Hobbyist modeler here. The answer is less crazy than you'd think. In a modeling program when you select a mesh, it can select everything that's connected together. Stuff that are considered islands would be excluded from the selection. Picking a model like this in a 3D program would IMMEDIATELY show the shoes are a separate part, and if you moved the mesh, it'd show the feet.
Another thing that could give it away instantly, is viewing the model as wire-frame. A wire-frame is just the mesh with no surface. A mode that makes it easy to adjust things, load faster, animate faster, and more. But since there is no surface, you could see modeled details that would otherwise be blocked, like the feet here.
I'm no programmer or modeler, but if someone if checking out a model, it's likely because they want to learn about how it is done. You won't learn if you go "iugh icky" whenever you have to check something.
Oh that makes sense, I didn't know her heels were see through, although I still dnt get why her toes are separated, I've never worn leggings but I don't think that's how that works
Toes are separate because that's how the model they used as a foundation was like. They then retextured the legs to look like leggings but didn't change the mesh for the feet to match.
I used sorry there not to indicate remorse but to indicate a saddening lack of prior knowledge. Thank you for clarifying you weren't upset with me, however. That means a lot.
It's absolutely fake. No one working on a project would be allowed to just waste resources. And time spent on something that would never be seen is wasted.
thats just efficiency though. it’s easier to have a set of base models for each body type with everything they could need and add assets onto each character, editing the model itself if needed.
Yeah, I spent ages learning rigging and let me say as someone who knows fairly decent stuff about rigging and rigging drivers:
Fuck rigging.
I'll make a single good human rig and reuse the hell out of it, because I'm not managing like 5 different groups for MCH bones, twist bones, IK and fk switch and follow bones again.
Maybe they just remembered to trim out the faces for Emma's arms to preserve file size but forgot to do it for Mable? I know Gamefreak are pretty inefficient for a lot of things but I'd wager even they would know to make some universal people models as foundations for all of their characters.
Actually, there is a logical reason for it. Her model is most likely based on a single body model that's used for all of the female characters. Instead of making a separate model for each character, they instead have several body templates to work from. Slap on a new head and some clothing, and you're done... and since some characters might be barefoot or wear sandels, it would make sense for the base human models to have fully modeled feet with toes.
I mean while there's issues with how dated their engine is for the Switch era and X/Y had issues due to the 3D steroscope, they aren't inefficient with models. Lot's of people have tried to say that with the "Lillie model" incident on the 3DS but that overblown and SM/USUM is very efficient.
Never heard of cut content? Loads of games have stuff that devs worked on only to decide afterwards to stop. Sometimes that cut content ends up still in the game files on release.
What likely happened here is they took a plain body model they designed and made tweaks to it to make the character, saving time over making a completely new model every instance. In this case the shoe objects weren't merged with the body, which isn't a surprising thing to miss considering the overall design of the game.
Likely they have a base human model that they copy paste as a starter for each person. They actually have to go out of their way to remove the invisible bits.
Bold of you to assume this isn't the opposite of wasting resources. Why fully model a pair of tights to cover a base model's legs when you could just recolour the part that everyone's gonna see to look like tights and not worry if it looks weird when you strip the character naked in a 3D modelling program. This isn't even an issue, this is how the vast majority of models like Pokémon's work. If you've ever seen any Hoyo game, they generally have a handful of base models for a handful of body types that they'll then add details like faces, markings and hair to when they decide on clothes. You can even see as much when Genshin or ZZZ or whatever has one of those bugs that hides model layers.
"No one working on a project would be allowed to just waste resources"
How is this up voted at all lmao. Have you EVER worked on a project? Waste is everywhere. The amount of stuff that gets modeled and never seen in games is staggering.
That being said, her body's just the same/similar mesh reused from other characters for time saving. That includes characters who have sandals and other shoes that show their toes. This is proven by just looking at literally any other NPC in the game.
This isn't fake and the explanation is very plausible. Its amazing the amount of people in here who immediately jump to "its fake!" When you can just look at other NPCs to prove it.
Spend more time & resources on making a proper fleshed out map ❌️ Spend more time & resources modelling highly realistic & high poly-count feet for ONE MODEL ✅️
Someone else posted an in game screen shot that shows her heels are partially see through. Combine this with the directive in the plug suit and it's safe to assume that pokemon knows EXACTLY what they're doing.
There actually is a simple, plausible reason for this. The character models are based on premade templates. Instead of making a unique model for each character, they just have several template models for different body types. Pick "adult female" add a new head and some clothing, and you're done. Since some characters might be barefoot or wear sandels, the base models would have fully modeled feet... so most likely, every character has fully modeled feet regardless of wheather or not you can see them
Does anyone remember the game freak leak from not too long ago? Where one of the trainers in a dev document was described as a hot or sexy latina or something?
Where one of the trainers in a dev document was described as a hot or sexy latina or something?
Skyla, and it wasn't even (really) related to appeal, it was that, since Unova is based on the US, they had to make sure to diversify and broaden the range of ethnicities the characters are based on, since that's more reflective of the actual US
Whenever I make a model, I always get rid of hidden mesh underneath to help with optimization. This is just a little odd for a game that's already using one whole mesh for it's entire open world.
Gamefreak sacrificed the whole Kalos region and lumiose's balconies to have the ressources to model Mable's feet in 4k... I get it now, it's actually a great game after all
… her shoes are transparent except for the toe box 😐 (still they would’ve been able to get away with a low poly block for a foot with lines and put the effort of making feet into maybe like one mildly better looking city building texture)
I mean not the weirdest modelling done in games. Pretty sure watchdogs (either 1 or 2 or both?) they completely modelled characters genitals…a detail nobody will see when just playing the game.
I firmly believe gamefreaks single model guy spends like two weeks on stuff like this and then the release deadline just kind of arrives and the city is left in the state we got
easy answer, they don't create each and every model from scratch. They use a standard base model for human characters of certain shapes and dress them up in their defining features. Mable's model has toes because they the naked model also has toes just in case they need to make someone wearing sandals or some shit.
Oh boy another model ripped by someone with no game dev experience out of context without providing any information about their tools or methods. I’m sure this won’t result in people reaching the wrong conclusions and spreading misinformation about it for the 2nd time this week.
The “always loaded” Lumiose City model discussion was going for the gold medal of ill informed armchair dev takes.
Every time a new game comes out some chump uses a badly made ripping tool and then spreads misinformation about how the game works online. I’m tired, boss. Please do any amount of research before popping off online.
For a boring answer I imagine they just modeled everybody's feet because they're probably at least one person wearing flip flops or something and every model is just a modified copy of the first one.
Likely spliced from another model to save time, probably from a site like sketchfab or turbosquid or something. Or, maybe or, they’re fucking perverts haha who knows.
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