Welcome

Welcome to Symbol Set 6 -

Isometric Cities (SS6), an add-
on to ProFantasy’s Campaign
Cartographer 3 Plus software
(CC3+). The artwork of SS6 was
created by renowned fantasy
cartographer Mike Schley.

License Agreement
Use of this software is
determined by a license
agreement you can view
Content during installation of SS6
and in the CC3+ Documen-
tation folder.
Introduction.................................................... 2
Technical Support
Drawing an Isometric Cities Map......... 2 Support is available from
the registered user’s area
of the ProFantasy website
Sorting Symbols............................................ 4 profantasy.com

Applying Alternative Styles.................... 7

Credits
SS6 Symbols and Textures: Mike Schley
Compilation and CC3+ Integration: Ralf Schemmann
Programming: Mark Fulford, Simon Rogers, Peter Olssen, Joe Slayton
Additional Example Maps: Sue Daniel
Thanks To: Mike Riddle, Beta Testers, Profantasy User Community,
The Colonel and Nigel
The Essentials: Ralf Schemmann

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 Introduction
Welcome to Symbol Set 6 - Isometric Cities (SS6), a
new set of artwork for Campaign Cartographer 3 Plus
(CC3+). It contains a full color, isometric city drawing
style based on the work of fantasy cartographer Mike
Schley.
Getting Started
The information and SS6 does not require any other add-ons to be used
tutorials contained in
this mapping guide assumes fully, but having City Designer 3 (CD3) or Perspectives
a basic knowledge of CC3+. 3 (PER3) available will give you access to additional
If you have not familiarized
yourself with CC3+, functions that will be helpful in creating an isometric
we recommend doing so city plan.
before you start with SS6.
Using this Guide
Mike Schley
Mike Schley is a renowned We recommend you follow this guide step-by-step. It is
game cartographer with not a full reference to all symbols and tools of SS6, but
clients such as Wizards of
the Coast, Paizo and Scho- will give you insight on how to approach creating a city
lastic, and besides creating map using this style. For a more complete overview of
this city style he designed
several other styles for
the commands useful for SS6, see the documentation
ProFantasy such as the Mike for City Designer 3.
Schley Overland style in core
CC3+, Symbol Set 4 and
Symbol Set 5. Drawing an Isometric Cities Map
He also produces monthly
symbol collections which Start a new map in the
are available to any user of Isometric Cities style
CC3+ free of charge.
by clicking the New
button.

Choose the map type

City, decide your own
settings, and click Next.

Then choose the map

style SS6 Isometric Cities
and click Next again.

For this example we’ll

create a small town map, and leave the map size at
1000’ by 800’. So click Finish and save the map.

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The Physical Terrain Toolbars
The Symbol Set 6
Start out by adding any toolbar icons are
usually found on the
major bodies of water
left of the interface
(if any) to your drawing. screen. If you can’t see
Click the Default Water them, select Tools
and ensure that
button on the left Left toolbar 1 and 2
toolbar and draw your are ticked.
river, lake or coastal
Clicking the SS6 button on
waters. For our example the file toolbar will reload
town we’ll draw a the Symbol Set 6 toolbar
layout.
branching river with a
little island as shown on the right.

For the little islands in the river mouth, use the Terrain,
Grass tool, but make sure to set the current sheet to
TERRAIN ISLANDS first.

If you right-click the Default Water button, you’ll

find more tools. For example, you can use the dark and
light versions of the water drawing tool to add depth
contours to the water.

City Walls
If your town is protected
by a fortified wall, now
is a good time to draw
it, as it will define the
extents of the main
settlement with its
streets and buildings.

Click the Walls

catalog button and use Grouping Symbols
the wall, tower and gate symbols to build the town’s Use the Group command
from the Tools menu to
wall. We recommend building it in sections for the make a selection of symbols
northwest, northeast, southwest and southeast, and into a group that you can
move and edit together.
grouping each section together, as that will make it
much easier to sort symbols later.

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 Terrain Background
Next up are the terrain
elements, roads and
the main streets of the
settlement. Right-click
the Terrain and
Roads buttons to see
all the drawing tools for
that purpose.

From the Terrain

selection, use an earth or
Types of Buildings dirt drawing tool for the background terrain of the town
The buttons on the area. Dark or lighter grass patches, as well as fields,
catalog toolbar link to the
following building types: vary the background outside the town.
Default: Slate roofed
buildings, major land- With the Roads tools add the major throughfares of the
marks and various smaller, town, as well as roads outside the wall leading to and
supplementary symbols.
Classic: Tiled roof larger from the town. Don’t draw every little side street within
buildings and villas. the town yet, as it’s usually better to let the building
Thatched: Smaller, rural
buildings and farmhouses.
symbols in the next step guide you.
Middle-east: Flat-roofed
houses and temples. Buildings
Vehicles: Nomad tents,
carts and boats.
It’s time to add the majority of buildings to the map.
Elf/halfling/orc: Non-
human dwellings. A substantial town can have a lot of houses and
Walls: City walls, towers adding them all individually can take some time. We
and gates.
Vegetation: Trees, bushes recommend organizing your town map into multiple
and hedges. parts and completing these one after the other.
Roof frills: Chimneys,
dormers and other build-
ing additions.

Placing Symbols
Each of the buildings and The buttons on the catalog load various types of
most of the other symbols buildings and other symbols. Pick the type you want to
consist of four views of
add, then place them in the map starting from the top
the same structure shown
from different sides. To and working downwards.
switch the view of the
building, press the arrow Sorting Symbols
keys. Each key shows
the same building from Placing the symbols by going from top to bottom will,
another side.
most of the time, ensure that they overlap correctly,
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but sometimes you
will want to add a
symbol later in the
midst of the quarter.
To get that in the
right order, use the
Send Behind an
Bring In Front Of
commands on the
right toolbar, or use
the Sort Symbols button on the left toolbar.

Once you are happy

with a section of town
and everything is in
the right order, we
recommend grouping
that section to finalise
it, so that future
sorting operations
don’t mess it up again.

Streets
You can now go in
and add different
street surfaces among
the buildings.

Simply right-click
the Roads button,
choose the surface
you want and lay it
down between the
buildings. The sheet
setup will make sure none of the building symbols get
covered up.

Details and Frills

With the majority of the map done, you can now go
in and fill in those little details inside and outside the

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 walls that make the map
come alive.

Add a graveyard outside

the gates, hedges around
the fields, market stalls in
the central town square,
wells and fountains
around the city, etc.

The Roof Frills catalog contains many little add-ons

for the buildings, like chimneys, dormers, gargoyles,
awning and so on. Add
them where you want
that little extra detail
Adding roof frills
on a building. You can
If you want frill symbols to
be part of the group a build- also add smoke to any
ing is in, Unlock groups after chimneys, if you like
placing the frill. Then use the
Bring In Front Of command that lived-in look of your
to bring the frill symbol town.
just in front of the building
symbol. Lock groups again
and the frill is now part of
Labels and Cartouches
the same group.
With the map itself done, the final step is to add
any text labels and
cartouches.

Click the Symbol Catalog

Settings button to
load the SS6 Cartouches
symbol catalog, which
also contains a number
label symbol. From the
same catalog you can
add a compass rose and
scale bar to the map.

The Final Map

And that completes our example map for Symbol Set 6
- Isometric Cities. You will find the SS6 Altebruck map
shown here among the other SS6 examples. Applying

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Alternative Styles
In addition to supplying a black & white version of its
style (Isometric Cities Inks), SS6 Isometric Cities comes
with alternative effect presets that turn a full colour
map into a black & white or other variant with just a
few clicks.

To choose different sheet effects for your drawing, click

the Sheets & Effects button.

From the Effect Presets dropdown box choose the

setting SS6 Isometric Cities BW, and click No if it asks
you whether you want to add any sheets.

Check the Redraw on OK box and click OK. The map

should now appear in a black & white version,which is
very good for printing while saving ink/toner.
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 There are more effects presets to choose from:

• SS6 Isometric Cities Greyscale is a pure greyscale

conversion of the color style.
• SS6 Isometric Cities is a sepia-toned coloring,
approximating an old paper look.
• Try SS6 Isometric Cities if you like richer colors with
a strong contrast.
• SS6 Isometric Cities is the normal color effect preset.