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 4 Content

• Style Pack: Black and White Cities
• Style Pack: Black and White Dungeon Maps
• Style Pack: Fantasy Illustrations
• Style Pack: Landform Maps
• Style Pack: Modern Political
• Style Pack: Overland Hex Map
• Symbol Pack: Dungeon Geomorphs
• Tool Pack: Abstract Maps and Charts
• Tool Pack: Castle Walls
• Tool Pack: Shortcuts
• Tutorial Packs: City Roofs and Frills
• Tutorial and Style Pack: Photoshop Brushes

Style Pack: Black and White Cities

A black and white style pack for City Designer 3 (also useable without City Designer).

New symbols, drawing tools, templates and a full mapping guide make it possible to draw beautiful black and white city maps.

The style pack Black and White Cities includes:

• 1 new drawing style
• 1 new template wizard
• 227 new symbol in 2 catalogs
• 27 new drawing tools
• 10 new house and street settings
• 5 new hatch styles
• 1 new effect setting
• 2 example maps
• 1 3-page mapping guide
• 1 new true type font

Style Pack: Black and White Dungeon Maps

A new dungeon drawing style that can be used with or without Dungeon Designer 3. The black and white style is very well-suited to printing and publication.

The included sheet and effects guide lists the various sheets used in the template and explains the purpose of the effects used. The issue contains over 500 vector symbols reworked from existing Dungeon Designer 3 symbols to match the new drawing style.

The style pack Black and White Dungeon Maps includes:

• 1 new template wizard
• 1 new drawing style
• 566 new and reworked dungeon symbols in 14 catalogs
• 51 new drawing tools
• 1 3-page sheets and effects guide
• 2 example maps (FCW and PNG)
• 1 new master filter setting
• 1 new effects setting

Style Pack: Fantasy Illustrations

This style pack goes back to the roots fantasy of map-making: Using them to illustrate print publications. The beautiful black and white style was created by fantasy illustrator Jerôme Huguenin and provides a way to create superbly printable and clear overland maps.

Jerôme Huguenin is known for his gorgeous covers and interior artwork for Pelgrane Press' GUMSHOE line, Le 7éme Cercle and other rpg publishers. You will find his maps in the Devastra and Yggdrasil products published by Le 7éme Cercle.

The style pack Fantasy Illustrations includes:

• 1 new drawing style
• 1 new template wizard
• 2 example maps including png exports
• 29 new drawing tools
• 37 new symbols in 4 new symbol catalogs
• 1 new effect setting
• 3 new forest fill settings
• 1 new parchment filter image
• 1 4-page mapping guide

Style Pack: Landform Maps

A new and very special overland map style: physiographic landform maps. Inspired by the work of renowned cartographer Erwin Raisz, they provide a bird's eye view of the actual terrain of the depicted area.

The Landforms style is an advanced drawing style for CC3, creating very much handdrawn looking maps, but requiring some patience and care in application. The results are more than worth it.

The style pack Landform Maps includes:

• 1 new drawing style
• 1 new template wizard
• 480 new symbols in 5 symbol catalogs
• 75 new drawing tools
• 1 new effect setting
• 2 example maps (FCW and PNG)
• 1 4-page mapping guide
• 1 new true type font

Style Pack: Modern Political

A modern overland drawing style, focused on political information. It is based on the excellent mapping work of Brian Stoll from the Cartographer's Guild forum. Brian's amazing style shows a wealth of detail while staying supremely readable and is very pleasing to the eye. The accompanying mapping guide takes you step-by-step through the creation of such a gorgeous map by yourself.

The style pack Modern Political includes:

• 1 new drawing style
• 1 new template wizard
• 25 new symbols in 6 catalogs
• 58 new drawing tools
• 5 new bitmap fills
• 1 new effect setting
• 1 new export setting
• 2 example maps
• 1 5-page mapping guide

Style Pack: Overland Hex Map

An Overland Hex mapping style reminiscent of old rpg publications. The style is very easy to use and still creates maps in a unique and beautiful look. The accompanying mapping guide will not only teach you how to use this style but also hex symbols in general.

The style pack Overland Hex Maps includes:

• 1 new drawing style
• 1 new template wizard
• 48 new symbols in 7 catalogs
• 12 new drawing tools
• 1 new effect setting
• 2 example maps
• 1 4-page mapping guide

Symbol Pack: Dungeon Geomorphs

A symbol pack featuring new Dungeon Geomorph symbol catalogs for very quickly creating dungeon layouts.

The included mapping guide explains in detail how to use the interlocking geomorph symbols, how to customize them and how to create your own.

The symbol pack Dungeon Geomorphs includes:

• 3 new template wizards
• 3 catalog template files
• 6 new Geomorph catalogs containing 396 new symbols
• 2 example maps
• 1 4-page mapping guide
• 1 new effect setting

Tool Pack: Abstract Maps and Charts

A tool pack for for drawing all kinds of abstract graphics, from route maps to mindmaps and flowcharts.

Using a subway route map (like the famous London Underground tube map) as an example, the accompanying mapping guide teaches you how to utilize CC3's versatile sheets, layers, drawing tools and symbols to create any kind of graphical charts.

The tool pack Abstract Maps and Charts includes:

• 2 new drawing styles
• 2 new template wizards
• 20 new symbols in 2 catalogs
• 24 new drawing tools
• 1 new effect setting
• 2 example maps
• 1 4-page mapping guide

Tool Pack: Castle Walls

A complete new set of drawing commands, programmed by CC3 community member Joachim de Ravenbel. They make creating complex wall shapes - among other things needed for authentic-looking medieval castle floorplans - a snap.

The accompanying tutorial takes you through creating a complex castle layout, showing off how the different commands interact and allow you to draw beautiful layouts in a fraction of the time it needed before.

The tool pack Castle Walls includes:

• 1 new dll with 23 new commands
• 1 new template wizard
• 1 new pre-defined template
• 1 7-page mapping guide
• 1 example map (FCW and PNG)
• 1 menu extension (dungeon.mnu)
• 13 new button icons

Tool Pack: Shortcuts

A tool pack for creating new mapping shortcuts and making best use of the existing ones.

The included mapping guide takes you from using the existing keyboard shortcuts, through creating your own custom ones, to modifying the existing elaborate tools like drawing tools and catalog settings.

The tool pack Shortcuts includes:

• 1 6-page mapping guide
• 10 example drawing tools, catalog settings and modified templates
• 1 macro file with example shortcuts

Tutorial Packs: City Roofs and Frills

A detailed mapping guide on drawing city roofs and roof frills, example symbols and a new basic city template and style useable without City Designer 3.

The mapping guide takes through the important City Designer commands for creating buildings in your city and offers a variety of options on how to individualize houses once they have been placed. Even without City Designer 3 you can make use of a large part of the included material.

The tutorial pack City Roofs and Frills includes:

• 1 new template wizard (basic city for CC3)
• 1 new drawing style (basic city for CC3)
• 1 basic city symbol catalog with 100 symbols
• 1 new frills symbol catalog with 9 symbols
• 1 5-page mapping guide
• 1 example map (FCW and PNG)

Tutorial and Style Pack: Photoshop Brushes

A new overland style created with the help of freely available Photoshop brushes of mountains and hills, and the tutorial of how to convert any such brushes available on the web into symbols and catalogs for CC3.

The overland style is based on a map by fantasy cartographer Robert Altbauer and contains a large number of hill and mountain symbols drawn from free Photoshop brushes posted by the good folks on the Cartographer's Guild.

The tutorial and style pack Photoshop Brushes includes:

• 1 new drawing style
• 1 new template wizard
• 186 new symbols in 5 symbol catalogs
• 40 new drawing tools
• 1 new effect setting
• 1 example map (FCW and PNG)
• 1 new parchment background
• 1 new filter texture
• 1 4-page tutorial