Is this the Genshin Impact Test Map?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- Far outside the map of Genshin Impact are mysterious plots of land. Let's explore them and see if we can't get to the bottom of their purpose!
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I just love the fact that he breaks the game in every single way possible.
Edit : 1.7k likes? Nice.
ya dk how he is able to find these kind of things
Where there’s a will, there’s a way.
He showed us this one op trick before that he is currently using. And now he's probably gonna milk it till it gets patched.
I assume he's playing on a private server in this video.
Firstly, the spiral abyss floor counter on the map screen says "This round's challenge has not yet started." which (I think) is impossible to encounter normally without playing on a private server.
Secondly, all of his characters are level 1. During normal gameplay I believe it would be very difficult to play much without your characters levelling up naturally.
@@fatefulstars8669The first one is possible if you NEVER started spiral abyss.
Don't know about the second one tho
A lot of these make me think they were testing different terrain mixing techniques and trying to find the best way to blend them with one another for more natural-looking landscaping. The dark terrain is probably a green screen for testing animations (since black would contrast best against basic pale humanoid models).
Would be an amusing explanation for why no-one has black hair or black clothes
I think that the black textureless surface is the default color. After all, black color is usually stored as all zeroes, and in some game engines (such as idTech) when a texture fails to load it is rendered as flat black.
i dont think they need 1000km area for a single animation
@@Yukiwae boss animations maybe? idk
@@Astrophel24 maybee but still no one needs them and these areas should be deleted after testing
It’d be cool if the Inazuma trench was made so eventually we get to dive under the ocean, maybe just in the trench area. Probably just wishful thinking but it’d be cool AF
Looking at the area it covers, that actually would kind of make sense.
Tbh we do deserve a good amount of underwater space in Watatsumi Island cuz that would be so beautiful. Not to mention that underground maps only began from Inazuma???? Chasm came out much later sooooo
There is a huge possibility for areas other than Watatsumi Island if something exists in lore regarding submerged areas. But that also means that we won't be in the elevated region of Fontaine anymore. Which means pure deep sea diving, which means Hoyoverse has to make diving (if not diving at the least the blue stamina for not drowning) possible in the entire teyvat...it's a great deal of work
Sadly, I feel like MHY has preemptively killed a chance of having diving sections outside of Fontaine given how they explained diving in Fontaine lore wise
Already explained in lore. You can't
@@acynicalasianthey could possibly introduce some sort of device that allows us to dive outside of Fontaine
There is actually another one north of Sumeru city, and one to the west of the desert with the strips of alternating textures that I found when I went under the map.
I think it's definitely palettes for the different regions, they could also be test areas for the textures and that's why they're so huge?
It would be convenient to have swatches of terrain for eyedropping and also samples of how they blend together, along with the different audios of footsteps for each.
how big do you think it is?
There's also one north-east of Liyue to Inazuma I think
Lo and behold, Moosashi, Champion of Glitches and Bugs... And Geo Traveler
Unity terrain system uses texture chunks as 4 each
So if you use only one texture it still get memory in RAM for entire chunk of 4
As well as you use 5 it will load 2 chunks
Devs usually testing blending and memory consuption trying to find best solution with minimum texture chunks for current terrain zone
As well it can be used as pallete for region with all premade settings
If we’re calling these “test areas”, there are of these in between monstadt and Fontaine. It’s mostly just black terrain, but there’s some patches and areas not shown in this video. Additionally, there’s a couple of perfect hills (all black) that are a little past the midpoint if you go from monstadt.
As someone who made some basic indie games, I used flat plains to test functions since it's easier to test functions and see if stuff works properly.
So I'm guessing it's the same here, since I never cared to delete those test spaces when I exported my builds.
They were locked out of bounds so I didn't bother.
Probably the same?
I think they are testing areas for terrain blending.
Placing a giant turtle underneath at the border would have made all lore masters speculate
Moosashi, please never stop making these videos, you're the best dude
It's nice seeing these. It's always so fascinating out-of-bounds
At this rate blud gonna reach Celestia before Natlan even released 🗿
😂
damn that inazuma stretch from 2.0 brought back memories. i traversed that plane for my alt and it was painful lmao.
"Why does the game take so much space?" Developers just being lazy and leaving huge unused lands:
Maybe it's the sea of dandelion, where the 2 NPC parents outside of monstadt walls talk about their kids dreaming the sea of dandelion
Or
Maybe not idk, it's just a wild guess
If it's a testing ground, then all characters have at least once walked there
Was kind of wondering if the furrowed Mondstadt area was from Dawn Winery, but the pattern under the grapes is just dirt in game.
Is most definitely just testing, I've been doing some out-of-bounds exploring in Fontaine and you can find similar places, there is even one with a second Emperor Of Fire and Iron, also you can re-enter Mary-ann's house and Nice To Meet You again
A pallet, or swatch area as I call it, seems very plausible. When I'm working on a digital painting I will designate an area and layer of my canvas for little swatches of color so I can easily go back and select previously used colors. It helps keep my overall palette uniform in color design. Since this is a game that is always being developed and added to it would make sense that they would hide these swatches in the out of bound areas and not bother removing them for the live versions every time they exported a new version. In my work I just make the swatch layer invisible before exporting the final piece. I may need that swatch palette again.
Its definitely a test map
2:30 especially when you're painting terrain with several different textures, you'd have to make sure the transition between one kind of terrain to another feels seamless
Tldr: Probably preloaded terrain textures for faster loading.
It seems to me that they used this for faster loading. I've seen this technique implemented by devs even in older games, just like how certain objects in Resident Evil 4 (2005) exist out of the playable map, but were seemingly put there deliberately (e.g. certain healing items, obtainable documents, ammunition). The explanation is that it would be faster to render objects into the map if there is already a preexisting copy of it loaded up that it can duplicate instead of going back to secondary storage to reload the texture; just don't make it visible to the players for immersion (e.g. place it outside of the accessible map). It could be that hoyo put those textures in that outer area of the map to make those terrain textures get drawn faster when needed (e.g. teleporting to Windrise, drawing the ground textures while walking towards the area). Feel free to correct me tho, I'm no expert and I could have misinterpreted the explanation that I got.
I'm actually very familiar with the Resident Evil 4 (2005) stuff! Is that what those out-of-bounds supply caches were used for? I had always assumed they were put there for testing maps. If what you say is indeed how it works, it makes sense for the ammo/items, because they are right beside the entryways to maps.
But for documents? If I recall, those are usually near where the actual read trigger is. For example, there's one about Blue Medallions below the map of the farm, but I believe it is positioned directly below the read trigger, not beside the map's entrances.
Ngl "The Inazuma Trench" sounds pretty cool
Legend says that somewhere in the land beyond paimon there exists a chest to fulfill the needs of all playete
Ah, no wonder where all the Giga bytes are going. Here I was thinking it was the ridiculously large pre-rendered cutscenes.......
now this explain the over 100gb size of the game files xD
Ah yes, the dark sea continent where the evil gods reign/j
Bro made Mihoyo crying
So that's where my game storage went
Man took "Traveller" a bit too literal
You should do a picture edit, place a chest there and post it on offical interactive map just for trolling.
This is what i assume a color texture test, they have these colors probably for comparison and there could be natlan near that undiscovered area, just a assumption (this is a edited first)
this indeed seems to be test maps
0:20
seems to be a test map how terain blends with other terain
and then check the randomized "terrain seam" of this
making sure it isn't to straigh or aggresive
when something like this is repeated it is safe to asume diffrent results are expected from the devs
_this count for the other stripes of land you see in the video_
0:59
this might be used to test shadow casting
_i could't much explain this dark land terain either otherwise_
1:37
this seems to test diffrent terain types and their effects when walked on
sound, if they leave footprint, or terain effects where walking on it gives it a side effect like slippery ice or how sand could slow you down
this is verry common for game dev
games like mario 64 DS still have test maps like these remaining
2:14
this seems how diffrent terain blends with each
and see how corners of the "terain seam" behave and how paths/roads/patches of terain interact with eachother
_completly diffrent purpose then the striped lands_
3:56
this could be testing of the fog
like color and thinkness/view distance of this
4:01 this is prob the testing of slopes and how characters interact with it
like at what angle you start to slide down
6:04
this looks like a test map for color blending with terain, in this case grass
like giving grass the icy tint to it, all squeres are still the grass texture but with a diffrent color
6:45
there is not much i can explain/gues here
other then testing some new terain textures/blends
7:08 this seems to be a test of the designers like splashing a diffrent terain/color on the terain
_i do not know this one either_
*before you ask:* i'm not a game dev, but after following removed/unused content, i picked up some things
and just took a better look at what it COULD be
So this is what my 80gb are being wasted on huh 💀
the black land, i’ve seen before. i like to call it an abyss though cuz it’s funner to say that
imagine how much space u can free with these removed
all those planes shown in this video would be less than 100 MB or less than 200 MB at max. It could be used as preloading all the textures faster which explains why terrains are loaded quicker than buildings, furniture, character textures. idk how game engines work so idk why those are there. But I do know it would not make any difference by removing those planes
I wonder if these areas add to the file size bloat.
Is that where all my storage space went
when your realize why genshin takes up so much space in your device
Plot twist, that's Natlan.
Also, the 3 random terrain ones are for sure test places, and as for the 2 near Seirai Island, i'm pretty sure Inazuma was supposed to have 8 islands, 2 of wich got scrapped around 1.5-2.0 in favor of Enkanomiya.
I loved visiting all these places lmao
What kind of music plays when you’re out of bounds? Especially when you’re really far. Does it just continue the music of whatever nation you’re closest to, or does it turn off?
GENSHIN FARLAND
GENSHIN FARLAND
GENSHIN FARLAND
Minecraft Impact
These Extra unopened layer are the cause for downloading extra Gbs in the game
I'd say it's to test blending
Would it be possible to find boss areas without teleporting by going out of bounds I wonder
I hope these areas aren't making the game too much larger. I mean, they make so many things temporary out of concert for storage space. It'd be ironic to store gigabytes of data for things the vast majority of players are intended never to even know about.
No wonder why it takes to much space 😅
7:11
Do you really think they'd go out of their way to delete something that was supposed to be impossible to find?
So is *this* why the file size is so dang big?
i bet becuase of this my genshin stopped working on school computer
And that's why the game need a lot of space 🤨 xd
I've located Celestia's (approximate) current location 😀
you should try to go to quince village
I just realized his Xiao is Lv 1
I wonder if these exists in Enkanomiya or The Chasm? Admittedly if I recall how to do the glitch correctly it doesn't work in those areas does it?
OH I FOUND TGAT TOO
I used to come here to glitch to inazuma
i also believe they serve palette-like purposes, especially for blending the terrain types, but i can't help but wonder why there is just, so much terrain for it,,, i have limited game development knowledge as im no game designer, but with a vaguely rounded understanding of game design, should there not be like a preset brush system in their engine? other than to blend, why is there so much plot out there,,, unless it's like a preset square that they can start shaping things of off? but the layout is so strange and the fact they kept them, i really don't know
oh thats the mare jivari
Naaaah, they got a minecraft farm in the back!?
Hello, is it possible to access varanara locked places on low ar? Without unlocking the quest itself? Just maybe.
Why didn't they just remove it from the live version of the game when they're done even though nobody is supposed to go out there or find them... Interesting nonetheless...
I've found this in private servers during 2.7 😽
I mean they had to have a test area so maybe your correct
Omg u really reached the end of teyvat🎉😮
this explains the huge GB of data 🎉😂
Looks like a giant farm
Does the bug still work?
Hi, how about you make a video explaining every useful glitch you use like the one that allows you to trespass paimon barrier
Does he have a video detailing a way to get to the Inazuma trench?
If Hoyoverse removed all of the out-of-bounds areas of land, the game would not take up more than 30 gb of storage 💀
Nahh imagine hoyo hires you as their bug fixer at this point
Na bro just discovered Natlan
We've had lore archeologists of this game but Moosashi over here is the real archeologist of teyvat, surveying the continent.
If there are theorists in Genshin Impact, then there are also practitioners like Moosashi.
geography
You surely haven't seen other TH-camrs making videos like this too.
As a game dev, I’d say it’s probably an area to test texture blending with custom heightmap :) hence the strips and path to see how transition from one texture to another looks like
That's exactly what I thought!
personally I would put a sign or something that’s just “how did you get here?” if I worked at hoyoverse
*new achievement unlocked*
Hoyo: hehe Nice To Meet You
Guys I think he found the Mare Jivari
Mare Jivari is in Natlan, far in the west of Sumeru desert.
@@tanveshkaviskar442its joke
No he found the Dandelion Sea
I'm assuming this might have been used to test texture blending. weird :p
Not only that, this might be the only real renderer on the map to make it load on cellphones, so the "low poly buildings" might have something to do with this fields being rendered all time and terrain never failing to render, while buildings do sometimes.
When I was playing with Hammer (Source engine's map making tool), my screen's resolution is only 768p. I didn't have enough screen to see all the details, so I broke the map into small chunks.
For each chunk, I zoom in, put details, then zoom out, select the whole chunk to paste into the main map.
I think a similar situation applies here: there are multiple people on the map team, each one is responsible for one chunk. Those "test map/pallete map" area is placeholder for one of said chunk. When the detailed map is done, they just copy-pase the whole thing into the placeholder area.
Actually it makes sense
that means dude just discovered region that will get map expansions or temporary events like the islands we had
@@leandroTRA or it just means nothing
It was just test area that's all
I imagine Hoyoverse seeing Moosashi doing this stuff and thinking: "What we can put in the game to Moosashi to find without a reason?"
not gonna lie, I feel like the reason they named the quest area "Nice To Meet You" was just because of these glitchers like him, xD
@@Pixelat1onno, we can actually see that line of text during world quests.
@@Pixelat1onwait what are you talking about what quest
@@Brownyanfontaine side quest
Ig it was ancient colour or something
AWESOME!! this definitely seems like an environmental test area, as for what they were testing, so far i can think of:
-footfall sfx
-different levels of intensity of the grass blending into other ground types
-memory load with alternating ground types over a large area
-random shapes to test ground texture brushes
-possibly also testing how characters and props' colours blend/stand out against ground textures
I swear this man always amazed me with those glitches, keep going moosashi!!😭
I like to think that maybe those are textures used for either testing or quickly patching any texture-less terrain.
The dark texture can sometimes be found underneath the map. I believe they are used to give certain underground areas that darkness effect.
They use the dark matte texture to surround underground manmade or cave structures so that you can't accidentally see the sky box (which might be a very bright color with the ambient lighting) through seams in geometry or by swinging the camera through a wall accidentally
Places where you can see a bright light streaming through a hole in the ceiling are usually a baked-in light emitter in or right above the geometry and this is very evident in places like that in the underground chasm, for example
If it is a testing area, it is obvious that such terrain patterns could have been created to test different types of terrain mixtures. Apparently, each terrain zone is like a square (a chunk) and when placed next to each other, it generates a mixture of terrains according to the game code, giving a more natural look when changing terrain and making it easier to build terrains for Mihoyo designers (map, terrain, texture etc) 👌✌️
This just reminds of the shenanigans I'd do in Minecraft before lmao. There would usually be one part of my map where I'd be testing out odd builds here and there and then forgetting to remove them because I don't feel like removing all of it as this was prior to me knowing about commands (or if I do remove them it still looks obvious I did something at that part of the map). It's actually interesting all this stuff gets left behind. I expected that the developers might have their own program independent of the game to test things out just to avoid leaving stuff behind by accident, or at least check if they cleaned everything up before finalizing the next version. That or they just didn't expect people to find this stuff.
One of the best genshin TH-camr.... Especially one who is doing something different... Keep going
So that's where all the 23gb mobile size went to
Imagine being a dev and seeing other people see your mess
7:21 he actually reached the end of the entire teyvat map 💀
When I look at these, I am reminded of the out of bounds area outside the walls of Botw's Trial of the sword. Large stretches of grassy fields, a deep trench with void out zones, an area with wet floors and one with winds. If you get close to some domains, you can change the weather! Other domains are surrounded with water you can swim in, and sometimes it has strange effects like healing or freezing. Seeing it was fascinating!
As someone that plays around with Unreal Engine, to me it looks like a simple testing area to see the tile noise and stochastic blending of different textures (in layman terms, making a texture less visible than the other and trying to see if it still works well when putting them on the map) Because each of the random shapes and sizes has different texture effects like how shiny/matte/dark/light it usually looks in game, which they might test in order to keep visual cohesion while using those effects to make texturing a lot faster.
The trench might just be leftover garbage data? It's just a flat plane that projects a texture it's either there so something in the sea doesn't break or the 7mb tops it occupies in the game files never got deleted.
In dumb human translation pls? I wanna understand it 😂
I think the weird shapes in the first test area mightve been testing for texturing around buildings, like dirt around houses for example, especially that one almost round-ish shape, it really feels like you can plop down a building on it
oh my god, months ago I remember sailing in my boat to the huge water area on the map, and then suddenly I fell out of the map and landed in one of these weird terrains. I had like a 20 minute video of me just exploring the weird terrain, but I scrapped it because I figured I didn't wanna have a huge vid like that on my phone due to storage space 😅
this happened before sumeru's desert was released, so idk if it's been fixed yet or not... or if it was just a one time glitch
I assume that the massive lined flat surfaces are either copy-pasted from one of the first they made to simply fill the area for measuring and positioning. The barcode-like structure may have helped establish the actual size of the area. Alternatively, these are generated through miHoYo's internal development tools, possibly using the highest frequency of automated terrain changes on a singular axis.
As for the spot east of Mondstadt, that's most likely a testing ground for terrain interactions, effects, and transitions. The orderly squares are "catwalks" to test interactions between terrain types and objects (including Players, NPC's, inanimate objects and monsters). The randomly drawn walkways are testing how the dev tools apply the transitional effect between path and grass in avariety of sizes, shapes, and turns.
In fact, the jagged line between the grass and the black floor is strong evidence towards that - that's how a transition looks with no terrain graphics available. It's something basically any developer does when mapping is supposed to be dynamic and automated - test whether the tools work correctly. And the massive stretch of flatness is likely used to test animated map details, like grass and flowers, to see if they animate and react properly, and possibly special effects. Though I'm really stumped by the sheer size of it.
Then there's the big crossing near Watatsumi. That might simply be an "area marker" to divide the map sections with simple visuals, possibly to test certain global effects present only in certain areas as well as their deactivation upon leaving the boundary, or to mark areas for specific groups in the dev team to work on.
It's really cool to see that stuff at all, as it reminds me that certain steps apply to any developer, no matter the experience, team size, or budget.
In between mondstadt and Fontaine and above Liyue and sumeru there's a place underneath the mountain with a dark floor and random occasional path circles
I'm curious, I don't know if you already cover this topic already but is the limited map like GAA and Bottleland just got deleted after the events are over or stored in some of those out of bound areas? 🤔
maybe some of these patches were maps like GAA and bottleland after they got deleted... 🤔
Since they're in a separate "world" like enkanomiya and the underground chasm, even if they weren't removed, they wouldn't be reachable anyway
Dudeee I remember the striped map! If im correct, the same design is located when you try to glitch from liyue to inazuma from under the sea. If im not mistaken, I think it teleports you somewhere too!
It used to teleport, but no longer does. It was perfectly level with the map's void out zone, until the release of Sumeru, which moved said zone much, much farther below. This is because of all those underground areas in Sumeru.
@@Moosashi Awesome :) I appreciate your content btw. Keep the good work up!
This is why Genshin takes a lot of memory
and/or space
Hmm, now I wanna check and see if this terrain is in the 2019 CBT 1 beta