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Overview   Features

Realm Overseer® 3D is a stand-alone application to view and travel fantasy worlds, towns and dungeons. It is fully compatible with Campaign Cartographer® 2 and partially compatible with Forgotten Realms® Atlas. Convert your worlds into a fully realistic 3D environment. Navigate through your map, rotate, scroll, and zoom in. Rediscover your old CC2 maps in stunning 3D view.

Realm Overseer® 3D opens a new dimension of realism for CC2 maps by upgrading them to an animated 3D world with day-night cycle, dynamic illumination from Sun or Moon, and weather control. Enjoy the all-new experience of overseeing your realm as a continent from far away or from the top of a mage's tower. Fly along the coastline forests as a dragon or walk along the ancient, stone-paved kingdom roads.

Incredible tool for playing RPGs. No more arguing with your players or DM what you can or cannot see from a certain point. Create countryside or towns for your players and show them precisely what they can see at any given moment or encounter. And its fast! You can create a real forest glade or a live town setting from scratch in just about 30 min!

Realm Overseer® 3D is fully compatible with the majority of 3D accelerators. RO unique viewing options allow you to see your 3D maps in the hardware-accelerated 3D window mode in addition to the conventional full-screen mode. If your video card have TV output you can display fantasy realms right on the screen of your home TV! Your players will never forget a game like this!


 Maps       Travel       Weather       Cities


Stand-alone viewer or CC2 plug-in
Map overview, Traveler or Dragon fly mode
Ten weather settings
Turn on/off layers in real time
Apply various terrain textures
Customize map conversion to 3D symbols
Record movies and make JPEG screenshots
Export your maps as view-only demos Let others see your maps in 3D.
Create simplified maps for Internet 3D Java applet
Extensive catalogs of hundreds of 3D symbols to use in your maps.
Overseers Community


What is Realm Overseer®?
 
  1. Simply put: maps that used to look like this in CC2 will look like this in RO
  2. RO will allow you to customize your map terrain textures and 2D to 3D symbols conversion rules. 
  3. RO is a tool to create screenshots or movie clips of your favorite places on then map.
  4. RO is an excellent asset for creating RPG encounters and determining line of sight for spells. Use RO for 3D mapping, of computer games and worlds
  5. RO is a complete 3D mapping solution for internet use. Present 3D maps on your web site, using our free 3D applet. Export self-executable 3D maps so others can download and explore them.
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Latest News  

11.20.2001 With upcoming release of City Overseer 3D , pricing for Realm Overeseer is reduced! Now you can order internet download version for just 19.95$, and CD for 24.95$.
10.12.2001 Our site is currently undergoing major reahul. We plan to update it in near future and remake it to match new City Overseer 3D site. In near term just keep in mind some information here could be outdated.
5.25.2001 Open City initiative is announced for authors of RPG adventures and modules. Learn more here how you can have your adventure published on our upcoming CD! Read about Open City here.
5.05.2001 Pre-release work on City Overseer 3D web site is started! Take a look at first public screenshots and demos of CO3D! (To receive email notification of release, signup to our newsletter.)
2.22.2001 First patch for RO is here! One of the features included in patch is direct loading of FCW maps by RO.
2.17.2001 We officially pre-announce City Overseer 3D. Take a look at our new, just released CO3D models! The name City Overseer is slightly misleading: it won't be limited just to cities and towns. As RO was oriented on big overland maps, CO will be oriented on first person experience. Therefore it partially will be a Travel Overseer as well. Expect more catalogs in true scale ( to create realistic scenery ), more features for first-person mode. In brief we have 3 major goals for release:
1) Convert 80-90% of City Designer 2 symbols to 3D. This is in progress and we more then half-way through.
2) Create new priority system for objects. Priority system will allow to take advantage of so called "frills ": small decorative elements of the buildings. With new system, you can mix and match main buildings and additions like blocks, and therefore customize buildings final shape. Add couple more dormers on the roof, put few additions at the side of the building, that sort of things.
Thats about everything for now, we will try to post new 3D catalogs for CO3D in semi-regular basis.
2.08.2001 CD-ROM version of RO is now available.
1.22.2001 3D Catalogs section is up and running! Now you can browse through virtually all 3D models included with RO.

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Screenshots & Views

   Continent Of Narsaria Entrance to castle-town of Istmarh Rainy weather
Map view  gives you ability to rotate, move and zoom your map as if it is in your hand. This is main mode for editing texture, layers and other 3D related settings.

This mode is known to cause limited fits  "I-Am-GOD! " syndrome. Don not overdose!

In Travel mode you can walk inside the virtual 3D world using familiar first person view. As you walk through the landscape you will always be on top of the objects. That gives you ability to climb on the top of the towers and castles or walk over the river using a bridge.

Alas,there is no BFG-2000 on any our maps

Dragon Flight. This is similar to Traveler mode except you are higher above the ground and move much faster. And of course you are flying  thus the terrain features have little impact on you.

Rumors regarding getting bumps on the head because of very  tall mountains are entirely false. Just fly trough it.


Features
Environmental settings

You have full control over day/night cycle. Turn on/off sun and moon or change duration of the day and night. Select the time of day on your continent.  Sun or moon creates dynamic illumination effects. Choose various weather patterns from the sunny day, to rainy weather or heavy snowfall. Turn on/off clouds in any view. 

Layer management

You can turn on/off various layers of the map and enjoy immediate response. Observe only economics of your realm by leaving roads, cities and mineral layers or level all the mountains and observe flat-landed realm. Save different states of your city or dungeon maps on secret layers to instantly add/remove buildings, traps, NPCs, etc in course of your campaign.


  PC System requirements
DirectX compatible 3Dvideo card
Pentium 233 Mhz or better
Windows® 95,98,2000,ME
DirectX 6
64 MB RAM &  170 MB available hard drive space (210 MB free required during install)

  Recommended System
Voodoo3, GeForce2 or similar 3D video Card 
Pentium III 500 Mhz or better
Windows® 95,98,ME,2000 system
DirectX 7
128 MB RAM, 200 MB hard drive space ( 210 MB free required during install)

Apply various textures
This one of the interesting features, that allows user to apply textures on the top of specific filled regions in the map. Want to see waves on that ocean? Simply select layer and color for the oceans polygon and choose image file. You can apply textures to specific layer or to object on any layer with specific range of the color. This feature gives old map brand new look and feeling. After you done texturing your world, enjoy it in the Traveler mode

None textured map 


Textured map

Export your maps
If you want to expose your map on the internet or simply send it to the friend who does not have registered version of our product, we created an exporting ability. There are many ways for you to publish your existing maps


AVI: Istmarh

Save JPEG screenshots.

AVI: Nythoria Flight

Save your traveling experience as AVI movie. RO may save all map activity a file and it can use any custom compression codec installed on your system!

AVI: Travel

Export and present map at the web with interactive 3D preview applet. It reduces map details but has optimal small size and is great for map previews and browsing. Using mouse moves and clicks with shift/ctrl button you can rotate, zoom and scroll simple 3D snapshot of your map. Optional applet effects include background rotation, and mountain formation on the sight. 

3D Map Java Applet

You can save map as self-executable map so that your friends who download them can view it without any extra tools. Size of low level file is large since it contains all necessary data, but in return it gives viewing ability closer the the quality of commercial RO maps.

Demo Maps


Realm Overseer  3D is registered trademark of Thought Guild Inc. (C) 1998-2000. All rights reserved.
Forgotten Realms,Dungeons & Dragons and the Forgotten Realms logo  are registered trademarks of Wizards of the Coast, Inc.  
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and Campaign Cartographer 2 are trademarks of ProFantasy Software Ltd.