Solum mapping

General
#1

I’ve been looking for a way to map Solum (because that’s where I am right now) at a 1px per block scale in order to capture settlements and outposts, etc. I’m having a hard time getting a sense of where my beacons are relative to each other, and I’m an absolute failure at converting the [a,b,c] values to actual map coordinates. (I know b is altitude, but I ran off looking for that “bridge” artifact one can see from Sanctuary [-17xx ,21yy] and clearly SW from my starting point was not the right way to go.

(It doesn’t make the task any easier that the debug presentation is far smaller than I can easily read with trifocals, but that’s just how it is.)

I could fake this if I just had the size of the Solum map to work with. (Well, that and a notion of where the origin is–is the map 4-quadrant? Quadrant 1? Quadrant 4?) The current JPG isn’t the right size and is devoted to named regions, so I can’t use that as a starting point.

#2

I believe that all maps are a square 4000x4000 blocks.

-2000,-2000 all the way to 2000,2000

If I remember rightly. But don’t fully trust me, I’ve been wrong before. @Pseudonym84 and @Spoygg do you have input?

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#3

That’s the size as far as I’m aware.

#4

Actually 4600x4600

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#5

I never did the exploration stuff or payed attention to it so I was 100%

#6

4608x4608 actually

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#7

I love the one-upping chain

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#8

I have it as 3072 right now (which covers my beacons). Now I can move on to adding other beacons (or settlements) to the map to see how everything is spread out.

#9

If you were to run to the end of the map… is there an invisible wall? Or does it loop back around like an actual planet?

#10

Yes.

Just kidding. It maps as you expect…you cross the polar region and now you’re going the opposite polar direction.

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#11

Despite what the @Illuminoorti might tell you, if you run to the edge of the map you fall off the planet and land here.

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#12

There IS no cow level!

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#13

Ooh my Bob I am running to the end of the map the very next time I log on. I’m so exsited.

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#14

This is correct. 4,608 by 4,608. I’m certain because I’ve built around one ;3

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#15

That’s why they call him “Lucky Guess Luca” :smiley:

… but also because, y’know, he built the worlds you built around :wink:

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#16

I beg to differ

cowlevel.png1683×948 1.38 MB

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#17

All right, where is the fershlugginer capital? The gold star on the rotating Solum in Sanctum provides coordinates along the lines of -223N 1774E, but that’s in the middle of a mountain, and I didn’t see anything there. (I have probably-wrong coordinates for a place called Infinity as well.)

#18

I think the “north” coordinate shown in gui is actually “negative” z in debug text. aka -223N is z=223 not z=-223

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#19

yes i found this out too. the debug coordinates are true coordinates, and the location coordinates are fiddled around with.

1284N -381E is actually -381, xx, -1284

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#20

I’ll go looking at the transformed coordinates. I might have actually been there already–but magically forgot to copy down the location of something as I went through.