About the Program
Cartography
Shop started as a tool for my own purposes.
I needed an editor that was powerful, with a simple, efficient
interface. The philosophy behind this
program holds that ease-of-use and power are not antagonistic features. User-friendliness has become an often
overlooked aspect of modeling programs.
This is unfortunate, because not only does an intuitive interface lend
to gentler learning curves, but it greatly increases an expert user's
efficiency. Anyone who is at all
familiar with 3D computer graphics ought to be able to sit down with this
program, and be able to produce a reasonably good model within half an hour -
without touching a manual. An expert
user will be able to produce large volumes of geometry in a much shorter time
than it would take them with another modeling package. Greater efficiency means a shorter
development time, which means more effort can be put into creative
experimentation.
I'm very
happy with the way this program turned out, and was pleasantly surprised when
so many people told me they needed something like this.