This battlemap by Dkarr "was created for an RPGA Adventure during the Dungeons & Dragons Experience (DDXP). This is based on the map that was provided for the adventure COR8-03 Aspirations and served as the throne room for a goblin king." Dkarr even printed the lava out on transparencies which he lit from underneath.
( Images of the map in use behind the cut. )
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An example from one of our beta testers (Robert J Defendi) of a quick City Designer 3 map using Sean Thomas's style. The shadows on the ground don't currently match the roof, but that'll be fixed shortly.
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We are working on CD3, but in the meantime, here is an update on Joe Slayton's lighting filter:
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A sample simple for Cosmographer 3 from Banana Monks.
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The ProFantasy Software forum is now open.
We've been holding out a long time against a forum. Our mail list works so well, and Ralf is always very busy, so it's not been a priority. We are using Vanilla from Lussomo. It's simple, reliable and has lots of useful extensions. My only real concern is that it might affect the excellent community which has grown up around the mail list. Will be watching this social experiment with interest.
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Peter Olsson, who does much of the programming work for ProFantasy has been working on his own Swedish electrical application, and in the course of that developed some user interactivity features which could in theory be incorporated into CC3. Here is a screen shot of what a circle command might look like.
Note that the command prompt is present at the drawing cursor. The interactive window reacts to key strokes, and it could display properties information (for example for a drawing tool). If the cursor moves over it, it disappears. Peter has also worked on some interactive right click features which are object sensitive, which we might be able to incorporate into CD3, given the development time.
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Mike Oliver created this map using the basic tools from CC3 for fantasy writer Victoria Kerrigan. Read how the map was created here.
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Jerome Huguenin, the who has created the layout and art for many Pelgrane books including Trail of Cthulhu, has been working on some proof-of-concept symbols for ProFantasy's Symbol Set 3 for CC3. Here is an export from CC3. There are no doors or windows yet, so there's no way out. Jerome is doing an outlined version of the symbols, too. The original map is from Profane Miracles, a forthcoming Esoterrorists release.
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The excellent Banana Monks are working on artwork for the new version of Cosmographer. Here is a sample of what you'll see.
And some pencils for further artwork: 
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From Pelgrane Press and ProFantasy, courtesy of Jerome!
I'm going to try to get the new Page XX, in particular Mystic Moo up on Christmas Eve.
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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.
( Animated gif behind the cut )
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The latest feature in City Designer 3. You select one (or more) buildings, a number of floors, and it creates floorplans with outlines and floors, all neatly linked back to the main map and to each other.
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This is the first in a regular series featuring maps created using ProFantasy's software. Click on the map to see a larger image.
Map Creator: This map was created by Grimur Fjelsted of Mapventures. He's done some amazing work, featured on his website.
Map Title: Harabar
"A map of the Savage Kingdoms of the North. In my gaming group, we felt we needed a new challenge and decided to explore a new region of our campaign world. It´s a viking setting, based on the early kingdoms of Denmark."
Creation Details: Grimur created this map using CC3 combined with Symbol Set 1: Fantasy Overland. It uses the SS1 Fantasy A style, with symbols created by Sean McDonald. The text is very nicely placed, with frequent use of curved text. The effects are used subtly. If you want to create a map like this, use the New Drawing Wizard, select Overland Maps, then choose SS1 Fantasy A, and use the drawing tools and symbols provided.
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ProFantasy is having a pre-Christmas development frenzy. Peter Olsson is with me from Sweden working hard on the updated House Settings dialog for City Designer 3. To match the new raster art, he's add the option to add symbols to roofs in house settings. Pictures tomorrow. We'll get a couple of other neat features added to CD3 before release, too.
Joe Slayton has been working on light filters for CC3. We are hoping to get fog of war working, although I can't guarantee it. The difficulty is to do this efficiently without introducing 3D. We want shadows to be able to be infinite, or have a fixed length, without having to worry about the height of entities.
Mike Riddle has made some nice additions to CC3, adding an Apply button to the print dialog, and changing the status indicator colours to a clickable colour. He's also fixed the bug where png symbols shifted slightly add cardinal angles, and a nasty group-related bug.
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We had a great Dragonmeet. Well done to Angus, who came through despite illness. ProFantasy did well; there was a brisk trade in Cartographer's Annuals, and Ralf was kept on his toes (or on his bum?) doing CC3 demos. We sold all forty of the Trails of Cthulhu we brought, six before the trade hall was even open, and Jerome was kind enough to draw a picture in every one - a real collectable. We sold a lot of Play Unsafe from the stand, too. It was by far our best Dragonmeet in terms of sales overall.
I had the pleasure of meeting the Yog-Sothoth crowd, although I found Paul of Cthulhu's interview a little disconcerting, purely because it was all "lights, camera, action" rather than a podcast. Steve has his Esoterrorists and Fear Itself demo technique honed, and the Trail of Cthulhu session he ran went well, the GUMSHOE investigative system sitting neatly in the background.
Cubicle 7 announced their sterling license, Doctor Who, which is probably the only property where writers might bid to be allowed to contribute. It's a great coup made possible in part by Fred Hick's extraordinary work on the presentation document they showed to the BBC. It was a pleasure to chat with Fred about IPR matters, and he is gently twisting my arm to pre-release Trail of Cthulhu on IPR with the PDF. Currently, I have cold feet, but I may be persuaded.
The charity auction made over £1500, and the top two items were the forthcoming Dark Heresy from Game Workshop, and Trail of Cthulhu #1 with Jerome's amazing Necronomicon artwork. These items alone raised £200 each. Thank you, generous Dragonmeet punters (and Angus)!
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I'll be at Dragonmeet this year with Ralf ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) uthoroc for ProFantasy Software, and Jérome and Sasha pond823 for Pelgrane Press. Give me a shout out if you are going to be there.
For ProFantasy, we have some advanced copies the Cartographer's Annual. This consists of all of Ralf's work on the subscription site over the year as a single product. It's extremely good way of getting a variety of attractive maps done in a short time. 
fig 1: Ralf's brain in a DVD case
We have 40 advanced, specially printed copies of Trail of Cthulhu which arrived in the nick of time. I had to find the super-secret UPS overlord number to stop them being sent back to the State. gbsteve will be running GUMSHOE demos most of the day. 
fig 2: hah, hah, hah, I've got one and you haven't
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We are finishing up the programming for City Designer 3 in December. We may have room to squeeze in some new features. If you've got any suggestions, post them here.
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Excellent though GenCon Indie is, I think Spiel 2007 would have a case against GenCon for "The Best Four Days in Gaming". It's certainly the biggest, with over 150,000 visitors. A Euro GenCon could fit in a side hall - now that's an idea.
Profantasy has attended for a few years now, and we do about as well there as we do at Origins. It's also a good chance for uthoroc to connect with the large contingent of German CC3 users. If you are there, say hi to Ralf from me, and if you spot Colin slacking off, please let me know. We're in hall 6, stand 39. That's Hall 6 of 12 freaking great halls. Did I say it was big?
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This month's Cartographer's Annual features a cathedral which makes extensive use of effects. As well as the map itself, Ralf has included detailed instructions on how to recreate the effects on your own maps. For more info see thesubscription site.
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