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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jupp" data-source="post: 4647249" data-attributes="member: 20804">Interesting enough I just had the same question about a week ago. I've used Dundjinni before but the software was not really powerful enough for my tastes and it uses too many system resources for the relatively small maps I tried to do with it. I also wanted to make battlemaps for our next Expedition to the Ruins of Greyhawk session this Friday. So I've just jumped into the water and purchased Campaign Cartographer +  Dungeon Designer 3 on Sunday. I've heard (and saw) some bad things about the cluttered UI in CC2 but when I had a look at the screenshots of the CC3 UI I thought that it wasn't really that bad so I made the blind purchase for CC3 and Dungeon Designer 3. What did really help me was a very nice set of youtube movies from joesweeney88 about Campaign Cartographer and Dungeon Designer. I built the dungeon in the tutorial while having it run in the background. After that tutorial I was able to build the first battlemap for the campaign and I have to say it looks very professional for the time I have invested so far for learning the product. Two days later I had all the 5 maps I needed to be prepared for the next gaming session and probably another session as well (Tower of War, the whole the Arena level, for those that know EttRoG).The maps have shadowed walls, lighting, props, everything that makes them nice and sweet so they look pretty fancy after being printed out on a plotter in A2/A1 format. The whole sheets and layers functions really do help in creating impressive looking maps without having to fumble around in additional applications like Gimp or Photoshop.As a conclusion I have to say that CC3 is not that hard and complicated to learn as some people might think. And CC3 is certainly not as hard to use as CC2, which I've tried some years ago for a short while.Just my 2 cents.Oh, and I really suggest watching those youtube tutorials. They will save you alot of questions and forum digging.</blockquote>

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