Hidden Interiors Universe

The Hidden Interiors Universe is an area within the game that contains all of the interiors of buildings and houses in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. All of the game's interiors are located very high in the sky, past the height limit, and they are organized into different sections. All of the interiors of the game are located in the Hidden Interiors Universe.

Description[]

Whenever the player walks into a yellow bouncing ENEX marker to enter a home or building, the player is transported to the corresponding interior within the Interiors Universe. Whenever the player is inside an interior, he is inside the Hidden Interiors Universe. If the player finds a way to exit the interior without going through the door, and he drops down to the ground, the whole world will be invisible.

List of Interiors[]

Even though the Interior Universe is a place itself, it contains many markers that allow the player to enter another place or hidden interior in the state of San Andreas.

In GTA San Andreas there are 150 hidden interiors located in 18 different universes, or as they are called, heavens.

Heaven A[]

Ganton Gym is the start of the hidden interior. The player simply needs to get a jetpack and just fly through the roof near the door.
Diner
Well Stacked Pizza
Victim
El Quebrados Police Station
Madd Dogg's Crib
Crack Den
Vank Hoff Hotel
Burning Desire House
Many Burglary houses can also be seen.

Heaven B[]

Heaven C[]

Heaven D[]

Heaven E[]

Liberty City
Sub Urban
Warehouse
Ammu-nation
Ten Green Bottles
Doherty Garage
Caligula's Palace
Burglary House
Denise Robinson's House
Shamal
Sweet Johnson's House
Sindacco Abattoir
Safehouse
Wu Zi Mu's Apartment
The Welcome Pump
Hyman Memorial Stadium appears in Vice City but does not appear in San Andreas.

Heaven F[]

Burger Shot
San Fierro Police Headquarters
The Four Dragons Casino and the Janitor room appears as well.
RC Battle Ground
24-7
Motel Room

Heaven G[]

Heaven H[]

Jim's Sticky Ring
Alhambra
Tattoo Parlor in San Fierro
Sherman Dam Generator Hall

Heaven I[]

24-7
Tattoo Parlor in Los Santos

Heaven J[]

Gallery139 — The entrance of the hidden interior universe in the Jefferson Motel.

Heaven K[]

Heaven L[]

Heaven M[]

Heaven N[]

Heaven O[]

Heaven P[]

Heaven Q[]

Heaven R[]

Entrances[]

There are various methods for exiting an interior and being able to explore the Hidden Interiors Universe.

The easiest method of entering the universe is through the Ganton Gym in Los Santos. The ceiling above the entrance of the gym is not solid, and the player can obtain a Jetpack and fly through the nonsolid area and enter the Interiors Universe.

In the Prickle Pine Safehouse in Las Venturas, the ceiling area above the front door is unsolid. The player must activate the Jump Higher cheat, because this particular interior is higher than the game's aircraft height limit, rendering the Jetpack useless. Then the player must jump towards the door, and they will go through the ceiling.

Inside the Jefferson Motel, there is a skylight in one of the lobbies that get shattered by the SWAT Team in the mission Reuniting The Families. After this, the skylight remains open. The one can jump through the skylight and enter the Interiors Universe by activating the Jump Higher cheat, jumping onto the potted plant on one side of the lobby, and then jumping through the skylight. If done correctly, the one will jump through the skylight and appear on top of the room.

Inside the Atrium in Downtown Los Santos, if the player enters it, then gets a pistol and aims it forward whilst walking backward, the player will be able to "ghost" through the front door and enter the Interiors Universe. Another method is to park a vehicle in front of the door

Inside the maintenance room in Caligula's Palace, there is a small open-air vent that was used in the mission Breaking The Bank At Caligula's, in which CJ dropped grenades through the vent to knock out the security guards in the room below. The vent remains open after this mission. With some difficulty, the player can jump through the vent and appear in the Hidden Interiors Universe.

Gallery[]

Trivia[]

The interior universe contains many places and interiors. Most of them are used in the game, but others are not. One such example is a warehouse, which was never seen in any mission in GTA San Andreas. There are many beta interiors within the game.
The color of the sky inside the Interiors Universe usually depends on the time of the day.
Many unused, deleted versions of common interiors are found in the interior world, such as a few unused 24/7s, 3 Brothels, an Ammunation with two floors and a safehouse.
Most interiors are in the sky, but some are located inside their actual buildings or under the ground, some of these include The Welcome Pump, Abandoned AC Tower, Sherman Dam Generator Hall, Lil' Probe Inn, Atrium, CJ's garage in Doherty, the Area 69 interior and both cutscene rooms inside the Four Dragons Casino.
A small section of snowy Liberty City appears in the Saint Mark's Bistro mission in GTA San Andreas. Outside of this mission, the location can be accessed via a non-solid section of the Ganton gym.
Dropping down from any interior in the sky will cause the player to fall for about one minute and will eventually hit San Andreas and be wasted. Alternatively, the player may also fall into the water.
A handful of interiors, such as the Atrium, are special because their respective buildings have windows on them, which the one can see through. However, to achieve this, game designers had to place the interior of the building inside the actual building and render the immediate area surrounding the building to a certain radius away from it. For example, in the Atrium, if the player is in the interior and they look through one of the large windows, they may see the street in front of the interior, along with a few buildings, trees and objects in their respective places. However, the player may notice that they cannot see beyond a certain point. This is because a small section of Los Santos surrounding the Atrium is still rendered around the Atrium, so it can be visible if the player looks outside, for a touch of realism. However, this method was not used for designing all interiors in San Andreas, because they are located in the sky, and as a result, most of the interiors, such as the Johnson House and Burger Shot, have windows that the one cannot see through.
GTA San Andreas is not the only game that uses interiors. Other GTA games that use interiors are GTA Vice City, GTA Vice City Stories, GTA Liberty City Stories, and GTA IV.
A trick that requires cars float and a parachute can get you past the height limit so liberty city as well as all other interiors are accessible without commands or mods so long as you can gain access to a interiors particular universe doherty garage is a good staging point as it has a garage to save cars to do the trick
A good way at revealing the true location of the player on the map is to use the recruit anyone cheat if NPCs are around also if you ever get lost on the ground you can use the above method with cops by using the add stars cheat as they still respond
- Another detail reveals if the interior is located over a city or a county: when the player exits an interior, they'll usually see a plane fly in the sky. If it is over a city, a passenger plane (Andromada or AT-400) will be seen, while if it is over the countryside it will be a regular plane (such as Rustlers or Cropdusters), the location of the actual building won't affect the spawning.
It is possible to start missions while in the Hidden interiors universe (other than those inside the casinos), the red markers will be in their normal locations and will trigger the mission when stepped on, but they will be invisible.
- However, it won't work in all heavens. For example, the Ganton Gym heaven will not allow you to start missions. The Atrium and Caligula's Casino heavens are part of the heavens that will allow you to do so.
- The normal world will not be loaded once the mission starts (except if the cutscenes or a part of the mission take place in an interior).
- If the normal world does get loaded, it will still be glitched, as the ground will not be solid if you go too far away from the mission characters. Finally, the entire map will be unsolid (except for the water) once the mission is finished, causing CJ to fall into Blue Hell forever.
  - The only ways to stop the cycle of falling into Blue Hell is either the Jetpack cheat (must be used before the end of the final cutscene, as it won't work while CJ is falling) or the Suicide cheat ("GOODBYECRUELWORLD")
  - When the world is in this unsolid state, it is possible to fly all the way to the interiors with the jetpack by flying to Caligula's Casino, for an unknown reason you'll be able to fly over the height limit if you take off from this spot. However, the interiors will still be invisible, though you'll be able to hear the music coming from them or see pickup items present in them.
If the player starts a fire in an interior, the firefighters will still respond once the player gets outside (with the yellow marker) as long as the interior is in the same area on the map as the actual building, implying that the fire didn't despawn. (However, it will be gone if CJ goes back inside)
When the player exits an interior with pedestrians inside and located directly over the actual building, they may witness those same pedestrians fall from the sky due to the interior being unloaded in the normal world. (The San Fierro driving school is an example)
Even though usually no vehicles spawn in the Hidden Interior Universe, it is possible to obtain them in there, however both the vehicle and CJ will be invisible:
- If vehicles are present in the area when the player enters an interior with the yellow marker, those will still be present in their location when the interior is loaded. For example if the player enters the Atrium while police cars are chasing them, they will be present (and their sirens will be heard) outside when the interior is loaded.
- Vehicles inside the player's garages still spawn in the hidden interior universe.
- Furthermore, it is possible to activate the side-missions there!

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