When we talk about short times and mapping, that still means quite many hours of work. Most of the styles are quick to work with and you can produce a finished map that looks good in a rather short time. The good thing with CC3 is that due to the annuals they release every year, that gives you a new style every month, there is now a vast collection of styles that you can use.
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One of the programs I use the most while mapping is CC3 from Profantasy. Posted in Maps | Tagged Annual, Artrage, DD3, Dungeon, Profantasy | Leave a reply Remaking a style I hope you will enjoy the style now in October. Hopefully those experiences will improve my future maps. I feel that I really had to step outside my comfort zone to make this style, and that I have learned a lot from it. I actually even included a couple of monsters that you can populate your dungeon with. But I think the selection of symbols is more than enough to make it possible to do the map you want. The style includes around 75 unique symbols but as always you cannot get it all in there. Making the style has been great fun and I already want to make more symbols to flesh it out. So if you for example draw a coffin you divide the painting in two pieces, everything you draw on the left side will be repeated on the right side, and this will make the coffin have the correct proportions. Everything you do in one part will be repeated in the others. The tool lets you divide the painting in between 2 and 12 parts. All symbols are made in a program called Artrage that has been a great help while doing the symbols, especially the “Paint symmetry” tool. When you make a style for Profantasy you get a list of things that usually are included, so I started at the top and ticked them off when I had them done. I sent him some of the test maps and he thought it’d be a great idea, so we agreed on me making the style, to be released now in October. Around this time I also talked to Ralf at Profantasy to see if they would be interested in me making a Black and White dungeon style for their annuals. I started to play around with different ideas and made a couple of test maps to see where I could get with this. The maps turned out pretty well (you can see them in the book “Monster” for the Swedish RPG Fantasy!) and doing them kind of gave me the urge to do more. I hadn’t done many before and felt a bit insecure about it but I thought I could give it a try. That is the best way to improve whatever you do to the next step.Įarlier this year, before the summer, I was asked by a Swedish RPG company to do some old school dungeon maps. You have to force yourself to step outside, to do the things you feel insecure about. But staying inside your comfort zone wont make you better in what you do.
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I know what’s looking good and how to accomplish the things I have in mind for the map.
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Most of the maps I do are either overland or city maps and while doing them I’m feeling very safe. We all have our comfort zones in everything we do, and so do I when it comes to mapping.
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Posted in Maps | Tagged Photoshop, Profantasy | Leave a reply Outside my comfort zone
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I will definitely make more free hand maps in the future, because it really is great fun to do them. But that wasn’t the important thing here, the important thing was to have fun and do some mapping. Of course there are always things you can improve but overall I’m quite pleased with the end result, even though I didn’t win. The map itself is supposed to look like a worn pirate’s map that will lead you to the location of the treasure, if you can avoid all the dangers that are plotted out.Įverything is made in Photoshop and I had a great time making the map. I saw the competition as a perfect way of trying out some new brushes that I had acquired, and also a good way of getting some training of making a free hand drawing using my Cintiq. The competition ended in March and the map at the top of this post was my entry. Earlier this year Profantasy ran a competition where you had to create a map of an island, less than three miles wide.