Oh yes - favourite tool in the box is CC3, for me

I like the way it handles roof shading automatically in city maps, and does a pretty good job of actual lighting effects in dungeons... but you have to have City Designer 3 and Dungeon Designer 3 to see both those things in action

I really like the way the architecture has been designed to allow the user to create an entire new style of their own if they wish, and I like the sheet effects, the built in ready made symbols, styles, and textures... pretty much all of it really.

CC3 is a very powerful tool - but then so are a lot of other apps.

For myself I tend to use CC3, GIMP/Krita, Sketchup, Blender, Vue, Genetica, and anything else I can get my hands on - all in combination to get the best of everything

That, to me, is the secret behind getting to be a reasonably good mapper - to be able to control a wide range of tools to make the map in my head come into existence on the screen, rather than allowing myself to be limited by what one app in particular can do for me.


What kind of mapping apps are you thinking of using?

EDIT: wow! Ninjad twice over! LOL! Really must learn to type faster