as of now, CC3 is mainly for use with older addons and symbol sets that haven't yet been made compatible with CC3+, and at present, I believe only symbol sets and the various annuals from before CC3+'s release have yet to be updated for CC3+. Cosmographer is more for sci-fi stuff like starship deckplans, and the rest is mostly at your discretion (you can completely ignore Character Artist, it deals with characters).ġ Any new purchases of CC3 will include CC3+ for free. City Designer includes tools that help quickly populate a town map with buildings, while Dungeon Designer has some tools for indoor maps. Servers now can start matches while having players download the map from the repo.
With regards to the Addons (City Designer, Dungeon Designer, etc.), those are useful for certain types of maps. Today we are happy to bring you Project Cartographers v0.6 update which includes numerous fixes and additions such as the long awaited ranking system Listed below will be patch notes and details. If you have absolutely zero artistic ability (which I personally doubt), CC3+ won't help you. You should at least be able to draw out a rough outline of the map for reference purposes (so that you know the general shape of the landmasses or where, generally, things should be in relation to each other and the map edges). Joe Sweeney has actually started redoing his tutorials for CC3 to use CC3+, although the bulk of the techniques transfer over from CC3 to CC3+ with no significant changes.Īs to whether or not it'll help you in particular, that depends on how much time you're willing to put into the maps. There is a learning curve to it, as with any CAD software (yes, CC3+ 1 should be treated as a CAD software as opposed to a paint-like program, such as Paint.NET, Gimp, etc.), so you will need to get a bit accustomed to using it.