Guild Wars 2

Hey everyone,

this was possible thanks to the recently released maps API

https://plus.google.com/u/0/111008049726565799376/posts/TMDN7k9b3St

Goddchen

Awesome job man. Where did you get this printed?

I made one of these that is over 32000 × 32000 pixels from the uncompressed game files. Talk about quality…but it is 3GB in size lol.

Very nice!
Do you know how large a tile of the map is – what “real” area it’s supposed to represent?
Thanks

A real in-game tile is 512×512. The world map has 32 of these tiles horizontally and 32 of them vertically making the map initially to be 16384×16384. But in-game the background tiles are doubled in size while the tiles for the areas themselves remain the same size. This is why the world map in game can zoom in so much.

The true world map has dimensions of 32768 × 32768

I was using a JPG with the exact maps API world coordinates pixels, something about 32***x32***, too.
But before submitting it to posterxxl.de for printing, I scaled it to 150dpi for 120×120 (which were something like 7***x7***).
Quality looks really good.

The JPG’s for the maps API are not extremely good quality but they are perfectly fine for a project like yours where the dimensions aren’t huge.

If you made the map alot bigger then you would see the decrease in quality. But since you aren’t zooming in much, it’s gonna look fine.

Thanks! I was kinda wondering if it could help with this.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Measuring-height-distance-and-speed/first#post2258363
I don’t understand anything about API – but if I know what the size of one tile is …

btw, if anyone is interested in the image: https://www.dropbox.com/s/t7gos5yg4y3n5qg/gw2-map-150dpi-120x120.jpg

that’s quite the map
too bad it shows jsut how small the guild wars 2 universe really is lol.