I’m not going to spend any time discussing “Artistic Maps” in the near future I just don’t have the skills to do the topic justice (yet). There are some truly amazing works of cartographic art out there. If you are more interested in creating “artistic” maps, you might be better served by installing and learning software such as Adobe Photoshop or The Gimp (a free alternative). To be honest, depending upon what you want to do, CC3 may not be the right choice for you at all. I’m not yet at the point where I can say that CC3 is the best mapping software out there and that you should immediately run out, purchase and install it. I’m just saving you the time of finding it yourself. Aside from my experience, much of what I’m going to tell you, is already available on ProFantasy’s site.

Along the way, I’ll provide some references to where you can get more help if you need it.

I’m going to step you through my most recent install experience of Campaign Cartographer 3, City Designer 3, Dungeon Designer 3 and related products. If you landed here, you, like me, ran into some problem during your install and went looking for help. Despite this, I was done in about 60 minutes (including the time it took me to download everything I purchased from ProFantasy’s site). I’ve done this before and even I ran into a few issues that had me searching the forums. ProFantasy makes install of Campaign Cartographer 3 (CC3) really easy…but even though it is easy, doesn’t mean things can’t go wrong. CD3 install: ‘Runtime error in setup script: Source File cd3 Line Number: 401 ” is not a valid integer value’.DD3 install: ‘Runtime error in setup script: Source File DD3 Line Number: 473 ” is not a valid integer value’.Updated 2 February 2015 – Added instructions for fixing the following issues:

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