Campaign Cartographer
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FastCAD
FastCAD is a CAD program for DOS and Microsoft Windows users. FCW is the file extension used for FastCAD and Campaign Cartographer. The current release, version 7, is the full professional tool, including 3D modeling and rendering, symbol definition editing, and advanced capabilities for working...
, although most of code is written by the publishers. It includes a variety of add-ons for different genres, including fantasy, modern and science fiction. Campaign Cartographer 3, was released on 30 June 2006 and has since been updated 9 times. There are currently 9 add-ons for Campaign Cartographer; 6 drawing add-ons that add tools, templates, and symbol catalogs and 3 symbol set add-ons consisting of thousands of symbols. Campaign Cartographer has been used to illustrate novels such as Shades of Gray by Lisanne Norman
Lisanne Norman
Lisanne Norman is a science fiction author. She is best known as the author of The Sholan Alliance series...
, Le Temple Des Eaux-Mortes by Eric Ferris, and Johannes Cabal the Detective by Jonathan L. Howard. The Forgotten Realms Interactive Atlas
Forgotten Realms Interactive Atlas
The Forgotten Realms Interactive Atlas was developed by ProFantasy Software, the creators of Campaign Cartographer for Wizards of the Coast, who publish the Forgotten Realms RPG setting. The developers created vector version of the published maps for the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting and...
, published by TSR Inc. in 1999, was likewise constructed using Campaign Catographer.
Add ons
The following are commercial add-ons available for the Campaign Cartographer tool.| City Designer | This set is used to draw settlements. It includes approximately 2000 symbols, and several drawing tools for buildings and streets. |
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| Dungeon Designer | This is used to draw corridors, caves and rooms of a dungeon map. It adds about 1,000 symbols for fantasy, modern and science fiction genres. |
| Character Artist Pro | Used to create portraits of characters for role-playing games. |
| Dioramas Pro | Create terrain and props that can be used to create three-dimensional models. |
| Cosmographer | Create plans for science fiction games, including interstellar space, planetary systems, planets and starport plans for a game set in space. It can create linked, multideck drawings of starships. |
| Perspectives Pro | Create 3D isometric views of floorplans |
| Symbol Sets | These three sets add additional symbols. |