draw-apex-map-ring-exclusions

Determine where the ring cant go in Apex Legends. Contains a sample app that can be used to draw where the rings cant go.

This is pretty much a proof of concept. This assumes you have some OK computer science skills/know a bit of python.

apex-ring-restrictions

Steps:

Download the TitanFall VPK Tool to extract the vpk. Available here: https://cra0.net/blog/posts/archived/2014/titanfall-vpk-tool/

Open the tool, go into your Apex Legends directory, and look for a vpk folder (example C:\Apex\vpk). This will contain a lot of files, and you can only open the files ending with _dir.

You'll see files for each map. We'll look at the divided moon map (aka broken moon). Open englishclient_mp_rr_divided_moon.bsp.pak000_dir.vpk within TitanFall VPK Tool.

This will load the files in the tool. Now right click on maps/ and hit "Extract". Extract the files to some directory. This will extract quite a few files, and a bunch of bsp_lumps. You can further extract the bsp_lumps using bsp_tool (located here https://github.com/snake-biscuits/bsp_tool).

For ring data, we dont even have to go further than this.

After extracting the data using TitanFall VPK Tool, you'll have a folder containing the maps/ data. Look for the mp_rr_divided_moon_script.ent file. This contains all the coordinates for where rings cannot go.

Example:

{
"editorclass" "info_survival_invalid_end_zone"
"spawnflags" "0"
"gamemode_survival" "1"
"gamemode_freedm" "1"
"gamemode_control" "1"
"gamemode_arenas" "1"
"scale" "1"
"angles" "0 90 0"
"origin" "-6544 -3920 1344"
"script_radius" "2500"
"classname" "script_ref"
}

From here, you can run a grep command to extract all the info_survival_invalid_end_zone coordinates.

grep -B1 -A11 'info_survival_invalid_end_zone' mp_rr_divided_moon_script.ent

Then you can just get the coordinates and the radius:

grep -B1 -A11 'info_survival_invalid_end_zone' mp_rr_divided_moon_script.ent | grep "origin\|script_radius" > invalid_end_zones.txt

Then write a python program to draw this on a image. I've attached my hacked together python app. It requires opencv (pip3 install opencv-python).

Drop a map file (map.png) into the directory. Adjust the map size in the python app to be the image size of the file (or for a bonus, just use a python library to read size).

Run the app and look at the map. If circles are wildly off, or they get worse at the edges, adjust the x/y factor and the x/y offset to account for different map/map geometry.