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In the interim, I've taken the Greyhawk map done by Linda Kekumu and Lonny Eckert have originally done (and posted on ProFantasy's website- download here) and have been cutting it down to size, in order to show the various locations that these adventures take part in- so, I'm getting two maps done at once, and should have both available next week (hopefully), or before the end of the month.
For those of you looking for Frongoid's Spell Template- I've opened up my Symbols & Templates page- you can see a screenshot, as well as download a copy from there.
Although I've not done much as far as this mapping project (my "Giants" group broke up, without even entering the Hill Giant fortress), I've been relatively busy over the last few weeks- not only working GenCon for ProFantasy, but also getting some 3E material keyed in for my own group use.
If you would like to grab my own Excel Character Spreadsheet, or a PDF File of some 3E creatures, please, feel free to.
For those of you who come to my page to get my maps- notice that I've opened up a new map page - that of the Maps- Drow Kingdom. It will contain all of the underground maps from here on out, up until I finally get to Lolth's mothership.
Chris Heismann has been busy again; much busier than I have been. His new "US Road Map" symbols are now available - and, you can download it from my Symbols & Templates page.
In addition, Chris Heismann has given me his symbol catalog, which allows you to place "scrolls" in 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, and 20 point type, in either Arial, Flat Brush (not shown), or Times New Roman. If you click on the screenshot below, you'll be able to download it for your own use. I'll be also using this in order to place the room numbers in the Troglodyte map, and in all future maps- and, making comments and suggestions to Chris along the way. Hopefully, I'll always have the latest version of the symbol catalog on my site; that's for Chris to decide. You can download it from my Symbols & Templates page.
I'll be taking a small break from the Giants, in order to create a symbol catalog of my own. I recently received a copy of the Dungeon Builder's Guidebook, which gives 'geomorphs' for use of quick dungeon construction. What better thing to do than to put that into Campaign Cartographer 2? (With luck, I'll be finished with that by GenCon; between Chris's symbol catalog, as well as the geomorphs, that would be an excellent demonstration tool!)
One of the things I did manage to do, though, was to take a look at the maps I did complete. I've gone through and edited the symbol catalogs; I've cleaned out a lot of the extras; and, I've even went into the Glacial Rift of the Frost Giant Jarl, Upper Level- and discovered a leaking multipoly, which I've since cleaned up.
The old map sizes came out to roughly 1.28mb; the new, improved map sizes now weigh in at a svelt 783kb. They're all on the website (as of this note), ready to be downloaded. (No, I'm not sending you to the website in order to increase any counters- nor have you visit any advertisers- nor to bog down your computer with cookies- nor to have annoying popup windows come up whenever you sneeze- which is one of the reasons I'm using the Angelfire websites, as opposed to, say, GeoCities, or Tripod. Sorry- pet peeve showing!)
Your opinion- would you like to see some screenshots of what is possible with Character Actor? I could put up some JPG and GIF screenshots (sorry- no CC2 files!) so that people are aware of what's possible with that. I'll await the incoming emails, before starting on that; if there isn't enough positive interest, I won't do it.
I will be informing my subscribers (which you can get on the list, by the way, by mailing me at Halfling@NetAddict.Net) when my availability is such that I'll be able to continue creating maps for your viewing, and playing, enjoyment.
I am showing a marked improvement in sizes- Map 4 is 237kb (it still has all those definitions); Map 5 is now 49kb; and Map 6 is now 55.9kb! (Map 7, which I am still working on, is over 300 kb in size, for comparison.)
Now, I seem to remember that I had offered those interested some of my Temple of Elemental Evil maps. You simply follow this link in order to get there. Hope this saves you some work; I know that they're not exactly the best (as this was my first dalliances within CC2), though they are still somewhat usable.
In any case- comments, suggestions, etc. al. are always welcomed.
I've just completed map #3 (Glacial Rift of the Frost Giant Jarl, Upper Level); as these CC2 files are over 200k in size (and, MIME encoding them
may bring the total up to nearly 800k!), I'll be sending them, one every other day, for as long as I've got maps to send. (And, considering that
I've got the Queen of the Spiders (GDQ1-7), I
Some ISPs may "choke" on size of the email; if so, there are two things you can do. #1)- call your ISP and ask them to delete the offending mail. #2)- Pick up an email remover utility (which will allow you to 'screen' your incoming emails, and delete the spam, or the oversized, emails in your box. The one I use (with a review of sorts) is available through through here or from it's host page as FreeWare.)
