[HN Gopher] OSRS Map Viewer
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       OSRS Map Viewer
        
       Author : 141205
       Score  : 17 points
       Date   : 2023-07-29 18:02 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (osrs.world)
 (TXT) w3m dump (osrs.world)
        
       | andrewmcwatters wrote:
       | This is absolutely incredible. Someone would have had to know how
       | to or experiment with rendering OSRS level data, but then they
       | went a step further and replicated portions of UI, simulated some
       | basic movement for the NPCs across all spaces, and mapped out
       | their identifiers to link to the OSRS wiki.
       | 
       | Someone had been working on this for a while, and had a specific
       | combination of technical skills and attention to detail to make
       | this happen.
        
         | ThatPlayer wrote:
         | The NPCs that have their unique walking and standing animations
         | seems to have been replicated too. See here:
         | https://osrs.world/?cx=2956.96&cy=6&cz=3363.12&p=-151&y=2047...
         | . OSRS wiki supports lookup by NPC IDs:
         | https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/Special:Lookup?type=npc&i...
         | . So that itself isn't too complicated.
         | 
         | I think the dataset they're using is
         | https://archive.openrs2.org/ . It looks like NPC data might be
         | a part of that. This version has the wrong NPC mappings, and
         | also missing object data:
         | https://osrs.world/?cx=3262.58&cy=8.22&cz=3265.93&p=-244&y=1...
         | 
         | Older Runescape 2 (pre-OSRS) caches have objects but no NPCs.
        
       | bitdivision wrote:
       | OSRS is old school runescape for anyone unfamiliar.
       | 
       | https://oldschool.runescape.com/
       | 
       | Does anyone know if old accounts would still work? From around
       | 2000 ish.
        
         | StevenWaterman wrote:
         | Old accounts will still work on the more modern Runescape, aka
         | Runescape 3. But not on OSRS
         | 
         | To explain in more detail - OSRS was a 2013 re-release of a
         | 2007 backup of the game, after community backlash against a
         | series of unpopular changes. It has then evolved alongside the
         | original game, with its own dev team.
        
           | the_plus_one wrote:
           | To clarify even further, you can technically log into OSRS
           | with old accounts, but none of your stats or gear from back
           | in the day will be there. Everyone started fresh in OSRS when
           | it (re)released in 2013.
        
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       | 1MachineElf wrote:
       | I would really like to know more about what this is, but the app
       | itself isn't very descriptive.
        
         | smusamashah wrote:
         | This looks like a living map of MMO OldSchool RuneScape. And
         | since there is a cache drop down it probably is simulating many
         | versions of a world.
        
       | Operyl wrote:
       | > iOS isn't supported.
       | 
       | Surprising, is it not just using leaflet or something similar for
       | displaying the tiles? Or is it some 3d visualization?
        
         | guwop wrote:
         | It's 3d, doesn't look like any mapping library i know of
        
           | Operyl wrote:
           | Cool, I wasn't sure what it was since I only have an iOS
           | device available to me. My first guess was some leaflet map
           | with tiles of the game map, but this sounds more interesting
           | to me then.
        
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