Luhua Pool/Design
Last updated 2024-01-17
Huanglong Chapter
"Travels Afar" Scenic Spot Collaboration Documentary - Huanglong Chapter
As the only perfectly preserved plateau wetland in China, Huanglong's complex and diverse ecosystem has provided excellent reference material for us. Its mysterious and magnificent multicolored pools also served as the inspiration for Luhua Pool.
How to Make an Open World "Real"
Haidi, Environment Art Team Lead: Making an open world game feel realistic starts with making sure that it consistently follows laws in its very own complete, closed ecosystem creating a little world that functions by itself. You are a traveler visiting this little world. Whether a game's ecosystem is successful or not isn't necessarily something players will notice at first but it certainly impacts their game experience over a long period of time. So, when we created the environment of Genshin Impact, we adhered to a comprehensive system of laws to design the climate, vegetation, and creatures of each region as well as the cultures and civilizations within these environments. This makes everything come together as one whole — connected by a complete framework.
Bu Yiding, Environment Concept Artist: When gathering materials for creative inspiration, the scenery of Huanglong really left a deep impression on us. The iconic travertine waterfalls became the model for Liyue's Luhua Pool. This kind of dreamlike essence makes the style of the region quite distinct. We also found that Huanglong's high altitude and ecological diversity provided an excellent reference for our game.
Sun Haiqin, Chinese National Geography Expert: I'm very familiar with Huanglong because I used to go there to conduct field work almost every year. Although Huanglong is located at a very high altitude, its biological diversity has been protected very well. Some rare, protected plant species grow there such as orchids, katsura trees, and snow lotus. There are also some rare animals. You can find pandas and snow leopards in high-altitude regions.
Liu Yan, Environment Concept Artist: The Huanglong Nature Reserve is a kind of rich haven for precious wild flora species. We used Huanglong as one of the blueprints for the overall planning of Liyue's ecosystem. Liyue's climate has characteristics similar to that of China's southwest with four distinct seasons, including warm springs and cool autumns. The design of Liyue is influenced by the Geo element with scenery based on warm colors. For Liyue's vegetation, we used poplars as creative reference. At higher elevations in Liyue are pagoda trees while bamboo, plum trees, and ginkgo trees grow on the plains and riverbanks. There are wild creatures often found among the rocky cliffs, like cranes and lizards as well as various crabs and fish in rivers. This combination of more realistically designed species and more imaginative flora and fauna forms the unique ecosystem of Liyue.
Haidi, Environment Art Team Lead: My personal favorite thing to do is sit down by the waterfalls underneath a sky at sunset as red as autumn leaves, listening to the flowing water and chirping birds. It makes one forget about everything else and just get lost in that moment. The entire creative team, from early white-box testing to concept art design, then to resources production and map editing by level artists and also the final overall building of the environment — we spent one year on all of this. Looking at the final product, we basically met our initial expectations but there are still many aspects that can be improved. Designing Liyue and Mondstadt has brought our entire team many lessons and much experience. I'm sure we will be able to bring everyone even better creations in the future.
Bai Xinggui, Huanglong Nature Reserve - Deputy Director, Marketing Office: There are 3,000 pools at Huanglong nestled in a random yet graceful pattern amongst the snowy peaks. I hope this cooperative project with Genshin Impact conveys to players all over the world our shared commitment to environmental protection and shows the natural beauty preserved by such commitment. After going to visit so many incredible scenic landscapes, I still have a hope. I hope that the vivid ecological environments in Genshin Impact not only add to the open world experience for players but also inspire everyone to go visit nature themselves, as well as protect nature.
Huanglong National Park Photos
Genshin Impact Photos at the Famous Huanglong National Park
Are we in Sichuan or Teyvat!? A Geo Statue of The Seven, Geoculus, and Teleport Waypoint have appeared amongst these colorful limestone pools and waterfalls.
Let's admire the magnificent scenery of this heavenly "Jade Pool"~
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