shout-out to characters who let their childhood friend situationship dictate the course of their life to a degree that spits in the face of any and all reason. they're doing important work.
This is by no means extensive. My resource for female models does not include all Natlan textures and male models are all enemies, so I don't have any Fontanian suits or anything. I also got males and females from different sources, and generally this is just what I know so far.
NPCs are, of course, much simpler than playables. Their models are flat, letting the texture do most of the heavy lifting and allowing for lots of recolors between regions. Male and female models come with three body types each (Standard, Fat, and whatever the third one is called), as well as the Muscleman type. I recently learned that face meshes aren't unique meshes made to fit on the different body types, but Genshin stores them as "shape keys", which change their face to match the body type. Musclemen have their own face meshes and can't share meshes with regular men. Eye colors are also linked to the bodies, not the heads.
Each model has its own mapping layout for the textures, so it's not possible to put a short Mondstadt texture on the big Fontanian dress model. Not even their eye textures are in the same places across textures. For female characters, I classify the clothes models as Slim, Pants, Coat, Shorts, Short Skirt, Medium Skirt 1 (and alt 1 for the Nod Krai variants since they have different arms) and Medium Skirt 2, Long Skirts 1 and 2, and Fontaine. There are also some unique models that I call Miko, Boss, Diver, and Alia. I don't have the same for male models yet.
Faces are interesting, and I assume eyebrows are their own assets that they mix and match onto the faces behind the scenes. Females have five face templates. NPC faces don't move like character faces, so it's possible (actually likely) that the variants on the templates are just the faces they decided to freeze for the NPCs for each variant. You can tell the variant by the eyelashes and eyelid shape. The slight changes in the textures are mostly for brows and lashes. Aside from the fifth column, the eyesockets and mouth are in more or less the same place, across all of them.
Textures for hair and clothes are generally default white, and the alterations for them are made elsewhere in the code. My source for female models had them already colored, but the male models were not. Also, muscle men have their own hair styles. I'm also likely missing male hairstyles.
I find this back end stuff so cool. A fun fact is that accessories like glasses, backpacks, and such are so small, a bunch of them share texture files. However, I'm finding them insufferable to sort so I'm leaving them out for now.
#Helios was declawed by his former owners so he doesn't just slap things he dislikes like most cats#he really only feels confident in hissing at them#Especially because a lot of the thing he doesn't like are bugs and those are sharp sometimes :(#Selene has figured this out and now when she hears him hiss she sprints over the kill the fuck out of the bug#Helios has learned she will do this so he'll hiss at stuff louder and louder until she hears him#A nervous old man and his emotional support homicidal maniac
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I couldn't reblog without the tags because the context is hilarious
A Nervous Old Man (right) and his Emotional Support Violence Machine (Left)
Yes, he is more than twice her size.
Yes, he is five times her age.
Yes, he cries like a big baby until she kills Unacceptable Scary Things (earwigs) for him.
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The flowers on June's halo are maybell flowers, Convallaria majalis. Other names for the flower are Our Lady's tears, Mary's tears, glovewort, and Apollinaris.
Sunday has two golden stud piercings on his left wing, while June has two silver stud piercings on her right wing, matching with one another and also marking them as opposites. They had their wings pierced together in a joint act of rebellion as children; only becoming estranged from one another later on in life.
The choice of silver rather than gold for June's piercings is a reference to the thirty pieces of silver Judas Iscariot was paid after he betrayed Christ with a kiss in Gethsemane, damning him to crucifixion and fulfilling His prediction.
June used to have six wings before the Nihility caused her wings to fall off the same way Acheron's red Oni horns no longer seem to be present after she becomes a Self-Annihilator. This is a reference to biblical Seraphim, six-winged angels that fly around the Throne of God, and how she ends up 'falling from heaven' since she loses two pairs of wings. Additionally, she specifically loses four wings, with the number four being associated with death from Japanese superstition.
June's eyes used to reflect every color of the Harmony, like a rainbow or an oilspill, before she became a Self-Annihilator. This is both a reference to biblical angels being incomprehensible to gaze upon and how birds see different colors thanks to UV light. (I haven't drawn her with her original eyes properly yet, but the Junehill fanchild actually ends up inheriting them!)
June has three belts. This is a minor reference to the fact that Xipe the Harmony has three faces.
Despite no longer believing in The Order or The Harmony, June still has various ornaments that symbolize the eyes of The Order on her clothes. The most obvious one is the ornament hanging from her necklace, situated over her heart. It is in relatively the same place as Sunday's eye ornament, which is in the middle of his chest on his black turtleneck.
The symbol on the patch of her jacket on the left side resembling an 'A' is the Circle-A anarchy symbol. This is supposed to be in line with the anarchist graffiti around Dreamflux Reef.
The color of Sunday and June's coats are inverted. The lines on June's coat also resemble thorns near the lapels, with Sunday's thorn motifs being much more prominent on his design.
The long sleeves of June's coat are detachable and re-attachable by zipper; the right sleeve is half-unzipped haphazardly.
This was unintentional because I designed her before the release of Planarcadia, but with how June's stockings are worn uneven, how there are bandages on her right leg, and how her sword resembles a box cutter after transforming, she has similarities with Aggressive Reading Material. I suppose it works anyhow since she's half Planarcadian?
Sunday has three hair tufts going down from the top of his head, June has two, and Robin has one. This wasn't intentional either, but I think it's very cute.
Sunday and June both have two thigh straps on the opposite legs respectively. June's is gold, attached to the bottom strap, and Sunday's is silver, attached to the top strap.
Both Sunday and June have full-hand gloves. Something, something, insert joke about protection during handholding here.
i just think pre ranger pre cyborg boothill was kinda a reactive hypervigilant prey animal about it all. just a little bit. and ashveil found that so very familiar
^ funny To Me but also consider the fucking ramifications. the rammys. he vanishes without telling anyone for realistically probably a few months in which ashveil and rappa at the very least get worried about him and maybe look for him but turn up nothing and have to kinda just wait it out until they get a sign one way or the other. and then he TURNS UP ONE DAY ALIVE BUT COMPLETELY DIFFERENT FROM THE NECK DOWN BECAUSE HE HAD A SURGERY THAT RAN A VERY HIGH RISK OF KILLING HIM? oh they'd be PISSED! rightfully pissed. for all they knew he ran off and died and they'd never have closure about it. which could have easily been the case! they're happy to see him but also WHAT ARE YOU DOING ACTING LIKE NOBODY'S GONNA NOTICE YOU'RE GONE YOU IDIOT? however long they end up laughing at him for not being able to swear anymore is justified for worrying the hell out of them for months for no goddamn reason other than it genuinely did not occur to him much that someone might be worried about him like that anymore
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