Cartographer's Annual Vol 9

Name: Cartographer's Annual Vol 9
Brand: ProFantasy Software
SKU: SUB2015
Price: 39.95 GBP
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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: Alien Starship

A four-deck starship from the Ashen Stars role-playing game by Pelgrane Press, the Mandible-class Laser vessel

Each deck is rendered in loving detail and exported in a variety of high-resolution formats for quick and easy use in a online or tabletop game. Use CC3 with Cosmographer 3 to view and edit the original FCW drawings.

The map pack Alien Starship includes:

4 new starship deckplans by Ralf Schemmann (FCW, jpg, png and pdf format)
1 7-page sheets & effects guide to the starship

Map Pack: Battle Map Collection

Six highly detailed battle maps created with the techniques described in that issue's mapping guide. All of them have been professionally produced for Pelgrane Press' Battle Scenes source books by Ralf Schemmann and come both in CC3+'s own format and as high-resolution PNG bitmap files.

Raft the tumultuous Razoredge Gorge, defend the walls of Tenrock Hold, and sneak along a forest path to ambush your enemies in their forest camp. Edit and adjust the maps in CC3+ to your own needs. This bonus issue is a free download, you don't need to own the Annual 2015 to use it.

The map pack Battle Map Collection includes:

1 3-page content guide
6 high-detail, large-scale example maps (FCW and PNG formats)

Style Pack: Ancient Realms I

Another splendid overland style for your ancient and mysterious realms. In fact this style by TJ Vandel is so packed with goodness, we had to split it.

This first installment gives you the full base style with all the tools and symbols needed, so you can start making your maps right away. Then we'll be adding the wonderful vignettes that TJ has created to give the maps their mysterious flair.

The style pack Ancient Realms Part I by TJ Vandel includes:

1 new drawing style by TJ Vandel
150 symbols in 6 catalogs
50 new drawing tools
2 new templates (imperial and metric)
30 new bitmap fills
1 4-page mapping guide
1 example map (PNG and FCW format)
2 new effect settings
1 new true type fonts

Style Pack: Ancient Realms II

Expanding on the previous Ancient Realms Style pack by TJ Vandel, adding 120 location icons as well as varicolor versions of the structure symbols to the style

Additionally the included mapping guide teaches you how to make your own location icons from any bitmap files you like. It includes PSD and PNG templates to make this quick and easy.

The style pack Ancient Realms Part II includes:

132 new symbols in 2 catalogs
1 new example map (FCW and PNG format)
1 3-page mapping guide
1 icon symbol templates (PSD and PNG format)

Style Pack: Black and White Towns

We have another of Pär Lindström's beautiful black and white styles for you, this time to draw maps of towns and villages.

The style is very quick and easy to use, but still produces gorgeous maps that are easy on your home printer's ink cartridge.

The style pack Black and White Towns includes:

1 new drawing style
2 template wizards (metric and imperial)
80 new bitmap symbols in 6catalogs
35 new drawing tools
10 new bitmap fills
1 example map (FCW, PNG)
1 4-page mapping guide
1 new effect settings
3 new House styles
1 new Street setting
1 new true type font

Style Pack: City Panoramas

A great new style from our regular contributor TJ Vandel. It emulates the famous city view/maps of 16th-century publishers and engravers Braun and Hogenberg.

The city style "City Panoramas" lets you design and assemble panoramic city and island views from pre-assembled pieces (hills, buildings, etc). The included mapping guides takes you through the simple process step-by-step.

The style pack City Panoramas includes:

1 new drawing style by TJ Vandel
379 new symbols in 7 catalogs
16 new drawing tools
2 new templates (imperial and metric)
5 new bitmap fills
1 4-page mapping guide
1 example map (PNG and FCW format)
1 new effect setting
1 new true type fonts

Style Pack: Classic Fantasy

This style pack goes back to the roots both in terms of CC3 and the maps we create. Many of us fantasy mappers have originally been inspired by the maps we found in fantasy novels, from the Lord of the Rings to the Wheel of Time, A Song of Ice and Fire and so many others.

The Classic Fantasy style gives you the opportunity to draw maps like Professor Tolkien's yourself on a beautiful parchment background (also making great handouts for your players!)

The style pack Classic Fantasy includes:

1 new drawing style by Ralf Schemmann
32 new drawing tools
2 new templates (imperial and metric)
97 new symbols in 6 catalogs
1 new parchment background
1 4-page mapping guide
1 example map (PNG and FCW format)
1 new effect setting
3 new hatch styles
2 new true type fonts

Style Pack: Dracula Dossier

A new collaboration with Profantasy's sister company Pelgrane Press. For their Dracula Dossier campaign we created a floorplan style for the many location maps in the book. Now you can use the same style for your own haunted houses!

The "Dracula Dossier" uses a clear and modern vector style to show all kinds of floorplans, from medieval dungeons to modern apartment complexes. It focuses on clarity and ease of reference and is therefore very well suited for print publication.

The style pack Dracula Dossier includes:

1 new drawing style by Ralf Schemmann
465 symbols in 14 catalogs
47 new drawing tools
2 new templates (imperial and metric)
1 new bitmap fill
1 4-page mapping guide
2 example maps (PNG and FCW format)
2 new effect settings
1 new true type fonts

Style Pack: OSR Dungeon

A style pack created by TJ Vandel. It beautifully captures inked old-school dungeon maps with cross-hatching for filling in the walls.

The style pack OSR Dungeon Maps contains all the templates, symbols and tools for you to create black & white maps in TJ Vandel's style. The included mapping guide shows you how to create dungeon map step-by-step.

The style pack OSR Dungeon includes:

2 new template wizards (imperial and metric)
1 new drawing style with 62 drawing tools
319 new symbols in 11 catalogs
19 new bitmap fill styles
2 Example maps (FCW and PNG)
1 4-page mapping guide
1 new effect setting

Symbol Pack: Starports

Steph McAlea (previously Worthington) is back with a SciFi symbol pack: Starports. Designed to work with either City Designer 3, Cosmographer 3, or on its own, it let's you create beautiful starports or other futuristic and industrial locations.

The Annual includes over a hundred symbols and bitmap fills to make full-featured starport maps, including vehicles and (of course!) space ships. A 4 page mapping guide takes you through the whole creation process.

The symbol pack Starports includes:

114 new bitmap symobls in 4 catalogs
2 new templates (imperial and metric)
31 new drawing tools
15 new bitmap fills
2 exmaple maps (1 JPG and 1 PNG and FCW format)
2 new effect settings
1 4-page mapping guide

Tutorial Pack: Day and Night

An in-depth look at creating differently lighted environments, for example if you want to show a combat encounter area in both daytime and nighttime conditions. Simple sheet effects and lighting entities can transform a plain street scene into a dark and foreboding night encounter.

This pack takes both floorplan and city map examples and teaches you how to add lights and shadows to create different types of lighting.

The tutorial pack Day and Night includes:

3 example maps in both day and nighttime lighting (FCW and PNG)
a 7-page tutorial in PDF format
1 menu addition

Tutorial Pack: Deluxe Battle Maps

A big tutorial pack on creating "Deluxe" battle maps, meaning encounter map drawing on techniques, tools and artwork beyond the immediately available for a default drawing style. Many of these tips, tricks and suggestions derive from the work on Pelgrane Press' Battle Scenes source books.

Topics of the accompanying mapping guide include combining assets from different styles, custom artwork, working with water effects, showing elevation and cliff faces, creating multiple layers in one map, and lighting effects. The Annual issue also comes with 4 large-scale, highly-detailed battle maps showcasing these techniques.

The tutorial pack Deluxe Battle Maps includes:

1 8-page tutorial covering various topics on how to expand your battle map creation
4 high-detail, large-scale example maps (FCW, PDF and PNG formats)
5 bitmap fill collections
2 template wizards (metric and imperial) for CC3+

Tutorial Pack: Local Area Maps

Another beautiful overland style by Pär Lindström. Supremely suited to depicting local areas, the style's whimsical look makes it a wonderful choice for illustrative maps of stories or classical role-playing adventures

More than a hundred lovingly crafted symbols, a few dozen drawing tools and more than twenty new bitmap fills give you everything you need to create your own maps with the charm of Pär's symbols. The included mapping guide teaches you how to do it.

The tutorial pack Local Area Maps includes:

1 new drawing style by Pär Lindström
102 new symbols in 7 catalogs
46 new drawing tools
2 new templates (imperial and metric)
23 new bitmap fills
1 4-page mapping guide
2 example maps (PNG and FCW format)
2 new effect setting
1 new true type fonts

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