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 2 Content

• Map Pack: Battle Maps
• Map Pack: City Example
• Style Pack: Heraldic Symbols
• Style Pack: Overland Black & White
• Style Pack: Pete Fenlon
• Style Pack: Shaded Relief Maps
• Style Pack: Star Systems
• Technique Pack: Creating an Interactive Atlas
• Tool Pack: Lighted Dungeons
• Tool Pack: Symbol Catalogs
• Tool Pack: The Map Border
• Tutorial Pack: Overland Mapping

Map Pack: Battle Maps

Miniatures and battle maps have gained new heights of popularity at the gaming table. This map pack gives you several examples, templates and detailed instructions how to create your own with the Dungeon Designer add-on.

Among other things we take a close look at how to best set up your maps for printing, how to set the correct scale, and what you can do if your printer can't handle the size of paper you need.

The map pack Battle Maps includes:

• 3 example maps (with pdf and png exports included)
• 1 new dungeon template wizard
• 3 new dungeon templates
• 4 new bitmap fills
• 1 new effect setting
• 8 new "Dungeon DD3" style drawing tools
• 18 new symbols in one new symbol catalog
• 1 4-page mapping guide

Map Pack: City Example

A detailed example map created with the upcoming City Designer 3 add-on. The full-featured map contains a small sample of CD3 symbols and shows the effect of the new automated roof-shading and house command features.

It also contains a number of new bitmaps fills, new drawing tools , detailed sheet effect guide and a short description of the depicted city.

The map pack CD3 Example City includes:

• 1 Example City Map "Gwynnin"
• 1 3-page pdf Sheet and Effects guide
• 1 3-page pdf City Description
• 4 CD3 Example Symbols
• 12 CD3 Example Bitmap fills
• 1 new drawing style
• 25 new drawing tools
• 1 new template wizard
• 1 new template

Style Pack: Heraldic Symbols

A look at creating heraldic shields and devices to enhance your fantasy campaigns or even illustrate your family history. This style pack includes the amazing heraldry artwork of Master Mapper Lonny Eckert and takes full advantage of CC3's features. updated to take full advantage of CC3's new features.

In addition to dozens of symbols, you get new templates, drawing tools, true type fonts, and a mapping guide to start you on creating your own heraldry. Take a look at the gallery for some larger examples.

The style pack Symbol Catalogs includes:

• 1 3-page pdf Mapping Guide
• 3 example drawings
• 266 symbols (5 catalogs)
• 1 new drawing style
• 9 new drawing tools
• 1 new true type font
• 1 new template wizard
• 3 new templates

Style Pack: Overland Black & White

A new overland mapping style. It uses a black and white color scheme which makes it perfect for printed maps, player handouts - you can even print it on parchment paper - or simply to conserve that precious ink or toner.

With a pure vector mapping style, the Overland B&W maps are quick to draw, display in a split-second and are easy to manipulate. They also match up closely with the John Speed city map style from the Cartographer's Annual Vol. 1, if you want to create a black and white map collection or atlas.

The style pack Overland Black & White includes:

• 2 example maps (with pdf and png exports included)
• 1 new drawing style including 30 drawing tools
• 1 new overland template wizard
• 2 new overland templates
• 1 new effect setting
• 2 new hatch styles
• 80 new symbols spread over 6 symbol catalogs
• 1 3-page mapping guide

Style Pack: Pete Fenlon

A Pete Fenlon style pack. Among role-players Pete Fenlon is famous for the maps he produced for Iron Crown Enterprise's Middle-Earth Role-Playing campaign and adventure modules. Many of us gaming cartographers have been inspired by his extremely detailed and beautiful cartography.

The Pete Fenlon style pack lets you create maps reminiscent of his classic RPG maps. And of course it comes with a mapping guide to teach you drawing the maps step by step.

The style pack Pete Fenlon includes:

• 1 4-page pdf Mapping Guide
• 2 example maps
• 108 symbols (split over 9 catalogs)
• 39 drawing tools
• 2 new forest drawing settings
• 1 new bitmap
• 2 effect settings
• 1 template wizard
• 1 true type font
• 1 Pete Fenlon master filter and 7 symbol settings

Style Pack: Shaded Relief Maps

The tools to create a type of map that has previously been difficult to create with CC3: shaded relief maps. These maps use shadows and shading to depict changes in elevation and thereby give a good visual impression of hills or mountains.

New templates, drawing tools, bitmap fills and textures allow you to create your own shaded relief maps.

The style pack Shaded Relief Maps includes:

• 2 example maps (with png exports included)
• 2 new template wizards
• 1 new symbol catalog including 11 new symbols
• 6 new bitmap fills
• 6 new filter textures
• 1 new drawing style
• 30 new drawing tools
• 1 new effect setting
• 1 3-page mapping guide

Style Pack: Star Systems

Ever wanted to have a beautiful size comparison of a star system's planetary bodies? Do you need a chart showing the orbits of a gas giant and its moons? This style pack comes with the artwork, tools and templates to create beautiful system maps for science fiction games.

Several different templates, dozens of planet and star symbols and gorgeous bitmap artwork combine to let you create artistic and informational maps. And of course the mandatory mapping guide explains how to put it all together.

The style pack Star Systems includes:

• 3 example maps (with pdf and png exports included)
• 2 new cosmographer template wizards
• 4 new cosmographer templates
• 6 new bitmap fills
• 2 new bitmap backgrounds
• 3 new effect settings
• 110 new bitmap symbols in three catalogs
• 1 new drawing style
• 8 new drawing tools
• 1 3-page mapping guide

Technique Pack: Creating an Interactive Atlas

A look at something a little different: how to connect all your different maps together to create a virtual atlas.

At Profantasy we use the option to link maps to each other in a number of products, including the Forgotten Realms Interactive Atlas^TM, the World War II Atlas, and the Source Maps series. We'll show you how to setup some of the special linking that has been used in those.

Besides the detailed mapping guide, this technique pack contains a number of tools for linking maps (menus, macros, drawing tools, etc.) and a mini-collection of linked maps consisting of last months's example city and three new maps (1 overland, 2 floorplans).

The technique pack Creating An Interactive Atlas includes:

• 1 Example Regional Map "Gwynneth"
• 1 Example City Map "Gwynnin" (edited version of last month's city map)
• 2 Example Floorplans
• 1 5-page pdf Mapping Guide
• 2 drawing tools
• 1 CC3 menu addition
• 12 new or updated CC3 macros
• 8 bitmap menu icons

Tool Pack: Lighted Dungeons

A new tool in the Dungeon mapper's arsenal: Dynamic lights and shadows to illuminate maps in new and unforeseen ways. This includes tools to define viewpoints and shadow-casting obstructions that will enable you to create fog-of-war effects.

In addition to new lighting commands, specially set up templates and example maps, the tool pack contains DD3 symbols with included light sources. Just put a torch on a wall, turn on sheet effects, and you'll see the flickering torch-light illuminate corridors and rooms and cast shadows across the floor. And of course a mapping guide explains everything in detail.

The tool pack Lighted Dungeons includes:

• 1 example map (with pdf and png exports included)
• 1 new dungeon template wizard
• 1 new effect settings
• 1 new symbol catalog consisting of new 37 symbols including DD3 bitmaps and light entities
• 1 4-page mapping guide
• 1 new version of Effects.dll including 6 new light sources commands (ADDLIGHT, ADDLIGHTM, LIGHTSHOW, LIGHTHIDE, LIGHTTOG, LIGHTS)
• 2 new sheet effects ("Wall Shadow, Point Light Setp" and "Wall Shadow, Point Light Finalize")
• 1 new menu entry "Lights"

Tool Pack: Symbol Catalogs

A detailed look at creating new symbols for Campaign Cartographer, Dungeon Designer and City Designer using Pete Fenlon style symbols as an example. This way you can extend the style almost without limits.

To make creating symbols quick and easy, the style pack provides specialized templates and drawing tools for the task: A whole drawing style just to create symbols! The pdf guide to creating symbols covers many details, among them setting up your symbols for different styles of maps, control points, varicolor, symbol attributes, and splitting symbols across sheets.

The tool pack Symbol Catalogs includes:

• 1 7-page pdf Mapping Guide
• 24 example symbols
• 1 new drawing style
• 30 new drawing tools
• 1 new forest drawing settings
• 3 new template wizards
• 4 new templates
• 3 new bitmaps

Tool Pack: The Map Border

The map border defines the extents of the drawings we create and serves as ornamentation, providing a technical reference object for many of Campaign Cartographer's tools. Understanding these functions is a key to making full use of CC3's powerful features and therefore we will take a detailed tour along the border.

New templates, drawing tools, symbols for your own borders and a detailed mapping guide put the functions of the map border at your fingertips.

The tool pack The Map Border includes:

• 3 example maps (with png exports included)
• 3 new template wizards
• 1 new symbol catalog including 26 new symbols
• 5 new default drawing tools
• 3 new effect settings
• 1 4-page mapping guide

Tutorial Pack: Overland Mapping

A special treat for beginning and intermediate users of Campaign Cartographer 3: An in-depth video tutorial by Joseph Sweeney.

Joseph takes you step-by-step through the creation of a CC3 overland map with special emphasis on using sheets and sheet effects to make your mapping easier, and give your creations that certain artistic flair.

The tutorial pack CC3 Overland Mapping includes:

• More than 70 minutes of video tutorial with audio commentary
• 2 Example Maps
• 2 Effect Settings