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 3 Content

• Map Pack: Sailing Ships
• Style Pack: Fantasy Cities
• Style Pack: Fantasy Realms
• Style Pack: Fantasy Worlds
• Style Pack: Modern Atlas
• Style Pack: Napoleonic Battle Maps
• Style Pack: Side Views and Cross-sections
• Style Pack: Strip Maps
• Symbol Pack: Military Units
• Tool Pack: Battle Tiles
• Tool Pack: Macros in CC3
• Tool Pack: Ornamentation
• Tutorial Pack: Printing and Exporting

Map Pack: Sailing Ships

A detailed multi-deck plan of a sailing ship plus drawing tools and templates to draw your own. Fine-tuned sheet effects make the deckplan come alive and create maps useable both for reference and as a battlemat.

The accompanying, detailed description contains NPCs and adventure hooks for use in your own sea-going campaign. Yoho, and bottle of rum!

For the map pack "Sailing Ship" you need Dungeon Designer 3 installed to see the maps in native CC3 format and use the accompanying templates. If you do not own DD3, you can still use the maps in pdf and or format, as well as the adventure information.

The map pack Sailing Ship includes:

• 4 detailed deckplans and a sideview of the ship (png and pdf exports included)
• 1 3-page pdf Sheet and Effects Guide
• 1 5-page pdf Ship Description
• 1 new template wizard
• 1 new template
• 73 new drawing tools
• 1 new symbol catalog containing 7 new symbols
• 8 new bitmap fill styles
• 2 new effect settings

Style Pack: Fantasy Cities

A beautiful fantasy city style that is suitable to both small and large-scale city maps. The style makes use of templates, drawing tools, symbols and sheet effects to make mapping a city as easy as possible, even if you do not own City Designer 3.

If you do own City Designer 3, the style will put even more tools at your disposal ranging from custom house styles to a variety of random street settings.

The style pack Fantasy City includes:

• 1 3-page pdf mapping guide
• 2 example maps (including png exports
• 1 new template wizard
• 1 new drawing style
• 45 new drawing tools
• 3 new catalogs including 62 new symbols
• 4 new CD3 house settings
• 6 new CD3 street settings
• 2 effect settings
• 3 new filter textures

Style Pack: Fantasy Realms

The "Fantasy Realms" style takes one of master mapper Allyn Bowker's classic maps and turns it into an amazing style for your own use.

In the accompanying mapping guide Allyn takes through a detailed tour on how to use the style to create your own unique and beautiful maps with it.

The style pack Fantasy Realms includes:

• 1 pdf Mapping Guide
• 1 new drawing style
• 1 new template wizard
• 66 new drawing tools
• 32 new bitmap fills
• 1 new effect setting
• 35 new symbols in 4 symbol catalogs

Style Pack: Fantasy Worlds

A beautiful overland mapping style. The bitmap artwork was created by Swedish cartographer Pär Lindström and has been faithfully translated into CC3 to let you draw your own maps in his style.

The style lends itself extremely well to large-scale overland maps, i.e. whole continents and worlds. The accompanying mapping guide takes you through the process of creating such maps.

The style pack Fantasy Worlds includes:

• 1 new overland drawing style
• 1 four page mapping guide
• 2 example maps including pdf and png exports
• 1 new template wizard
• 89 new symbols contained in 7 new symbol catalogs
• 58 new drawing tools
• 9 new bitmap fills
• 3 new effect settings
• 1 new master filter and set of catalog settings

Style Pack: Modern Atlas

A new overland mapping style, recreating the crisp, clean and informative graphics of modern atlases. Topographic information is displayed though the use of colored contours, rivers are clearly mapped and text labels are added with an eye to excellent readability.

If you own Fractal Terrains Pro, the October Annual will take you through the process of exporting a FT map into the new style, providing the necessary color schemes and export settings. Of course the accompanying mapping guide will show you how to create such maps with or without FT Pro.

The style pack Modern Atlas includes:

• 1 new drawing style
• 30 new drawing tools
• 12 new symbols in 1 catalog
• 2 new template wizards
• 4 new templates
• 4 example maps, including an FT map file
• 1 4-page mapping guide
• 1 FT Pro color scheme
• 1 FT Pro export setting
• 1 CC2 to CC3 conversion setting for converting FT exports

Style Pack: Napoleonic Battle Maps

A new style to create local area battle maps. It emulates classic depictions of the battles fought in the Napoleonic wars of the late 18th and early 19th century.

As usual the style comes with a mapping guide showing you how to utilize the style for maximum effect and includes new symbols, bitmaps, drawing tools and templates.

The style pack Napoleonic Battle Maps includes:

• 1 new drawing style
• 1 new template wizard and 4 templates
• 2 example maps including png and pdf exports.
• 37 new drawing tools
• 29 new symbols
• 5 new bitmap fills
• 4 new hatch styles
• 1 new effect setting
• 1 4-page mapping guide

Style Pack: Side Views and Cross-sections

Tools and guides to create side views and cross-section maps for buildings, creating new beautiful and informative views of your gaming sites. The elaborate mapping guide takes you step-by-step through the creation process of such maps, making use of clever and convenient macros wherever possible to speed up the drawing process.

Created by ProFantasy community member Joachim de Ravenbel, the new style is both a convenient tool for users interested in this type of maps, as well as an exploration of CC3's more powerful CAD commands and macro capabilities.

The style pack Side Views and Cross-sections includes:

• 1 new template
• 2 elaborate example maps
• 34 step-by-step tutorial maps
• 16 new macros
• 6 new symbols in one catalog
• an 11-page mapping guide
• a 5-page description of the example Magician's Tower
• a 3-page guide to the included macros

Style Pack: Strip Maps

Allyn Bowker brings you the next beautiful mapping style: antique strip maps. Usually created to to chart roads and journeys, they are a perfect vehicle to convey a sense of travel and adventure for your players.

The style lends itself extremely well to creating handouts for your players, containing hints for the adventure, fore-shadowing for encounters on the road, and similar things. The accompanying mapping guide takes you through the process of creating such maps.

The style pack Strip Maps includes:

• 2 example maps
• 1 5-page mapping guide
• 1 new template
• 20 new drawing tools
• 38 symbols in 5 new symbol catalogs

Symbol Pack: Military Units

A pack of symbols and tools for creating military unit symbols following the standard modern NATO/US symbology. The symbols can be used to create strategic and tactical maps as well as organizational diagrams of military organizations.

Beyond the specific symbols, this pack looks at creating symbol catalogs and many of the lesser used symbol options like attributes, exploding symbols on placement, etc.

The symbol pack Military Units includes:

• 2 new templates
• ca. 120 new symbols in 4 catalogs
• 2 example maps and 1 example diagram
• 1 4-page mapping guide

Tool Pack: Battle Tiles

As a special issue, Joseph Sweeney (of CC3 video tutorial fame) created this tool pack to quickly and easily create geomorphic Battles Tiles. And of course he teaches you how to use it with his great video tutorials!

The special issue bundles the templates and tools into one convenient style pack and comes with a number of pre-drawn tiles. A short mapping guide is included for those who want to to dive in quicker than by watching the video tutorials.

The tool pack Battle Tiles includes:

• 1 new template wizard
• 2 new fixed templates
• 3 video tutorials on the basics of creating battle tiles (18 minutes total)
• 3 example tiles
• 1 set of 7 battle tiles "Crypt of Undying Evil"
• 1 set of 13 expandable room and corridor tiles
• 1 set of 13 basic pre-drawn battle tiles
• 1 4-page mapping guide
• Advanced video tutorials

Tool Pack: Macros in CC3

An in-depth look at the macro capabilities of CC3. In the mapping guide Joachim de Ravenbel takes you through the use of two very powerful macros, one to create realistic-looking mountain ranges and the other to scatter symbols across a selected area. In addition the 19-page macro companion shows you how to modify macros for your own needs and how to write your very own from scratch.

Joachim is an experienced user of the Campaign Cartographer 3 software suite. So if you have any questions concerning the September Annual issue, post them on the forum!

The tool pack Macros in CC3 includes:

• 2 powerful and user-friendly macros for creating mountain ranges and scattered symbol areas
• 1 8-page mapping guide on the RALONG and SCATTR macros
• 1 19-page companion guide on how to modify and create macros
• 15 example maps including intermediate steps for following the mapping guide and companion
• 1 new true type font
• 7 pre-assembled collections of symbols for use in different macro styles

Tool Pack: Ornamentation

Do you need some nice ornamentation for your maps? You found some beautiful illumination fonts and want to use them with the same ease and precision as CC3 symbols? Look no further. Master mapper Allyn Bowker tells you how to do import clipart and symbol fonts into CC3 as symbol catalogs.

The application possibilities of this method are boundless. Many symbol fonts are available on the web, from highly ornamented decorative letters to science fiction symbols. All these can be made into CC3 vector symbols for use in your own maps.

The tool pack Ornamentation includes:

• 1 example map, 1 example catalog thumbnail file
• 1 4-page mapping guide
• 1 new template
• 2 example symbol catalogs containing a total of 286 symbols
• 5 TrueType Fonts

Tutorial Pack: Printing and Exporting

A close look at getting your finished CC3 maps out to the world to enjoy. Be it as a printed poster, a tabletop battlemap, or a bitmap export to display on the web, the "Printing and Exporting Maps" tutorial covers it all.

The tutorial gives special consideration to using virtual pdf printers. These give you a lot of control and flexibility when handling exports and printing from CC3.

The tutorial pack Printing and Exporting includes:

• 1 8-page in depth tutorial on printing and exporting CC3 maps
• 3 large-scale example maps, ready to experiment with
• 7 example exports and pdf prints
• 1 list of available, free-to-use pdf printers