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ItвЂ™s a daunting task when you think about it, but itвЂ™s something I want to do for the point of my story. IвЂ™m trying to map out a whole continent something along the lines of mapping out the tip of the Aleutian Islands to the Straits of Magellan.

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Watching the video for how to make a map in Campaign Cartographer, the guy used his whole screen to map out a pirate island, an island that was like 300 miles in diameter.

IвЂ™ve been debating getting these programs to see if I can make a map for the world in my story, but I still have questions about the use of these programs in the efforts of creating Verdania and the other continents of my world. I was referred to Campaign Cartographer 3, and through watching tutorials on such a program, also looked into Fractal Terrains. I have also been looking around for a program to help me make a map for the world in this story. One of which was my purchasing Diablo III when it came out. I spent a few days after posting chapter 17 debating what to include in a new chapter 18, but got sidetracked by a few things. I donвЂ™t wish to make this jump just yet, so a new chapter 18 will be written in time, however that is on hold for now.

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If I was starting again I probably would start with Fractal Mapper or Autorealm but I have put so much effort into learning to use it I am loath to convert.Дo many people use these other pieces of software much and how much easier/harder are they.My original chapter written for what would now be chapter 18 (since IвЂ™ve added in some chapters amidst posting the story as it was written back in November) takes place four years from the end of chapter 17. I grant that this is not always possible but it should be for common operations.Дespite all this I still use CC3 regualrly so I think it is worth using but I think it could be so improved (and should have been in this addition). The need to constantly go to the toolbars and menus instead of just being able to select and decide with the mouse. This example also brings up another problem I have. You can get use to this inversion but nearly every other piece of software does these things the other way round and it is how people think. First you decided what you want to do (say rotate ) then you decide what entity to do it to (say the blue square). With most software, the way it would work is, I select an operation (left mouse button on the entitiy ) then select what I want to happen to the entity, (right mouse button and select from contexxt menu). The most irritating thing about the interface is the way operations are performed on entities. For example in CC2&3 you have two properties dialogs and what inevitably happens is that you often chose. It frustrated me enough to walk away from the application for a while.ДЄdmitted that there are certain difficulties in using CAD but I have used CAD packages but most are easier to use than CC2&3. It could be some buffer I have missed or just a limitation of the software.

I approached it a number of different ways, cutting down on the number of clicks and every attempt resulted in the same closing off of the landmass well before I was completed with creating the primary continent. The landmass tool has an upper level limit upon the number of individual clicks on can make before it just closes off the landmass.

This was imported into CC3 and I used the landmass tool to start 'tracing' out the primary continent.

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I exported the full gamut of maps from that, so I could see the weather, height of land, depth of sea and many other aspects of a full world that Fractal Terrains kicks out.

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I created a Fractal Terrain image that kind of resembled my hand drawn map, plus what the rest of the world mostly resembles. There's also one apparent shortcoming with the software. I haven't figured out how to do that yet, if it's even possible. I was really hoping that it would be able to import a BMP, TIFF or other Image File from a scanned copy of an old hand drawn map and then use that as a base layer upon which I could draw out the map in CC. I haven't had time to seriously hammer away with the application, like I intend to. It's a CAD System and not entirely intuitive, just like the previous releases.

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