Over a year ago I bought Campaign Cartographer 3 and a drawing tablet and started on a rather lofty project. Unfortunately it got pushed to the side before I could complete much but I had managed to complete a base Emer file.
My idea here is to put any existing geographical info on Shadow World into CC maps. There would be the underlying land layer with additional layers for cities, kingdoms, populations, essence flows, feature names, etc. All the various maps from the source books would be recreated in Campaign Cartographer which could then be used to display the different types of information desired. Basically it's a Shadow World GIS.
So I decided to start with Emer, and the first thing obviously that's needed is to create the landform at a high level of detail. The main problem was that there didn't exist any high resolution single map of Emer so I had to make do with all the various pieces. I got the NE Emer map as a single file, as well as all the pieces from NW Emer. However for all of souther Emer all I had was the main Emer map with which we are all familiar with.
What I quickly found out was that the maps didn't exactly match up. In the second attachment below you see the main Emer map in the background with the high res NE Emer map overlayed. You can see the maps don't exactly match up, there is a significant rotation in the picture, as well as higher order differences (varies across the image). What I ended up doing was breaking up even the NE Emer picture into smaller images and then manually fit each one to the base Emer map. The same was true for NW Emer. You can see what I ended up with in the third attachment below.
Once I assembled that I began the process of tracing the coast to create the Emer you see below. You can download a high-res JPEG of it here:
http://www.vroomfogle.com/misc/maps/Emer_large.jpg
or the actual CC3 file here:
http://www.vroomfogle.com/misc/maps/Emer.fcw
While I don't have much time in the next few months to work on this I would like to get back to it. The first step I think is how to decide how the maps should look and create a style for them accordingly. As I'm still learning CC I think this will take the longest. Then, it's a matter of creating all the various layers of data starting with the obvious things such as rivers and mountains.
I'd be interested if someone could check the scale on my Emer map and also check the coastlines in the high res image...are there any mistakes you can find?
Anyone other SW fans out there have Campaign Cartographer?
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