{"id":218,"date":"2022-02-27T18:13:04","date_gmt":"2022-02-27T18:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cossys.net\/?p=218"},"modified":"2025-07-22T23:15:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T23:15:37","slug":"high-resolution-arcanum-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tagaziel.net\/?p=218","title":{"rendered":"Print-Ready High-Resolution Arcanum Map"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve been an <em>Arcanum<\/em> fan for a long, long time, particularly of the atmosphere the game just oozes out of every pore. Its world map is one of those details that really help drive home that this is a fantastical world inspired by 19th century Victorian England, with its faithfully rendered coastlines and a lot of ornamentation. I liked it so much that I decided to get it printed for putting on the wall (canvas print on a wooden frame). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t find a good high-resolution map on the Internet, so rather than give up, I decided to create my own. After failing to extract it from the game&#8217;s files, I elected to just take in-game shots of the map, then create a composite, clean it up in Photoshop, pass it through an AI enlargement filter, and then add cities and states to the map. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A preview is shown below. The <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cossys.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/arcanum-map.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"actual file\">actual file<\/a><\/strong> is in 8k, and that resolution makes it good enough for a 50&#215;50 cm crisp canvas print. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cossys.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/arcanum-map-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-219\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Enjoy! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been an Arcanum fan for a long, long time, particularly of the atmosphere the game just oozes out of every pore. Its world map is one of those details that really help drive home that this is a fantastical world inspired by 19th century Victorian England, with its faithfully rendered coastlines and a lot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[20,22,24],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-arcanum","tag-games","tag-maps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tagaziel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tagaziel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tagaziel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tagaziel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tagaziel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tagaziel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":590,"href":"https:\/\/tagaziel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions\/590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tagaziel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tagaziel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tagaziel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}