Palimpsest

A custom map-layer renderer for WoW Classic Era's World Map — draws whatever artwork a texture pack provides, terrain included.

Description

Palimpsest draws custom map layers on top of Blizzard's illustrated World Map, letting you replace or supplement the default look with any artwork a texture pack provides. No game files are modified.

Palimpsest is only the rendering engine — it ships with no map imagery of its own, on purpose. Terrain (and any other artwork) comes from separately installed texture packs, kept independent so the format stays open to any content, not just one official terrain look.

Official terrain pack is available as separate download: Real Map Terrain (the maintainer's own hand-processed imagery). Either works on its own, and both can be layered together.

Features

• Stacks up to 5 texture-pack layers, reorderable, each independently shown/hidden
• Per-layer offset/scale/opacity calibration, saved persistently
• Toggle by category: zones, cities, continents, world map — independently
• English and Ukrainian UI, switchable live from the settings panel, no /reload needed
• Open pack format — anyone can build and ship their own map artwork as a drop-in pack, no changes to Palimpsest itself required

Usage

Open settings with /palimpsest or the gear icon on the World Map. Install at least one pack — the addon warns in chat and on the panel if none is found, or if an installed pack is missing content it declares.