If you have to hand-draw with the House tool for only a few, you’ve still saved a lot of time. If you don’t like what you get after placing the buildings, that’s OK! You can move, scale or rotate those buildings (an easy way to do this is Quick Move via Ctrl+Q) or even just erase and hand-draw to fill the gaps. Ě key point of the Random Street tool is to quickly make houses that conform to your roads.If you don’t like the buildings that the tool generated for you, just move the mouse up and down or side to side to regenerate all but the first building (if you want to redo the first building, you need to cancel the tool and try again).But the tool can be a little quirky, so let’s talk about how to get the most out of it: But beyond just settings, Random Street is going to be the backbone of crafting most large towns or cities, just because it automates a lot for you. This time, we’ll cover a whole bunch of assorted tips & tricks on map-making in City Designer 3.īack in Part 4 we covered how to use the Random Street tool in terms of settings for your streets. Last time we did a thorough deep dive on how to make your districts both unified and unique across the city. If you need to refer back to previous articles in the series, check them out here: part1, part2, part3a, part3b, part4, and part5.
Hello again mappers! Thanks for coming back to my series on infusing your city or town maps with a rich milieu as the backdrop for your stories. Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.Ralf | J| Ari Gilder, City Designer 3, city mapping, city planning, guest article Another source of good information and ideas for map-making with any tool is the Cartographer’s Guild. Most experienced users recommend the series of tutorials as the first step for new users. The symbol library provided with City Designer includes features in a variety of styles (e.g., Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Present-day, Gothic, Orcish, Elvish and Classical) and can be exported for use with other software.Ĭampaign Cartographer really does make it possible for the general user to produce professional-looking maps. Or you can let the program do the work for you, automatically orienting buildings to the street and laying out whole streets with as few as two clicks of the mouse. With City Designer to assist in the process of making local area maps, you can specify such fine level of detail as the direction of light and the size and shape of each house. Campaign Cartographer is a professional-quality computer-aided-design package for drawing maps, particularly for use in roleplaying games. ProFantasy Software has released City Designer 3, an add-on for the latest edition of the company’s Campaign Cartographer application.
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