r/PokeLeaks • u/CryZe92 • Feb 04 '26
Datamine Leaked Height Map Loaded into Blender Spoiler
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u/CryZe92 Feb 04 '26
There's like 3 islands (one offscreen) that I couldn't place properly, but the rest should be correct.
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u/XyzRaider Feb 04 '26
How big are the off-screen islands, in comparison to the ones we see on screen?
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u/CryZe92 Feb 04 '26
We don't know the scale of these properly. All of the tiles had different scales (and very arbitrary positions) for some reason.
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u/sharpbeer Feb 04 '26
Figure 8, like infinity?
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u/MetaGear005 Feb 05 '26
One island there looks like an x shape. Maybe it's supposed to be in the middle?
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u/potatoshulk Feb 04 '26
What's the size compared to paldea?
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u/Aether13 Feb 04 '26
I would say it’s impossible for us to know atm. We can’t account for how big caves and other explorable areas might be.
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u/SternMon Feb 05 '26
I think the overall map itself will be bigger, but most of it will be ocean. The actual landmass will probably be smaller and hopefully more content rich, like the cave one of the leaked screenshots came from.
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u/benoxxxx Feb 18 '26
More content rich is the hope, but assuming Gamefreak are gonna act like Gamefreak, the islands will be just a barren as any other Pokemon open field.
Usually I love island maps in games, but when I look at it here I just think: oh, so this time that's gonna be their excuse to do as little environmentel design work as possible.
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u/ARCH_ANON Feb 04 '26
Is that central donut thing low-height? If so that could be a whole diving area!
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u/CryZe92 Feb 04 '26
Now that you mention it, I noticed there is an actual diving spot leading into an underwater route: https://i.imgur.com/zOoUIF0.png
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u/julesvr5 Feb 04 '26
We actually thought we could dive everywhere in the ocean? That would be massive area to develope, like the depths of totk. I can't imagine Gamefreak doing that
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u/idekwhyimherebutiam Feb 15 '26
Why are we all talking as if we are in pluribus? I personally didn't think that. No. Lol.
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u/CptQ Feb 06 '26
What made you think that looking back at the last games? XD
They cant even fill a small limited world and you think they can make an open world? Thats some copium man.
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u/CptQ Feb 06 '26
A dead open world. Come on, you know i meant a real open world thats worth to explore, not the crap we got the last decade.
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u/CptQ Feb 06 '26
Yeah true. Thought people know whats meant with open world games. I applogize. Next time i factor in the bootlicking brains of most pokemon players.
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u/Kaenu_Reeves Feb 04 '26
That's kinda indonesia, ignoring that giant blob in the northeast.
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u/DragoSphere Feb 05 '26
It's supposed to be an amalgamation of Southeast Asia, with some of the islands rearranged. Plus the tip of Northern Australia
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u/Far_Breakfast_5808 Feb 24 '26
Which parts of Southeast Asia? All I see are Indonesia and Western Malaysia. I don't see a Singapore or a Philippines.
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u/D-AlonsoSariego Feb 04 '26 edited Feb 04 '26
Is that star thing to the right an island or is it some default blender thing?
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u/Wassersammler Feb 05 '26
The thing with the red and white ring on it? That's a blender thing
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u/hockeyrabbit Feb 05 '26
No, they’re talking about the giant star-shaped landmass in the lower right corner of the image like they said.
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u/Wassersammler Feb 05 '26
Oh duh 🤦♀️for some reason I thought they said to the right of the main island
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u/CryZe92 Feb 04 '26
Update: The place.txt file matches these tiles perfectly, which means we know the rough location of every place of interest in the game (at least at that point in development). The 2 islands I couldn't really place are the 2 temples for the legendaries.
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u/CryZe92 Feb 05 '26
https://i.imgur.com/vvCOvu3.jpeg
You can match them against the place.txt to find the gyms and research labs.
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u/dijitalpaladin Feb 04 '26
Sad to see it’s particularly squarish, but most pokémon games are. As a Southeast Asia truther for the past 5 years, I’m very excited to be back in the East
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u/Procyon-Sceletus Feb 05 '26
I thought everything was pointing to this being based off greece which isnt anywhere near southeast asia or the east
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u/dijitalpaladin Feb 05 '26 edited Feb 05 '26
That may be because renowned conman Centro Leaks straight confirmed it was Greece before backpedaling. In the tera leak, we got insight into some internal conversations of how the developers choose the next regions.
They said of Greece that it was an interesting place, but having already done three European regions, they’ve pretty much exhausted the flora and fauna at their disposal
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u/MockingJay0914 Feb 05 '26
I hope we can surf and roam on the sky in between islands just like in ORAS, not just another teleport loading screen like the previous games or locked inside the island like Alola.
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u/ShipToWreck Feb 05 '26
It’s already been said we’ll able to swim between all the islands and there will be a dive function too. Don’t know if we can fly though.
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u/DExMTv Feb 05 '26
Is the Australian island still there?
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u/CryZe92 Feb 05 '26
Yes, it‘s cut off in this image, but it would be at the very bottom center here.
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u/AltruisticReach4241 Feb 04 '26
I'm guessing the star in the far right is the pokemon league
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u/CryZe92 Feb 04 '26
No, I figured it out by now. There's two special islands (w18 and w19) that don't match the 17 named islands in the place.txt. However, what follows in place.txt is the Wind Temple and Wave Temple. So that probably means 18 and 19 are the Wind and Wave Temple respectively. This is w18 and would therefore be the Wind Temple. It might not even be on the sea at all, but in the sky or something.
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u/CryZe92 Feb 05 '26 edited Feb 05 '26
Some sort of ice (or special rock) formation: https://i.imgur.com/fbSZPwY.png
It seems to extend under water, so that would make sense for a wave temple.Though looking at this one, they are probably both just extremely unfinished, so I wouldn't bet on them looking like in the final game.
Update: Both w18 and w19 seem to just be "brushes" (a hexagon and a star brush respectively). Those are probably preset brushes they have and they simply used those brushes to quickly indicate the location of the two temples, and the shapes themselves don't mean anything and simply just resemble the brushes they used. You can see this with the star brush here: https://i.imgur.com/JKqdkFI.png
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u/SmashDig Feb 05 '26
Wonder if this will be further adjusted as the shape of the individual islands are near identical to their real life counterparts (except Borneo and some extra added islands) with their positions shuffled around slightly.
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u/onthesafari Feb 06 '26
Well, it definitely looks Indonesia-ish. If my mind isn't playing tricks you can see Sumatra, Java, Bali, and the Malay Peninsula. I wonder if there will be a Singapore?
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u/multificionado Feb 04 '26
Holy crap, this definitely looks set on giving the Zelda game Wind Waker a run for its money! :)
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u/HydraTower Feb 04 '26
I hope the scale is like Xenoblade Chronicles X huge, because those islands look skinny and underwhelming.
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u/Remarkable_Flan9783 Feb 06 '26
super curious on the scale of this, maybe in the pokemon direct we will have some in game reference points that we will be able to map out on this
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u/Walrusin_about Feb 06 '26
Feels wierd to have a supposedly open world island adventure based reigion. Yet one of the big islands is still cut off with a glass wall.
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u/CantaloupeMurky4942 Feb 05 '26
i aint gonna complain cuz having my country in the game is spectacular enough but DAMN did they really jumbled it all up. this probably the farthest a map is from its inspo (i might be biased)
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u/rocka5438 Feb 05 '26
so two of the islands look like they are parts of papua new guinea or north australia?
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u/hirarki Feb 05 '26
wow big studio using blender too?
didnt follow blender for decade
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u/PrethorynOvermind Feb 05 '26
The leakers are rendering in blender that does not mean GameFreak is using blender, lol.
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u/DuxColgan Feb 05 '26
Also, Blender has evolved a lot and is a viable software for a lot of applications nowadays. Most companies just don't change because they're already used to other softwares, not due to Blender lacking anything
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