Joe Sweeney's excellent CC3 tutorial, now up on YouTube. Worth viewing just to listen to Joe's Antipodean commentary. Joe will be putting together promotional videos for CC3 and DD3.

A little teaser image for the October issue of the Cartographer's Annual 2008 .

(Truncated into two parts for LiveJournal.) Harry nearly bucked and ran the other way. The Great Hall was a huge, open room, much bigger than the largest clearing in the Forest . It was lit by...it would be “Lucius”. And lastly the “cognomen”, the name of the bloodline he belongs to, i.e. Malfoy. So there you have it: Draco Lucius Malfoy. status: beta'd by Ayeshah Harvey-Lomas

 (Truncated into two parts for LiveJournal.) Chapter Three: What Happened to the Lapiths Harry found the train ride much more pleasing once Draco Malfoy and his two guards had joined him... Malfonis, m. the name of several families of the gen Malfoy ”.   I will remind people of this in a footnote when/if a genitive of his name shows up. status: beta'd by Ayeshah Harvey-Lomas

Mostly for simonjrogers , this is virtual Windows XP running coherence mode with Profantasy's Campaign Cartographer 3 up

Always keep some spare oil handy. A simple animation produced from screen captures in CC3 by Joe Slayton who has been working on lighting effects and Fog Of War. Expect to see these lighting effects released in the Cartographer's Annual 2008 in the New Year, with examples and instructions and eventually in CC3.

Here's a little preview on next year's Cartographer's Annual. 10 plastic point for the first one to tell me who's map work this style is based on.

I'm working on the next Annual issue, which will be map pack, highlighting floorplans with the new SS2 bitmap artwork. It'll also take a detailed look at using lighting and shadows in CC3. Here's a little sneak peek on my cathedral floorplan so far:

I finally have the pleasure to create Symbol Set 2 example maps with Peter Gifford's gorgeous bitmap art. Here is a piece that's part of my recreation of Peter's original "proof-of-concept" map for CC3/DD3 (which was done in Photoshop). It is scaled down 50% from a 3200x2400px from CC3 - just to give you an idea of the detail of the bitmaps.

...map by any stretch.  Many of the labels are not yet included, and I'm pretty sure I botched some of them.  Time will hopefully allow me to improve it.   Okay, the above are maps I did in CC3.  (Clicking on them should bring you to a larger version, clicking again a larger still version.  Be warned the full versions are over 1 MB in size.) It's actually the same map.   The one on the left...