PicSouls BetterMap

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.