This page contains various development notes for the Dragonborn Map. Further notes on the map itself can be found in the Skyrim Map Design and Oblivion Map Design articles.
NotesEdit
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- There are two exterior world regions in Dragonborn:
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- DLC2SolstheimWorld
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- Apparent range is (-64,-64) to (128,128) although much of the area is blank or filled with unused areas of Morrowind/Skyrim.
- Actual usable map range for Solstheim is (-40,-64) to (80,128). This could be made smaller if just the island map tiles are desired.
- Total exported map images is 27985 with 687 missing tiles comprising around 27GB.
- Final map files number 175k and are 400MB in total size.
- DLC2ApocryphaWorld
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- Apparent range is (-50,-50) to (54,50) with an actual used range of (-14, -6) to (15, 23).
- Total exported map images is 10550 with 58 missing tiles comprising 2.7 GB.
- Does not need to be made into an online map, just as a static image.
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- Solstheim Map Creation Steps
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- Use the World--Create Local Maps option in the Creation Kit to export map images for the relevant region. Use 512 image size if you wish a maximum zoom level of 17 or 256 for a maximum of 16.
- The CK will crash regularly due to running out of memory. Use manual X/Y ranges and export in pieces as needed to get all cell images.
- Convert the DDS files to TGA.
- Rename the X/Y format file names to the Google maps format of solstheim-X-Y-ZOOM.
- Crop the 512x512 images to four 256x256 images for zoom level 17. Save as JPEGs at the same time.
- Starting from zoom level 17 create all the subsequent zoom levels by combining four adjacent images and resizing by 50%.
- Export all map markers from Dragonborn.esm using modified source code from SkyEdit.
- Fill in exported location details and import into a new database/table db_map_data.mapdata the same format as existing map tables.
- Export exterior ore locations.
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- Apocrypha Map Creation Steps
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- Export map tiles as above at a size of 256.
- Convert DDS files to TGA.
- Rename the X/Y format file names to the Google maps format of apocrypha-X-Y-ZOOM.
- Starting from the original zoom level of 16 create all the subsequent zoom levels by combining four adjacent images and resizing by 50%.
- Combine all images in zoom level 16 with the indexes of (36,27)-(66,56) into one large image (7k x 7k pixels in size).
