CC3 Advice

[Beowulf]

For kicks I downloaded the trial version of FM v7.0 from NBOS' website. I'll say that in just 15 minutes of playing around with it I was starting to get the hang of it. The fractal mapping feature for random land masses is awesome! I imagine CC3 does at least as much stuff, probably more, but I was impressed by my limited exploration of FM. It gives me hope that I'd be able to actually use one of the mapping utilities! Probably CC3 would be much easier than I remember CC1 being.

Thanks for all the advice, NeonKnight. Perhaps I should try the demo of CC3 and compare the two.

[Beowulf]

Ooops...guess they don't have their demo version available just yet.

[jaerdaph]

I've been using CC since CC2 first came out (about ten years now). The learning curve for CC has been greatly reduced over the years, as has the time required to do things. While part of this I'm sure is due to my now intimate familiarity with the program, the rest of it is due to things such as the drawing tools first introduced in CC2 Pro. CC3 et al. is a CAD program, so it is a different way of thinking if you are coming from a map design background like PhotoShop. As has been mentioned, doing the tutorials/examples is still the best way of learning things. Fortunately, the manual included with CC3 that gives you the basics is now a short, 40 page pamphlet as opposed to the 100+ page manual that CC2 used to come with.