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    Well, I just recently made a handful of charges in Illustrator. There's a bull passant, a hawk, an eagle displayed, a lion rampant, and a tree eradicated at the end of this thread: http://www.cartographersguild.com/sh...?t=3627&page=3

    They're all in simple black-and-white, so they can be recolored however you like, and they're relatively high resolution transparent PNGs.

    Do you subscribe to the ProFantasy Annual? I seem to recall that there was an issue this year on heraldry in CC3.
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    Quote Originally Posted by NeonKnight View Post
    I think you need to set up all shadows to utilise the Global Light Setting. As it is, your mountains/Hills appear to have the Light coming from the North West, while the ground shadows run opposite that.

    Otherwise very imporessive.
    Imporessive is something good?

    Anyway, I didn't even notice the light sides on the mountains should have actually been the darker sides (if I keep the other shadows like they are). But you are right!

    The mountains/hills are something I slapped together by using some several bevels and blurs. There's no real shadow effects in there, so there isn't a "Use Global Sun Direction" for them, unfortunately. If I want to fix them I have to edit the other shadows. Which is no problem, but rendering the map again will take about 1.5 hours work of cutting and pasting screenshots and *that* I refuse to do for now
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    Quote Originally Posted by Midgardsormr View Post
    Well, I just recently made a handful of charges in Illustrator. There's a bull passant, a hawk, an eagle displayed, a lion rampant, and a tree eradicated at the end of this thread: http://www.cartographersguild.com/sh...?t=3627&page=3

    They're all in simple black-and-white, so they can be recolored however you like, and they're relatively high resolution transparent PNGs.

    Do you subscribe to the ProFantasy Annual? I seem to recall that there was an issue this year on heraldry in CC3.
    Thanks Midgardsormr. I noticed them not long after you posted them. Most are not usable to be me. My world does not contain lions or eagles for example. Also I am thinking of something more like the heraldry on this map:
    http://www.cartographersguild.com/sh...highlight=logo

    Unfortunately something like that is far above my skills. I like CC3 because it does most of the work for me. I just throw stuff together and in the end it actually looks quite decent (I do get jealous when I see what people can do entirely by hand).

    I do not subscribe to the ProFantasy Annual. Only some editions seemed valuable to me and I dislike the fact you can't order them separately.
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    I believe those are Japanese heraldry symbols, I'm sure if you do a google search you can find some that are royalty free.
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    I'm really impressed with this map, Nice work. I have CD3 myself, which I haven't had a chance to play with yet, but seeing your nice work has motivated me to try it sooner rather than later.

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    Re: stiching...

    If you make all the screen grabs overlapping areas a program like hugin can be used to autostitch them together.

    I have used it to stitch together scanned portions of a large document and it had to compensate for rotation, so this should be a breeze!

    Could you post up a set of overlapping grabs from a portion of the map? I'd be willing to test it out since I am familiar with the software...

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    Well, this is going to be an interesting experiment. You mean something like this, right?
    The hills are especially nasty, because CC3 sometimes renders them a bit differently if you grab several parts of a hill (has to do with the shadow effects getting cut off).
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    Wow, that result is pretty impressive. Did you have to fiddle with the software a lot?
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