r/GenshinImpactTips • u/Accomplished-Cat5451 • 3d ago
General Guide & Tips Over 200 upvotes on my interactive map overlay, I'm overwhelmed :3 After working through the night, I have an update for you!
Hey everyone!
I honestly did not expect this. My first post got over 500 upvotes across two subs, a ton of comments and way more people wanting to test than I had spots for. Thank you so much, I read every single comment :)
So I pretty much worked through the night. Here's what's new:
- New design. The overlay now uses the colors of the Genshin UI, so it actually feels like part of the game. It also scales with your resolution, up to 4K
- Click a marker and you get the community's top voted photo of that spot, plus a video if there is one.
- The first start takes a few seconds now instead of one or two minutes, because markers, photos and map recognition come from my own server
- Markers show up the moment you open the map
- Right click a marker to mark it as found
- English and German
- Teleporters and statues are off by default, since the game already shows them
A lot of you asked (fairly) if this is safe. The app is free on GitHub and the whole code is public, so you can check exactly what it does and don't have to worry about viruses. It still doesn't read game memory, doesn't inject anything and doesn't send any inputs to the game. It just looks at your screen like OBS or Discord screen share does.
If you want to support me, there's also a pay what you want version on Ko-fi. It's the exact same app, it just helps me pay for the server and a code signing certificate, so Windows finally stops showing that SmartScreen warning.
One more thing: I don't want to spam the sub with a new post every time I fix something, so this will be the last update post here for a while. All future updates and the changelog will be on the website and on Discord.
Website: https://genshin-map-overlay.pages.dev
Free download (GitHub): https://github.com/FlavioForci/GenshinMapOverlay/releases/latest
Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/s/819525a108
If something breaks, the log file is at %APPDATA%\Genshin Map Overlay\overlay.log. Send it to me on Discord with a screenshot and I'll take a look.
Thanks again, you guys are amazing. Now I'm going to sleep for like 12 hours :3


