dungeondraft_pack files from selected asset folders. This tool provides details for selected maps, such as when they were created, which version of Dungeondraft they were created with, which cusom asset packs they use, and which assets they use from those asset packs. This tool allows you to easily create and manage data files for tilesets and walls. This tool is similar to Copy Assets, except that it allows you to copy assets as patterns, terrain or tilesets. This tool will work for other assets as well, but Campaign Cartographer has two important naming conventions that this tool uses to manage how it copies assets.
This tool is primarily designed to copy Campaign Cartographer 3 Plus (CC3+) assets into a textures\objects and/or textures\portals folder structure for Dungeondraft. This tool calls dungeondraft-unpack.exe to unpack selected files, then it calls ImageMagick to convert assets to webp, then it repacks the converted asset folders. This works similar to the Convert Assets tool, except it works on files that are already packed. Whether or not you find it ultimately beneficial, I will leave to you. I added this function at the suggestion of someone on the Dungeondraft Discord server. webp files are loaded into memory, they are uncompressed. That being said, this will not save resources in Dungeondraft, as when. webp format.webp offers lossless compression, so the files on disk end up being smaller. The Convert Assets tool will convert supported image formats in selected folders to. This tool will allow you to create a color theme from a selected map file. This tool will allow you to apply a previously saved color theme to a selected map file.
This is the file that Dungeondraft uses to determine which assets in the object library are associated with which tags. The best free alternative to Campaign Cartographer is Azgaars Fantasy Map Generator, which is also Open Source.If that doesnt suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Campaign Cartographer and 16 is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Ask questions, get help, show off your creations.
The ProFantasy Community forum is the main place to discuss everything related to ProFantasy Software, such as Campaign Cartographer and Fractal Terrains. Tag Assetsįor people who want to create their own custom asset packs, the Tag Assets tool will create a properly formatted default.dungeondraft_tags file. Welcome to the Profantasy Community Forum Please read the Posting Guidelines, if this is your first visit. If you're looking for my Custom Tags tool, that can be found here. This program offers six tools to facilitate creating and managing custom asset packs for Dungeondraft. Double click the "DDTools" desktop icon.
Both download and print editions of such books should be high quality.Copyright © 2021 EightBitz, Creative Commons CC-BY-NCĬontact: follows is a brief description of what this is and what it does, but please read the full documentation as it contains important details. City Designer) can't find CC3, The answer.
Most newer books are in the original electronic format. If it's version number is less than 3.76, go to your registration page and download CC3 Update 2. Also, their file size tends to be smaller than scanned image books. These ebooks were created from the original electronic layout files, and therefore are fully text searchable. Campaign Cartographer 3 (33) u/Savageptts 'The city designer add on is the best thing ive found for city maps.' Arkenforge (35) Also an option for full-game playability given its good DM tools, Arkenforge also has a fairly decent amount of map-making resources. We mark clearly which print titles come from scanned image books so that you can make an informed purchase decision about the quality of what you will receive. The text is fine for reading, but illustration work starts to run dark, pixellating and/or losing shades of grey. It's the problem of making a copy of a copy. Unfortunately, the resulting quality of these books is not as high. We essentially digitally re-master the book. Also, a few larger books may be resampled to fit into the system, and may not have this searchable text background.įor printed books, we have performed high-resolution scans of an original hardcopy of the book. However, any text in a given book set on a graphical background or in handwritten fonts would most likely not be picked up by the OCR software, and is therefore not searchable. The result of this OCR process is placed invisibly behind the picture of each scanned page, to allow for text searching.
Most older books are in scanned image format because original digital layout files never existed or were no longer available from the publisher.įor PDF download editions, each page has been run through Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software to attempt to decipher the printed text. These products were created by scanning an original printed edition.