Overview

Maps (or dungeons, or nests) in Dragon Nest reside in /mapdata/grid/ as individual directories. The names of the directories are internal names, as referenced in resource/ext/maptable.dnt, column _ToolName1. Do note that letter casing will not match.

Layout

Map directories have the following structure:

• %DIR_NAME%/
  • %DIR_NAME%.dds - Minimap texture
  • %DIR_NAME%_map.dds - Map texture
  • gridinfo.ini - Grid Information
  • 0_0/ - Zone (0, 0) data
    • alphatable.ini - Terrain texture blending
    • colbuild.ini - Colbuild (unknown)
    • decalinfo.ini - Terrain decals
    • default.ini - Zone definition
    • eventareainfo.ini - Event area info (unknown)
    • grasstable.ini - Grass placement
    • height.ini - Terrain heightmaps
    • heightattribute.ini - Height attributes
    • navigation.ini - Navigation mesh
    • propinfo.ini - Prop placement
    • sectorsize.ini - Map size
    • soundinfo.ini - Sound
    • textable.ini - Texture groups
    • trigger.ini - Event triggers
    • triggerdefine.ini - Event trigger declarations
    • water.ini - Water tuning

While it appears that there’s some mechanism for multiple zones per map, it is currently not being used (only ever see 0_0).