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All of human evolution and technology have led to this achievement. NASA is jealous of these image dimensions. 420,000 screenshots is like.... 5% of the satellite images google maps uses to make a coverage map the entire planet.

Thanks for the cool data, Jon. This is good stuff.

Also, those Silksong map dimensions. G.E.R. is truly a madman 

This made me realize I never submitted the ~80 maps I made for Tomb Raider 4-6. We'll hit 100k in no time 

You have inspired me zagato. I've been trying to figure out something similar for a few Wild Arms maps and I never considered trying to catch/inject the map ID on screen transition. Maybe this will work for that one also!

Much of the internet has fallen to the AI menace. There are even AI ghouls imitating us over on that fake website. These forums are like Helm's Deep, a last human enclave against the encroaching scrapers of darkness.

I've only played this one a little bit, looks like a stairs labyrinth! I was surprised to see recently it also got a PS1 sequel. I don't think it was officially translated but it got a fan translation not long ago. Moves from 2D to 3D so I'm not sure how similar.

Pretty excited to see what TC has cooked up. Even if it's more of the same, HK was one of my favorite metroidvanias. Only thing I'm dreading is how difficult the optional lategame stuff will be, based on some of HK's insane challenges...

I plan to give this one a try at some point, I did a test with Duckstation 3D screenshots and it seemed to come out pretty well. I think doing isometric 3d maps should be doable.

Just submitted the last few FF9 maps, after being dormant on them since 2022! Now most of FF8 and FF9 are up,  at long last.

Welcome! Happy to see new faces picking up the hobby.

Thanks very much for sharing this! I've played around with VRAM tools for games before and it always gets tricky, I've stuck to emulator screenshots for the most part and trying to use codes to hide layers etc. I will definitely give this a try and check out your Lua scripts. The idea of trying to find the palette was always the part I dreaded, as it felt imprecise, but this seems like a fairly nice workflow.

Maybe I should write a PSX 3D mapping guide inspired by yours...

cool, love the big brachiosaur head. the two-version approach is nice also!

Looks like a cool Metroid-ish game I hadn't heard of, will check this one out.

e: The same dev did Odallus, that game was solid.

I am still alive.

There's a bunch of PS1 games waiting to be mapped, but I can't pick one to focus on. The epsxe emulator fork that can take 3D screenshots has been revolutionary - no more extracting and converting data to OBJs, instead can just rip them straight from gameplay. It isn't always easy or pretty (Syphon Filter for example comes out with stretched axis due to perspective that requires correction), and you will be collecting portions of the level mesh from multiple screenshots and must rotate and move them to recreate the whole thing, but for most games it isn't as bad as it sounds. I've done at least the first level in this fashion for:
- Ape Escape
- Syphon Filter
- Toy Story 2
- Armored Core
- Gex 2
- Legend of Legaia
- Tail Concerto
- Wild Arms 2
...however, Spyro 2 and some Crash levels are the only thing I've progressed much further on. With infinite time, it would be fun to grab them all.

I still haven't done disc 4 of FF9 or a bunch of Legend of Dragoon, need to get back in the mood for screenshot maps like that.

There's also a PCSX2 fork now that can do similar things with PS2 levels! https://github.com/scurest/pcsx2/releases/tag/latest-3d-screenshot
PS2 games have much higher poly counts obviously, more transparency and other lighting effects to remove and usually require culling polygons and scaling axes again to remove distortion, but I got workable level models from Devil May Cry 1, Tomb Raider 6 and Shadow of the Colossus without too much fuss. There's a lot of potentially cool maps for the PS2 library as well.

Otherwise, I drew some world maps for Dark Souls 3, Bloodborne and Sekiro that I'm pretty proud of. Here's the Sekiro one: https://www.deviantart.com/vgcartography/art/Sekiro-Illustrated-World-Map-1128031286
I'm working on improving my coloring skills, once again I have a long list of games I'd love to draw like this but precious little time to do it. I've been making videos for youtube with these maps basically drawing little arrows on them that show the basic route through the games, it would be fun to see other people try similar videos like this with VGMaps collection. I make them with powerpoint. @NESAtlas on youtube has some neat ones in a similar vein with a let's play of the game inlaid to a larger map of the level/world. It also functions to get more eyes on some of the maps.

Anyway, hopefully I can submit Spyro 2 in the next month or so.

Here's a python function that will do it, given two input images and an output path (black for matching areas, red for different):

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from PIL import Image
import numpy as np

def compare_images(image_path1, image_path2, output_path):
    img1 = Image.open(image_path1)
    img2 = Image.open(image_path2)
    if img1.size != img2.size:
        raise ValueError("Images must be the same size.")
   
    # Convert images to numpy arrays
    arr1 = np.array(img1)
    arr2 = np.array(img2)
    if arr1.shape != arr2.shape:
        raise ValueError("Images must have the same number of channels.")
   
    # Find where pixels are the same (set to black) and different (set to red)
    diff = np.zeros_like(arr1)
    mask = np.any(arr1 != arr2, axis=-1)  # True where pixels differ
    diff[..., 0] = mask * 255  # Red channel
    diff[..., 1] = 0           # Green channel
    diff[..., 2] = 0           # Blue channel
   
    # Convert back to image
    output_img = Image.fromarray(diff)
    output_img.save(output_path)