Campaign Cartographer 2 Pro

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Do you have what it takes to create your own world? We do!

CC2 Pro is the fastest and most powerful map-making software for gamers. So if you’re a busy person who wants the best, this is the software for you. In minutes you can learn all you need to rapidly create beautiful maps for campaigns, games and even real-world applications.

A few simple but powerful tools do it all, and you can learn what you need in a matter of minutes. But CC2 Pro's new simplicity doesn't mean less power. In fact, quite the reverse. CC2 Pro gives you easy access to a huge choice of mapping symbols, styles and types. CC2 Pro gives you fingertip control over every aspect of your mapping. With CC2 Pro, you draw exactly what and how you want.

Whenever you need designs, whether it's roleplaying games or wargames, fantasy, modern or SF, CC2 Pro can help you create them. From entire worlds and countries, to floorplans and furniture, CC2 Pro can do it. You can map out your entire campaign world, place your troops in the field, or chart your galactic empire.

So, who uses CC2 Pro?

Authors, games designers and thousands of gamers and have mapped out the worlds of their imagination with CC2 Pro. We've improved CC2 Pro to match their needs. Our mail-list users are extraordinarily helpful and resourceful – if you want ideas, they'll help. If you buy CC2 Pro, you are joining a huge, friendly community of like-minded designers. There are hundreds of user websites with a huge variety of maps. After nine years of software manufacture, we bring you quality plus diversity.

CC2-Pro - the industry standard map-maker for gamers

 

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If you're like me, not being very artistic when it comes to drawing maps by hand for your campaign world, then Campaign Cartographer 2 -aka CC2- is the program you need.

Created by ProFantasy, CC2 Pro allows you to map out your world, make regional maps from the world map and do basic cities and dungeons. Keep in mind, however, that CC2 Pro is not a paint program, but based on a CAD program. This gives it a rather steep learning curve and you do get frustrated when you first start using it. I know I did and still do at times, even though I've been using it for 5 years now.

CC2 comes with a variety of templates to make your maps on, along with wonderful symbols for the terrain; such as mountains, trees, hills and other natural features. You can also create your own symbols and symbol catalogs that are just for your world.

The best feature of this program, is the ability to insert a bitmap of a map that you might have drawn by hand and scanned. It's much easier tracing the hand-drawn map then trying to redraw it freehand with a mouse. Another great feature is the ability to right-click on a button in one of the toolbars to bring up additional commands. A real time-saver.

The templates for CC2 uses layers, which you can hide and freeze when working on a map. This comes in handy when working on a large map and you want to cut down on the redraw time. It's also good when you make a mistake and need to erase something you just did. By freezing the other layers, the work already completed won't be affected.

You would think CC2 couldn't get any better, but it does! The CC2-l List at yahoo groups has the best support around. Any question you have concerning the program or doing something with the program are answered here, often by the creators of the program!