Cartographer's Annual Vol 11

Name: Cartographer's Annual Vol 11
Brand: ProFantasy Software
SKU: SUB2017
Price: 39.95 GBP
Availability: InStock

£ 39.95

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.

Map Pack: Village Battle Maps

A new collection of highly detailed battle maps, showing a combination of indoor and outdoor floorplans.

Originally created for Pelgrane Press' Battle Scenes series of products, the maps highlight the possibilities of combining multiple map styles and types into one, and the accompanying mapping guide contains the details on how to do just that.

The map pack Village Battle Maps includes:

7-page mappping guide
3 example maps (FCW, JPG and PDF format)
6 bitmap fill style collections
2 template wizards (metric and imperial)

Map and Tutorial Pack: Wizard's Tower

A high detail floorplan of a classic wizard's tower converted from an old CC2 drawing, and an accompanying tutorial that explains how such a conversion is done in CC3+.

Originally drawn by Ralf Schemmann for his own fantasy campaign back in 1999, Malvin's Tower is a classic villainous wizard's abode. Like hundreds of other CC2 drawings available from the Profantasy map library, it can be converted to take advantage of CC3+'s selection of bitmap symbols and texture to create a stunning map.

The map and tutorial pack Wizard's Tower includes:

1 detailed example map of "Malvin's Tower" and classic wizard's tower (FCW and PNG files)
1 7-page tutorial on converting old CC2 maps to CC3+
2 maps of Malvin's Tower in CC2 and basic CC3 styles
6 Tutorial FCW files
1 new font

Style Pack: Black and White Fantasy

A style pack created by Pär Lindström. It is a black and white illustrative map style and works perfectly as an illustration in a book or as a handout for a fantasy game.

The style pack Black and White Fantasy contains all the templates, symbols and tools for you to create beautiful fantasy region maps in Pär Lindström'signature handdrawn style. The included mapping guide shows you how to create these maps step-by-step.

The style pack Black and White includes:

1 new drawing style by Pär Lindström
64 new symbols in 7 catalogs
28 new drawing tools
2 new templates (imperial and metric)
14 new bitmap fills
2 new forest fill settings
1 5-page mapping guide
2 example maps (PNG and FCW format)
1 new effect setting
1 true type font

Style Pack: Cthulu City

A new city style by Pär Lindström, called Cthulhu City, that allows you to build ancient, sprawling metropolises.

Pär designed the style for Pelgrane Press' setting book "Cthulhu City" for the Trail of Cthulhu role-playing game and we took the opportunity to make it into a CC3+ style.

The style pack Cthulhu City includes:

1 new drawing style by Pär Lindström
2 new template wizards (imperial and metric)
24 new drawing tools
51 new symbols in 1 symbol catalog
8 new bitmap textures
1 example map (FCW, PNG and PDF format)
1 new effect setting
1 6-page mapping guide

Style Pack: HighSpace Galaxy

A new style for the HighSpace line of material by Joe Sweeney and Storyweaver Games. Characterized by high quality planet and backdrop art, High Space is a far future space opera setting.

HighSpace Galaxy focuses on galactic and star cluster maps, but also includes new material for the High Space Systems style.

The style pack HighSpace Galaxy includes:

1 new drawing style by Joe Sweeney
58 new symbols in 2 catalogs
12 new drawing tools
4 new templates (landscape and portrait)
38 new bitmap backgrounds
1 5-page mapping guide (tutorial)
2 example maps (PNG and FCW format)
2 new effect settings

Style Pack: Mercator Revisited

Revisiting the very first drawing style ever created for the Cartographer's Annual: The Mercator Historical style. Based on the works of 16th and 17th century cartographers, the style captures the flair of early exploration and the wonders of Terra Incognita - the Unknown Land.

2017's Mercator Revisited provides a whole new set of artwork, while also updating the style and accompanying mapping guide to take full advantage of CC3+. If you own the Annual Vol 1 with the original style, the old symbols will be incorporated in this new style, doubling the amount of available symbols.

The style pack Mercator Revisited includes:

1 reworked drawing style "Mercator Revisited" with 25 drawing tools
2 template wizards (imperial and metric) and 4 templates
2 example maps (in FCW and PNG format)
82 new symbols in 8 catalogs
7 bitmap fills
1 effect settings
1 true type font
1 new master filter
1 7-page mapping guide

Style Pack: Parchment Maps

A new/expanded overland drawing style based on the 2015 "Classic Fantasy" style, with inspirations from the work by Gary Warburton - Dungeon Master Gaz on the ProFantasy forum.

The "Parchment Maps" style works in conjunction with "Classic Fantasy" to double the number of available symbols, extends the color choices and offers more parchments textures for greater variety. It also contains a 4-page mapping guide walking you through the creation of a complete map.

The style pack Parchment Maps includes:

1 new drawing style
37 new drawing tools
2 new templates (imperial and metric)
117 new symbols in 7 catalogs
7 new parchment background
1 4-page mapping guide
1 example map (PNG and FCW format)
1 new effect setting
1 new striping effect image
3 new hatch styles
2 new true type fonts

Style Pack: Wild West

Pär Lindström has created a unique new mapping style, for maps with an Old West look and feel.

Whether you're running a historical campaign or a fantasy-version of the old west (for example using something like Owl Hoot Trail), the Wild West issue allows you to create local and regional maps in a fitting style.

The style pack Wild West includes:

1 new drawing style by Pär Lindström
91 new symbols in 7 catalogs
37 new drawing tools
2 new templates (imperial and metric)
21 new bitmap fills
1 5-page mapping guide
1 example map (PNG and FCW format)
1 new effect setting
1 new true type font

Symbol Pack: Munson's Mines

Introducing a new contributor: Jon C Munson II. Jon has created a set of mining symbols and textures that go splendidly with the Dungeons of Schley style from Symbol Set 4, but can also be used on their own.

The style "Munson's Mines" has more than 70 detailed symbols depicting cave features and mining equipment in varying states of use and repair. The accompnaying mapping guide takes through the creation of a stand-alone (i.e. not using Symbol Set 4) map of a dwarven mine.

The symbol pack Munson's Mines includes:

1 new drawing style by Jon C Munson II
74 new symbols in 11 catalogs
74 new drawing tools
2 new templates (imperial and metric)
20 new bitmap backgrounds
1 4-page mapping guide (tutorial)
1 example map (PNG and FCW format)
1 new effect setting
Integration into SS4 templates and style

Texture Pack: Sue's Parchments

A set of bitmap artwork by Sue Daniel, comprising scroll and parchments backgrounds as well as paper textures.

Sue's parchments is the perfect texture pack to enhance your maps with stylish backgrounds and beautiful bitmap fills.

The texture pack Sue's Parchments includes:

15 parchment backgrounds and 6 paper bitmap textures by Sue Daniel
2 Example maps (FCW and PNG)
1 3-page mapping guide
1 bitmap fill style drawing

Tutorial Pack: Large Exports

A detailed tutorial on doing extra-large bitmap exports from CC3+. Written by Tome and CC3+ manual author Remy Monsen, the tutorial takes an in-depth look at managing exports that go beyond the standard sizes you normally create.

On 22 pages the "Large Exports" tutorial covers creating bitmaps that may be several Gigabytes in size, by leveraging the power of section exports and stitching them together automatically. The first part takes you through the necessary steps in an easy to follow fashion. And if you want to dig deeper into the details, Remy does just that in the later parts of the tutorial, looking closely at the process and the scripts he created.

The tutorial pack Large Exports includes:

1 22-page tutorial pdf
3 scripts for exporting rectangular sections and stitching them together
64-bit ImageMagick software
2 automation files

Tutorial Pack: Marine Maps

Marine Maps lets you create your own sea charts!

Based on modern charts for marine navigation in coastal waters, the style Marine Maps allows you to recreate actual real-world maps, tweak them to your own uses, or create real-looking charts for your fictional coasts.

The tutorial pack Marine Maps includes:

1 new drawing style
33 new drawing tools
2 new templates (imperial and metric)
38 new symbols
1 5-page mapping guide
2 example maps (PNG and FCW format)
1 new effect setting

Tutorial Pack: Random Cities