Apex Companion

This Python project tracks player death and down positions in Apex Legends matches and generates a detailed heatmap on a full-scale map. By analyzing past games, players can identify high-risk areas, improve their gameplay strategies, and learn from their positioning mistakes.

Getting stared

Prerequisites

1. Python 3.12.5
2. Tesseract

Installation

1. Download the latest tesseract installer from here,
2. Install tesseract to a tesseract folder next to the ApexCompanion.py,
3. Install all python dependencies using the requirements.txt file (pip install -r requirements.txt)

Usage

Currently Apex Companion can only be used using the command line like in the example below.

python ApexCompanion.py [options]

It has a few modes of operation which can be selected using the following command line arguments:

• -t or --tracker: Tracks your game state and creates screenshots of your death / down positions. Usage:

python ApexCompanion.py --tracker true

• -s or --source: Creates screenshots of your death / down positions from a given video file. Usage:

python ApexCompanion.py --source [path_to_file]

• -g or --generate: Generates a heatmap from the generated screenshots on the given map. Usage:

python ApexCompanion.py --generate true

• --debug: Enables debug mode for testing / outputting more information to the command line.

python ApexCompanion.py --debug true [options]