Okay, I've finally found the time to play Wind Waker again and now I want to make a map for it, like the maps on vgmaps.com
However, I don't know how.
I'm pretty sure that the sea maps are stored in \res\Fmap\Fmap.arc
This extracts two folders, cm and fm.
cm contains 196 Yaz0-compressed files. After decompressing, there are 196 new files, all 10432 bytes in size.
fm contains 49 Yaz0-compressed files. In WW, the overall map is 7x7 squares which is 49. So these files could be the "zoomed out" maps. 196 = 49x4, so the cm files could be the zoomed in maps (1000x1000 and 200x200), and something else.
Note: this is all speculative, I have no idea what the files are yet.
All mentioned files appear to start with the following bytes: 0x02 0x02 0x00 0x64 0x00 0x64
They are not BTI files (tested by converting them to DDS) and not TPL files (tested by converting with using tplx)
If anyone has information on these files, or wants to help, please say so
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by taking a picture of my tv while showing the map, I could count the number of pixels each map tile takes. I think they are 48x48 pixels (though it's difficult to be 100% sure)
The big maps (1000x1000 and 200x200) take up 5x5 tiles, which would make them 240x240 pixels.
However, I don't know how.
I'm pretty sure that the sea maps are stored in \res\Fmap\Fmap.arc
This extracts two folders, cm and fm.
cm contains 196 Yaz0-compressed files. After decompressing, there are 196 new files, all 10432 bytes in size.
fm contains 49 Yaz0-compressed files. In WW, the overall map is 7x7 squares which is 49. So these files could be the "zoomed out" maps. 196 = 49x4, so the cm files could be the zoomed in maps (1000x1000 and 200x200), and something else.
Note: this is all speculative, I have no idea what the files are yet.
All mentioned files appear to start with the following bytes: 0x02 0x02 0x00 0x64 0x00 0x64
They are not BTI files (tested by converting them to DDS) and not TPL files (tested by converting with using tplx)
If anyone has information on these files, or wants to help, please say so
-edit-
by taking a picture of my tv while showing the map, I could count the number of pixels each map tile takes. I think they are 48x48 pixels (though it's difficult to be 100% sure)
The big maps (1000x1000 and 200x200) take up 5x5 tiles, which would make them 240x240 pixels.
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