(ot) CC2

[Lizard]

After trying about every two months for years now, I am still incapable of making Campaign Cartographer work.

It is maybe the least intuitive piece of software I have ever used (and I can use Framemaker).

Erm...what's so hard about Framemaker? I learned it in a few hours of playing around. Granted, there's probably some cool stuff I don't know how to do, but it was good enough for me to do all the documentation for my companies software. ("Hey, you're a programmer AND a former English major! You can be our tech writer, too! That's one less person we need to hire, but don't worry -- we won't cut back on your coding assignments.")

 

[redwing]

UHHHHHHH.......................You lost me on all those computer terms. So BASICALLY (the basics - 1 world, zoom into regions, into countries, cities, towns) is all in CC2. I'm cheap and don't want to purchase all those add ons, so I was checking if I can do all that with that one program. And I have an older lab top I was going to put it on. What are the specifications of playing CC2. (So I don't get it then realize I can't play it..........) I've hunted through profantasy website and just can't find it.

 

[SoulsFury]

Soulsfury - BTW, thanks for bringing your Kazaa-caused problem to the CC2-list. Without the discussion that followed, I wouldn't have known about the slimy stuff that Kazaa was trying to do.

I didn't like that once we found the problem and fixed it, they wouldn't let anyone talk about it. Sounds odd to me. Others that aren't on the list probably have the same problem. I'm surprised it hasn't came up before, I'm sure there are hundreds of people with both kazaa and cc2.

Nik

 

[Maerdwyn]

Not sure which terms you meant (except maybe VRML) sorry I wasn't clear.

The spinning globe (that's VRML referred to) can't be done with just CC2.

Everything else (at least on my site) can be done with just CC2.

The add-ons to CC2 are basically shortcuts - they automate things which you could still do by hand in CC2, and contain lots of symbols (the little icons that make up the details on a CC2 map), so you don't have to make as many of your own.

System requirements, from the Profantasy website:

Windows 95/98/ME/2000/NT or higher
16MB RAM
30MB hard disk space
CD-ROM drive


It will run on anything from a 486 and up, but with complex maps, it will run very slowly on machines with slow (by today's standards) processors. But even on a 300Mhz Celeron, I had no problems.

Performance also gets better and better as you add more RAM, but it will run on a 16MB machine.