AF LiveMap - Self-Building Live Map (Lidar Point-Cloud Scanner)

AF LiveMap

A live map that builds itself while you play.

There are no pre-made maps here. A UE4SS mod casts lidar rays from your camera, the hits pile up into a point cloud, and a small local server shows the map in your browser, on PC and on your phone, in real time. You just walk around and the map reveals itself.

Features

• []Point-cloud map scanner. Rays cover the whole sphere around you, so you never have to aim at anything. Just walk and the place fills in, floors and ceilings included. Large halls fill in slowly by nature, since the further away a surface is the wider the gaps between hits get, so there's a scan_cone_deg option that fires the same rays where you're looking instead. Roughly 15x faster for big rooms and long corridors. Purely additive by default: points are never deleted, so walls never vanish. The scan persists between sessions and is shared across all your devices.[/]

  []2D and 3D views. 2D is top-down with color by height, so floors and stairs read at a glance, and it stays smooth at any zoom even with millions of scanned points. 3D is a WebGL point cloud with a free orbital camera plus depth cues that make it actually readable: distance fog, eye-dome lighting (surfaces behind other surfaces go darker, so walls get contours), and a "Floor ±5 m / Whole map" toggle that lights up your floor and ghosts the rest for context. Leave it alone for 15 seconds and the camera slowly orbits so you can read the shape without touching the mouse.[/]

  []Click to inspect and jump. Click any element, in 2D or 3D, to select it and highlight it in the list. For portals and carts it draws the link between their two ends. Click a portal or cart again to jump to its other end (cross-world portals switch to the destination world).[/]

  []Markers, elevators, carts. Drop named waypoints, record an elevator or a rail cart with one button and routes will use them. The list groups itself: one collapsible section per kind, sorted by name. Name a marker Flathill/Generator and it drops into a collapsible Flathill folder with everything sharing that prefix.[/]

  []Auto-detected portals. Teleport once and the portal (entrance and exit) is saved automatically, along with how many times you've used it. Death and respawn aren't counted. "No-portal" zones handle teleport to base items.[/]

  []Routing that learns doors. Automatic A pathfinding over your scanned floor. A closed door reads as a wall, but once you've walked through it, routes go through it. Elevators and carts are built into the routing too.[/]

  []Notes and phone support. A shared notepad synced between PC and phone. The whole UI works over your local Wi-Fi and is touch friendly, and it can run behind a reverse proxy on a sub-path if you want HTTPS or remote access.[/]

  []English and Russian. The interface auto-detects your language and you can switch it in the top bar.[/]

  []Optional Rat Scanner gating. By default the map only scans while you hold the Rat Scanner, so mapping becomes part of the gameplay. Turn it off in one line of config.[/]

  Requirements

  • []Windows[/]

    []UE4SS for Abiotic Factor. Get UE4SS v3. 0. 1-553-gc68f4f7, the second file below the main one. That's the build this mod is tested on, newer experimental ones have crashed the game mid session for people.[/]

    []Python 3. 10+ from python.org (tick "Add Python to PATH" during setup). The server has zero dependencies, standard library only.[/]

    Note: this is a bit more technical than a one-click mod. You drop the mod into UE4SS and run a small local Python server that serves the map to your browser.

    Setup (short)

    • []Install UE4SS for Abiotic Factor.[/]

      []Copy the AFLiveMap folder from the download into ...\AbioticFactor\Binaries\Win64\ue4ss\Mods\[/]

      []Double-click start-server.py (or run: python start-server.py). It finds your game folder and starts the server.[/]

      []Open http://127. 0. 0. 1:8765 in your browser and launch the game.

      The full step by step guide, config options and troubleshooting are on GitHub.

      Source and full guide

      Free and open source (MIT):

      github.com/x1m4x/af-livemap

      Not affiliated with Deep Field Games. Uses UE4SS modding only. Sector map images are not included, the scan map works without them.