Next week is Spiel-time in Essen.

Meet me at booth 6-705 in hall 6.

Head over to the rpgmaps blog to see some old-school hex maps I've created for the Cartographer's Annual and Cosmographer.

My current work on Cosmogapher 3 yielded this desktop wallpaper ... the map might look familiar to some people, although no names or labels are show.

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For the Cartographer's Annual I'm reproducing another style, this time by Brian Stoll from the Cartographer's Guild forum. You can see the gorgeous map he created over there.

With his permission we're doing a CC3 overland style to match this kind of map. Here's a sneak of the map I'm drawing in CC3:

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I wish I could how off the other map created in this style, but for the moment this will have to do:

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No Sci-Fi mapping package is complete without a way to map planetary surfaces. With the new bitmap styles we are aiming for satellite imagery with digital overlays. Here is a quick example.

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Mapping the three dimensions of a space setting unto a 2d surface has always been problematic. Traveller always skirted the issue by making it's maps two-dimensional and (much later) offering the vague explanation that it's hyperspace travel projected the three-dimensional relations into 2d. I also remember an old 2300AD star map where the size of ( Read more... )

Here is a sample of symbols for the different types of starmaps included with Cosmographer 3:

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I'm currently working hard on our next version of the Cosmographer add-on. Here is an example map done with the new bitmap Deckplan style.

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I've just put up the preview for next months Cartographer's Annual issue. It's a style pack for drawing b&w city, town and village maps, something that was missing a bit from all the styles available in City Designer 3.

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