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Tutorial
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Finished examples of 4 .. 5
the tutorials are
found in the (
Tutorials\Dungeons
folder under CC3. 6 (
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Can’t see the DD3 ,

toolbar?
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This is usually found
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on the left of the
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DD3 screen. If you
can’t see it, select
Tools and ensure
that Left toolbar 1
and 2 are ticked.

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Dungeon Templates
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The New Drawing
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Wizard lets you
decide on the style * . ;
and size of any
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floorplan you create.
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Select Decide
Settings Myself. ! 9
• For highly detailed 2 3
rich art and colors,
choose the DD3
Dungeon style. . 200'x 160'battlemat shaped.fct
• For simple vector $( $
symbols in choose
the DD3 dungeon
style. $ 8 , +/
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Add Room
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This dialog allows 9
you to set options for
the room to be 9= 8
drawn, including its
basic shape (square, "
rectangle, circle, or
polygon), drawing . ' 8
mode (foreground &
background, ' 8
foreground only, 7
background only),
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whether to include a
wall or not and
properties for the
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wall if drawn, and
the fill styles and - 6 4 =
colors to be used for ' 8 (
the room’s : :
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Drawing Corridors
# Like Add Room,
Add Corridor has
1 > wall properties and
Corridor style settings.
start point (B connect to wall, C In addition, you can
connect no break): determine if the
corridor has an end
** 2 . wall, whether wall
" ends wrap and

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whether you want the
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Corridor cursor to
lock to existing
rooms and corridors.

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Corridor Wall
Break

Pressing B tells DD3 6

that the next point to
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be placed connects to
another room or
corridor, much in the
same way as pressing .
C does. This time,
however, DD3 will 3
break the wall the
corridor is attached
to, connecting wall
sections as 0
necessary.
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If you are going to
place a door at the
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junction between a
room and a corridor,
use the Connect *? 8 3 ' 8
option, and use the
Door symbol to
break a hole in the # (
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Editing Rooms and
Corridors
% 1 Changing the
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( and corridors is
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easiest way to select
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room and corridor
• . components to edit is
to select by the
components layer.
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For example you
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wish to change the
wall widths to 1’, all
• . you need to do is to
click Change Line
5 ) Width, select by
Layer and choose the
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Wall layer, then Do
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Map Style
4
When you start a
dungeon with a New '
Drawing Wizard,
9
select Dungeon then
click Decide Settings
myself. DD3 offers * 1 Example04.fcw. .
you two styles of
dungeons. Choose
between two styles:
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Dungeon. This
style is vector ! .
based, with solid 8
colors and hatch
patterns.
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This is for richly
detailed maps with
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Water
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The Water button
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adds water on top of
4 ( 4 the floor. To add
water below a floor,
1 right click the
Terrain button and
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there.
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Sheets

' 8 ' See CC3 Essentials

. page 8 for an
4 introduction to
Sheets and Layers.
# ( You can override the
sheet settings for
" Drawing Tools by
selecting Insert on
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Current Sheet when
you select the tool.
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As well as aligning,
they can scale
themselves, break
holes in other entities * 1 Examples05.fcw .. / Tutorials\Dungeons
to accommodate
themselves, etc.
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To turn off smart
symbols, right-click . 9
at any time you have
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a symbol attached to
your cursor. The
Symbol Parameters
dialog box will $ . . +E 0 4
appear. Click to
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check in the Disable
SmartSym box, and
press More.

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As well as making
doors secret, you can
( also denote that they
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down the catalog to
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the symbol to
find door label
symbols. Select
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these, then insert
9 E G them at the same
( 4 E point you inserted
the door.

8 3 # . # 3 One way
Sliding
left/right
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Sliding up/down

. ) 9 9 Locked

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Trapped

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Traps layer

This layer can be used

in addition to the
SECRET layer. Hide
it if you need to. Just
because they’ve
discovered the secret
door, no need to show
them the traps, too.

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Aligning non-wall 4 " 4 (
Symbols
Example07.FCW Tutorial
DD3 provides a way
for you to align
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symbol angle. Right .
click when placing a
symbol, click Align to
Edge then and select
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on a straight edge to
set the symbol angle
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Select a new symbol catalog, and automatically change Click one of the symbol settings on the
the current layer to suit. DD3 bar:

Select a new symbol catalog without changing the Click . button, and locate the
current layer. desired symbol catalog.

Change the currently selected symbol. Click on another symbol in the Catalog
Window.

Change the currently selected symbol to one already Press the button, and select the
within the drawing. desired symbol.

Rotate to N, S, E, or W. Press the Arrow keys.

Dynamically rotate a symbol by eye. Hold down CTRL and SHIFT, and move
the mouse.

Dynamically scale by eye. Hold down CTRL, and move the mouse.

Rotate or resize precisely. Right-click to display the Symbol

Parameters dialog box, then type the new
settings desired.

Reset symbol scale and rotation to the default. Right-click to display the Symbol
Parameters dialog box, then press the 9
; button.

Continue placing symbols from the Symbol Parameters Press the 0 button.
dialog box.

Stop placing symbols. Click a button menu entry or select another

symbol.

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Unlike most drawing
tools and symbols
* 1 Example08.FCW .. / that do the job of
selecting the correct
Examples/Dungeons
sheet for you
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current sheet.
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on the sheet indicator
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when placing text.
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wrong, and you
eventually find your
+ 9 ( D text all over the map,
don’t worry. Simply
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selecting by Entity
Type “2d Text “ to
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J . 1 > correct sheet.

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Text Sizes
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large your text
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But 1/20th of the
larger map
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title and 1/50th for
B . KK ; ) any labels are good
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4 Geomorph Symbols
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The fact these are
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symbols means that you
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their individual
components unless you
Explode them first.
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symbols will align to
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explode first.
. 200'x 160'battlemat shaped.fct Please read Exploding
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Symbols Touch
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are specifically
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symbols in mind,
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To create an elliptical *: 9
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circular room, right
click during symbol ** 2 )
insertion and set
different X and Y
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scale.
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and move the mouse
while inserting the
symbol to decrease
increase the size of a
piece.
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CTRL key while
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things you do not
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that CC3’s selection
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criteria menu is but a
right-click away. To
make sure you don’t
select any rooms or
corridors created
using the Add... tools,
use And, Entity Type,
Symbol Reference.
This can be used to
filter out entities that
are not symbols (e.g.,
Add Room, Add
Corridor, and
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sections) when you
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geomorph symbols.
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available space. This makes long corridors look thin.)

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available space. This makes long stairs look thin.)

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command, right click
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select entities on a
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particular layer. Right
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highlight the layer
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you wish to include.

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entities quickly and . 0 / 6 #
easily by holding
down the CTRL key
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and clicking on their 2
edge or drawing a 6' .> , 81 % ; @0' 2A 3
selection window 8 3
around them. # 9 3 (
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the usual way.
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features are accessible
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Saved Sheet Effects

All the sheet effects

you have applied to $ . 1 >
a drawing can be
saved as a setting to
be used on future
maps.
DD3 (and each of
the other CC3 add- @ 3 4 A
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pre-constructed sets. (
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save these to create 4 4
your own.
You can browse 0 4
through the different
effect settings (
available, but keep
the default one for
this map. It is best + . 9 5
suited to a small
dungeon floorplan ? .
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for symbols that are
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taller than the rest and
would therefore cast a
longer shadow.
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SYMBOLS, DD3’s
automatic sheet
options will not
interfere with your
own symbol
placement.

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Bevel Bevel gives and illusion of depth to edges. Use it on

walls to give them a slight 3d effect.
Blur Softens the edges of entities and makes vector entities
merge better with bitmap backgrounds. Can be nice
on text, but should be used carefully. Should usually
not be used on bitmap fills, as it obscures textures.
Drop shadow Adds a drop shadow behind the sheet’s entities, which
gives a slight 3d impression. Use on objects that
should stand out a little from the background, e.g.
furniture.
Glow Adds a colored, fading glow around objects. Can be
set to appear on the outside or inside. Use a dark color
to merge objects into the background or a bright one
to make them stand out.
Inner Glow Similar to Glow but works only on the inside. Use for
a slightly different effect.
Screen border Use to limit sheet effects to the actual drawing area.

Transparency Changes the opacity of the selected sheet. It is useful

for slightly transparent areas like water or to make
objects fade into the map, e.g. a grid.
Wall Shadow Creates shadow cast from the objects on the sheets.
Since the shadows are on the outside, the effect is
mainly useful for walls of surface structures like
houses. It can also be used like a drop shadow on
symbols for a somewhat different effect.

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internal commands for 4 .
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script language, you
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can use Numeric Edit
to change it. Click
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the edge of the link
box.
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linked maps portable
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subfolder containing + # D KK )
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will work.
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character to represent
the current folder. If ? . (
you do link maps
together in the same " ( (
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automatically be
linked using $ in place - C D D
of the file’s path, ( 4
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will be portable.
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drawing tools) Example18.FCW Tutorial/Dungeons
having a “T” in
their name contain B '
transparent areas Terrain, Grass Green 4 T, Fractal
where the fill
behind the object
will shine through.
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excellent tools to
break up the
regularity that can
result from tiled
bitmap fills or to ** . 1
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Because CC3 has to
render the results
produced by sheet
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effects for each
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with a drawing
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to turn Effects Off
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need wall shadows 5 1 ##
of different heights
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Full color bitmap
images can use up a
lot of ink when
* 1 Example20.FCW printing at high
Tutorials/Dungeons quality on a normal
inkjet printer.
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only at high settings
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the final print run.
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low-detail settings
< . ' for trial prints.
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factors for your < $ 4
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type in the values 4 @ ' A
in inches and feet,
if you use the
appropriate *: . 2 4
characters, e.g. 2”
(inch) and 5’ (feet).
[As of this writing there is a glitch in the preview function,
CC3 will do the
cconversion to
resulting in duplication of certain entities on screen. Don’t
numerical values worry, it’s only the preview, the print will be fine.]
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