I'm having the same problem. I have no idea why they insist on publishing these very small, very low-resolution, pre-gridded maps in official .pdf material.
With the advantage of .pdf's, I really don't understand why the maps aren't larger, in higher resolution, and with the grids as a seperate layer on top of the maps.
There's simply no excuse. Playing in virtual tabletops, the maps as-is are completely useless to me.
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When you have the pdf try to copy the map and do an image search for it.
Sometimes the artist puts up the images on their personal homepage and they would of course not include the grid. (Or just look up who the artist is and google for him).I know that Damien Mammoliti does some Starfinder work and posted maps on his artstation page but apparently he was not involved in Attack of the Swarm or did not post that ones.
Interesting... I'll have to check that out.
I too, am generally disappointed with the low res and baked in grid of the maps in the PDFs, when obviously the art of the map exists somewhere out there in the world that doesn't have artifacts all over it.
Getting particularly large maps to align just right in roll 20 is a headache, and it looks awful if you don't match it just so.
When you have the pdf try to copy the map and do an image search for it.
Sometimes the artist puts up the images on their personal homepage and they would of course not include the grid. (Or just look up who the artist is and google for him).I know that Damien Mammoliti does some Starfinder work and posted maps on his artstation page but apparently he was not involved in Attack of the Swarm or did not post that ones.
I actually contacted him quite some time ago, and he informed me that there is nothing he can do, it's all Paizo's.
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The bigger problem is, at least for me the low resolution of the pdf maps. I can't simply understand who puts a 400px map into a digital product. I wanted to print out a map from the last book and use it as a satellite image (A3 Format) but thanks to the low resolution it's not possible. :(
Same goes for using the maps from the AP for a VTT...
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I also have to say that the maps are sometimes a little bit "off-topic" - the city map in the last book looks more like from a small intact city then a capital city devastated by a swarm invasion, several month of swarm presence and a shot down orbital station crashed near by.
I would especially loved to see the station crashed near the city and maybe also be a part of this book (since it was such a cataclysmic event in the first book).
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