Ethran: Merelan City

[Katto]

Thanks for the answer Mouse.
I've waited for minutes (not seconds) to get a feedback from the program and most of the times it crashed (of course with actual hardware by this time). I will give the new version a try. Thanks.

[Mouse]

You're welcome

Depending on how long ago you last tried CC3, you may be pleasantly surprised by the sheer amount of extra graphics you can download and use in CC3+ nowadays (all free) - the Vintyri Cartographic Collection, and Bogies Mapping Objects are both available as separate downloads. On top of that, any png image can be turned into a symbol.

[Mark Oliva]

is CC3+ much more superior concerning speed than CC3? I've worked with around 50 layers on a city map and when turning on the effects it was a PITA.

Gruß Gott nach Dortmund!

CC3+ is much faster than CC3, but it still is not a fast program. It's slow compared to The GIMP or Fractal Mapper 8 and faster than Dundjinni if DJ is working with large objects. Based upon your descriptions of your past experiences, I would guess that CC3+ will irritate you a lot less than CC3 when it comes to speed but that it probably still will irritate you now and then.

Servus aus Middlfranggn!

[Mouse]

Its all relative Mark. My answer was an honest one for the question that was asked - the difference between CC3 and CC3+. Yes, it does take 5 seconds to react to zoom, but I have yet to hear of a CC3/CC3+ map that uses quite as many Sheets and Effects as I do with MC - a situation I ended up with because of the 7 sets of 5 sheets I use to generate each tier of the island, before anything else like the water, and the relief shading is even considered.

Besdies I really like what I'm managing to do with CC3+ (I'm only a 'reasonable' artist and have only ever sold one painting in my entire 50 years of life), Right now, I'm trying to finish the first of 5 novels, and can't afford the time to learn how to use yet another software package. I also already have all the conflicting mental instruction sets from at least 6 very divergent packages floating around in my head. It sometimes cause errors when working in just one of them when I'm very tired - Bryce, Vue, Blender, Truspace, CorelDraw, CorelPaint, Fractal Terrains 3, CC3, CC3+... etc etc! I actually caught myself trying to rotate this 2D scene as you would a 3D Blender world the other night. Time to go to bed! LOL

I think CC3+ does a really good job, considering it only uses half my very averge laptop's processing power.

[Mark Oliva]

Its all relative Mark.

Hmmm. I didn't think I was disagreeing with you, just adding my own observations.

[Mouse]

And I didn't realise that what I said could be interpreted that way. I'm sorry

Personally I blame biker boy downstairs from me, who doesn't see why he shouldn't wake the entire block of flats every morning at 5 am, and the fact that I'm a night owl; working best after 10 pm. Those two things mean I average about 3-4 hours sleep a night.

In other words - I probably misinterpreted what you said, and then babbled on in the wrong direction

Again - I'm sorry.

[Akae]

Really great work! and thank for the step by step!

[Mouse]

Thank you Akae

Are you going to start a few new threads in the "Finished Maps" forum? It would be a shame for no one to be able to give you quite a lot of justly deserved praise (and rep - those green bars we have below our names) for all the extraordinarily beautiful work I have seen you upload to your albums this morning

EDIT: Please do not worry about your English. If I can understand it, then anyone can, and you will find that many other members are bi, tri, or even multi-lingual, so if you wanted to you could carry on at least part of a conversation in French, or German (as just two examples) if you so wished

[Akae]

You are amazing Mouse!!! Thanks!!!

[Mouse]

Heeey. I haven't done anything! What did I do? Just said a few things.

Your maps are what did it.

Happy mapping, Akae