
• 2 new overland templates (imperial and metric)
• 358 new bitmaps symbols in 6 catalogs
• 9 new bitmap fills
• 1 exmaple map (FCW and PNG)
• a 4-page tutorial in PDF format
• 1 new effect setting

Style Pack: Here Be Monsters

A style pack created by Pär Lindström. It's a beautiful world or continent map style, with some detailed and beautiful monster images to illuminate the map.

The style pack Here Be Monsters contains all the templates, symbols and tools for you to create colorful fantasy world maps in Pär Lindström's style. The included mapping guide shows you how to create these maps step-by-step.

The style pack Here Be Monsters includes:

• 1 new drawing style by Pär Lindström
• 114 new symbols in 7 catalogs
• 43 new drawing tools
• 2 new templates (imperial and metric)
• 21 new bitmap fills
• 1 5-page mapping guide
• 2 example maps (PNG and FCW format)
• 1 new effect setting
• 1 true type fonts

Style Pack: Horror House

Pär Lindström has created another of his beautiful black & white styles for this style pack. This time he peeks into the narrow confines of the classic haunted or monster-infested house on the hill. Navigate creaking stairs, look carefully under the bed, but don't be surprised if the monster jumps out of the closet behind you!

The drawing style "Horror House" gives you the tools and symbols to create floorplans of modern indoor locations, especially suited for the horror game genre. The included guide takes you through the steps of mapping a complete house in detail.

The style pack Horror House by Pär Lindström includes:

• 1 new drawing style
• 80 new symbols in 9 catalogs
• 23 new drawing tools
• 2 new templates (imperial and metric)
• 4 new bitmap fills
• 1 3-page mapping guide
• 1 example map (PNG and FCW format)
• 1 new effect setting

Style Pack: Naomi VanDoren's FloorPlans

We are proud to present a new artist: Naomi VanDoren, who awed us with her map work on Pelgrane's battle scenes book. We were very happy when she agreed to creating a floorplan-style based on her work

The Naomi VanDoren's Floorplans style gives you a great selection of floorplan symbols and bitmap textures to create maps in Naomi's clear and beautiful style. The accompanying mapping guide takes you through creating a complete building including the surrounding outdoor area.

The style pack Naomi VanDoren's Floorplans includes:

• 2 example maps (FCW and PNG format)
• 4-page mappping guide
• 1 new drawing style (imperial and metric version)
• 98 new drawing tools
• 214 new symbols in 12 new catalogs
• 21 new bitmap textures
• 1 new effect setting
• 1 new true type font

Style Pack: Realms of Legend

Another classic overland style created by TJ Vandel. It's designed to mesh well with the earlier Scorched Sun the upcoming Dark Fantasy style to create a wide variety of possible combinations.

On its own the Realms of Legend style already contains almost 300 symbols and more than a dozen bitmap textures. The accompanying mappig guide teaches you how to use it.

The style pack Realms of Legend includes:

• 296 new symbols in 7 catalogs
• 36 new drawing tools
• new templates (imperial and metric)
• 14 new bitmap fills
• 1 4-page mapping guide
• 1 example map (PNG and FCW format)
• 1 new effect setting
• 1 new true type font

Style Pack: Temple of Bones

A stand-alone isometric style which also expands Herwin Wielink's style from Perspectives 3.

Focusing on crypts and tombs, TJ Vandel created this spooky set of symbols for the Temple of Bones.

The style pack Temple of Bones includes:

• 1 new drawing style
• 2 new templates (imperial and metric)
• 232 new symbols in 10 symbol catalogs
• 4 new bitmap fills
• 5-page mappping guide
• 2 example maps (FCW and PNG formats)
• 1 new effect setting

Style Pack: Woodcut Maps

A new overland style by our regular contributor TJ Vandel. Designed to be reminiscent of early modern woodcut prints, it contains a wide variety of beautiful symbols.

The style "Woodcut Maps" is a classic overland style, drawing on old black and white imagery to produce beautiful maps. The included 4-page mapping guide takes you through creating a map step-by-step.

The style pack Woodcut Maps includes:

• 1 new drawing style by TJ Vandel
• 237 new symbols in 7 catalogs
• 28 new drawing tools
• 2 new templates (imperial and metric)
• 7 new bitmap fills
• 1 4-page mapping guide
• 1 example map (PNG and FCW format)
• 1 new effect setting
• 1 new Edge Striping effect PNG image

Style and Tutorial Pack: Dark Realms

Another overland style - also created by TJ Vandel. While working perfectly as a standalone style, it also can be used in conjunction with this year's previous overland style Scorching Sun and Realms of Legend to vastly expand your symbol and texture options.

To facilitate combining these drawing styles this pack also contains a tutorial on the topic. It discusses how to combine symbol catalogs, set up new catalog settings, merge bitmap fill styles as well using drawing tools from one style in another.

The style and tutorial pack Dark Realms includes:

• 1 new drawing style by TJ Vandel
• 254 new symbols in 7 catalogs
• 33 new drawing tools
• 2 new templates (imperial and metric)
• 14 new bitmap fills
• 1 6-page mapping guide (tutorial)
• 1 example map (PNG and FCW format)
• 1 new effect setting

Tutorial Pack: Scorching Sun

A strongly-themed overland style by TJ Vandel. The style consists of many desert and desolation-themed symbols, fill styles and drawing tools, allowing you to create maps of harsh environments, devastated worlds and post-apocalyptic wastelands.

It can also be used to supplement other drawing styles in this regard, such as the Mike Schley Overland style from CC3+ or last year's Ancient Realms style by TJ Vandel.

The tutorial pack Scorching Sun includes:

• 1 new drawing style by TJ Vandel
• 150 new symbols in 7 catalogs
• 34 new drawing tools
• 2 new templates (imperial and metric)
• 10 new bitmap fills
• 1 4-page mapping guide
• 1 example map (PNG and FCW format)
• 6 Tutorial maps (FCW format)
• 1 new effect setting
• 1 new bitmap reference file