PicSouls BetterMap

A real map of the island.

The stock world map is a stylised illustration — fine at a glance, but hard to read when you are

actually trying to find a road, a turnoff, or a building. This replaces it with a photographic

map of the real terrain, at the highest resolution the engine allows.

Roads, junctions, runway markings, buildings, coastline and terrain all appear as they actually

are in the world, because the map is the world — photographed from above.

Captured against game version 0. 7. 19 (Build 1104) — the map matches the world as it stands

in that build. It will keep working on later versions; if the developers reshape roads or add

buildings, those changes simply will not appear on the map until it is re-captured.

What you get

• []The full world map (the M key) replaced with a 16384 x 16384 photographic map[/]

  []Real roads and junctions you can actually navigate by[/]

  []Terrain, coastline and elevation shading that match what you see out the windscreen[/]

  []No gameplay changes of any kind — this is purely the map image[/]

  How it was made

  It is an aerial survey, flown inside the game. A scripted orthographic camera was teleported

  across a 73 x 73 grid — 5,329 individual captures — photographing the island from directly

  overhead. Those frames were then stitched into one mosaic roughly 95,000 pixels across,

  colour-corrected to remove the per-frame exposure differences that would otherwise leave a visible

  grid of seams, and downsampled to the final map texture.

  16384 x 16384 is not a stylistic choice — it is a hard Direct3D texture dimension limit. This is

  as sharp as the game can display.

  Installation

  • []Download and unzip[/]

    []Drop PicSoul_BetterMap_P.pak into:

    ...\steamapps\common\Motor Town\MotorTown\Content\Paks\[/]

    []Launch the game and press M[/]

    To uninstall, delete the file. Nothing else is touched.

    Compatibility

    This mod replaces exactly one texture asset (T_WorldMap_Jeju) and

    contains no code, blueprint or gameplay changes. It will not conflict with anything except another

    mod that replaces the same map texture.

    It is a client-side visual change — it affects only what you see on your own screen, works on

    multiplayer servers without the server needing anything installed, and gives no gameplay advantage

    beyond a map you can actually read.

    Notes

    • []131 MB download, 256 MB once unzipped. That is the texture itself — there is no way around it at this resolution.[/]

      []The minimap is unchanged; this replaces the full map screen only.[/]

      []Map icons, waypoints and markers are the game's own and work exactly as before.[/]

      []Accurate as of 0. 7. 19 B1104. A game update does not break the mod — at worst the map becomes

      slightly out of date where the world changed.[/]

      Permissions

      Feel free to use the map image in your own projects — server websites, Discords, tools. A credit

      is appreciated but not required. Please do not re-upload the mod itself to other sites.