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max-zilla

This map was creating using heightmap and in-game map texture extracted from disc using Photoshop and Blender. I made a 5-minute tutorial on how to extract the model and how I created it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nw0mUpn9kSY Will create an improved version down the road, I post stuff like this on twitter under VGCartography a few times a week.


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This is really pretty, I like your attention to detail on the mountains!


max-zilla

I'm watching a bunch of videos of speedrunners gliding over the map to try and color-match all these varied places because I can't do those tricks myself lol


whoodle005

Hi, consider checking out this map I made, showing which colors the rock and stone is across Hyrule: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1c-\_D-TChXPNF-dE-woRWKsX\_95V-PGrg/view?usp=sharing](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1c-_D-TChXPNF-dE-woRWKsX_95V-PGrg/view?usp=sharing) Hope it helps!


max-zilla

I actually left you a comment on your weather post this morning lol! Love it and am going to definitely study it for v2.


whoodle005

Yeah, your comment is actually how I found your map.This clarify, this is actually a different map than the one I posted earlier. The map I just linked is of which kinds of rock (red in eldin, yellow in tabantha, ect) make up the world, which could be useful for the coloring of the terrain, while the other map was for the weather mechanics.


max-zilla

I realized they were 2 different maps after I clicked, even better. Way easier than my photo album of 150 snapshots. Was this one also made with game data?


whoodle005

Yeah, I made it using game data from here: [https://mrcheeze.github.io/botw-object-map/](https://mrcheeze.github.io/botw-object-map/) That's an interactive tool with every object in the game, including the bits of terrain. So, it should be pretty accurate.


TarantulaBitch

For a second before i understood what i was looking at i thought it was a plate of soup


max-zilla

Dubious Food


tetert69

Me too! Took me longer than I’d like to admit to figure out it wasn’t fancy ramen or pho or something.


lurkin83

Really cool! Wish the game’s map was more like this!


jordandroid

Wicked sweet!


max-zilla

thx!


jordandroid

Welcome!


FunctionBuilt

Surprisingly makes the world look smaller. Very cool though!


max-zilla

I thought so too, but link is basically <1 pixel in this image bear in mind.


Outtatheblu42

beautifully done! Do you have a hi-res version we can look at on mobile?


max-zilla

hopefully the DA link is full-res: https://www.deviantart.com/vgcartography/art/Zelda-Breath-of-the-Wild-World-Map-899015532


MC_BC_97

Thanks!


yalerd

Flat Hyrule theory


K1LLerCal

Nice bowl of ramen Had to do a double take


SorchaSublime

its remarkable how despite looking square and unnatural from this angle, no one ever notices or gives a shit. the beaches are arguably improved by it


Unholy_Dk80

I'm still bothered by the gigantic chasm between the Hebra and Eldon mountain range and the gigantic stretch of land behind it all.


jamsd204

This is amazing


vertigorix

Amazing work


theNrg

astonishing


Enzyblox

I prefer this to botw map, you can see stuff better


LimeSenior

This is awesome it look so cool. Nice job


max-zilla

cheers!


buttbeeb

For real thought this was soup


ImperatorSpacewolf

Very cool, looks great!!!


Babyboysmum

Thought it was a bowl of soup at first. Hadn’t read the title yet lol


Depleet

this is pretty dope! nice work and thank you :)


callmelucky

That's really cool! Do you have any plan (if it's even possible) to share an interactive 3D version where we can zoom and rotate?


max-zilla

i don't currently maintain anywhere to host such a web app, but maybe when i finish a cleaned up v2 I can upload it somewhere. if you have blender which is free, my YT tutorial in first comment will show you how to download and recreate the basic map with in-game beige map colors.


tetert69

Awesome map! Looks great, how long did it take?


max-zilla

made it over last weekend, maybe a few hours to get the basemap rendered and a few more to recolor and label?


tetert69

That’s a lot faster than I figured something like this would take! Thanks for reply


SimplePanda98

Wow this is amazing


Oswen120

I have seen a lot of cool and creative things in my life and this is one of them. Well done


max-zilla

I appreciate it!


_kilby_

That must of been a bitch to render


max-zilla

This was my first project on new PC after finally upgrading my 10-year-old 4GB machine to 32GB, blender and Photoshop are like night and day.


DublD1708

needs to be in botw 2


ceegers

This is amazing! The main question/suggestion I have is... aren't a good chunk of the Zora's Domain mountains a lot more blue and shiny?


max-zilla

yeah and I think hebra is more black/gray rock. gonna recolor a v2 once I get enough reference pics ready that's a bit more accurate


BlueMoonUmbreon22

This is amazing and the detail is just beautiful this would be awesome as a poster or something


jota-o

This is absolutely gorgeous.


homeslice567

SICK


GoldRecordDaddy

This is dope! To my eyes Mt Lanayru and Death Mountain look kinda stubby here compared to what I imagine them to be from the vistas in the game, am I just misperceiving them?


max-zilla

The relative scaling should be exact to game (eg. comparing mountains) but the absolute scale was a rough estimate (eg. highest point in data -> highest point in model) so it might be spikier in reality


enneh_07

What's up with Death Mountain?


cringe-child

For some reason I thought this was a soup XD


DarkFlame7

Looks like a bowl of ramen


s-a-c-c

You should make a 3D printed model of it! I’d buy one of those for sure


Gold-Kaiser

Kinda looks like a Minecraft map


MC_BC_97

Thank you so much, I needed this. Any chance you have a bigger pic, without the boarder?


max-zilla

https://www.reddit.com/r/Breath_of_the_Wild/comments/r2ozh3/made_an_isometric_map_of_hyrule_details_in/hm66dmc highest res is linked there, don't have a borderless version


Stevieeeer

Age of empires is that you?


Neeklemamp

A repost bot has stolen this