What I'm trying to do in this review is both scare and encourage potential buyers. You can make the grid overlay semi-transparent, add a glow to text, or add a shadow to a wall.

Each sheet can have one or more effects to improve the appearance of your maps.

This speeds up drawing time immensely, as CC3 skips over an entire section of the drawing when a sheet it hidden. You could have a HEX/SQUARE grid sheet that always draws last. If you have BACKGROUND sheet with the contours and map border on, it will always draw before the trees, mountains and symbols.

You can always ensure that certain features are on top of others.

Unlike layers, all entities on each sheet are sorted into order by sheet name, back to front.

Like layers, sheets can be hidden or shown. Sheets can be thought of as a stack of transparent pieces. Each drawing has its own set of layers, each with its own layer status. CC3 pre-defines two other layers: Merge and Standard which can renamed, but not removed from a drawing. CC3 has many pre-defined mapping layers including STRUCTURES and VEGETATION. Layers are a way of associating related entities. Note that the following map is one I developed in only about 15 minutes and so it is of course much lesser quality and detail than the map above - rather it is designed to give a broad idea what the default style looks like.

To give you an idea what you can produce with the default template see the example below. At its core is the main CC3 program which is optimized for making overland wilderness maps.The map I produced above used a template that defined a set of tools to produce a map in the style of the Pete Fenlon Middle Earth maps.This came with a paid add-on. Let's discuss a bit as to what CC3 is and what is available for it.

The map above took me a few hours to develop, designed to portray a land on the shores of a large freshwater lake. someone who is able to whip out all sorts of pivot tables, graphs, predictive models, etc. For me it's a tool with which I have a fair amount of proficiency - probably akin to someone who occasionally makes use of Excel vs. My skills with CC3 are probably middle of the road - I've been using it and its predecessor, CC2, for years, albeit not extensively.

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