[conspire] Dept. of Fsck It, Ship It: Cyberpunk 2077

[Deirdre Saoirse Moen]

> On Dec 19, 2020, at 19:29, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:
> 
>   One frequent glitch includes characters going into "T-Pose" -- 
>   standing with their arms raised to either side -- and suddenly 
>   losing their pants.  Users on Reddit described the phenomenon as 
>   "straight Donald Duckin' it."
>   [...]
> 
> Deirdre tried to read the first of those paragraphs to me this morning,
> and couldn't make it through, without collapsing in laughter multiple
> times.

Earlier I said on Twitter that I felt like an amateur because I’d not shipped a bug that hilariously awful and said I couldn’t conceive of a workflow that would cause some of these results.

My ex Lizard chimed in, but he’s thought a lot more about 3D gaming than I (vertigo enabled for the enterprise) have.

His comments:

I can: An off-by-one error into the index for the clothing texture, resulting in a transparent texture. OR, a similar error that turns on a "hidden" bit for a particular slot: A lot of games let you wear equipment for essential bonuses, but turn off rendering for looks.

While it's common in many games, I'm thinking of WoW and FF14, which have various options like "hide/show helmet" and the ability to "glamor" or "transmog" items (give 1 item the appearance of another).

For example, my FF14 character always looks like he's wearing a top hat and monocle, even though his actual headgear, in terms of game stats, is completely different in its (undisguised) appearance.

So at a guess, underneath all that, there's something saying "This is item 4527891, but render it as 3216781". Replace that last (erroneously) with a value meaning "Don't render", and, boom! No (visible) hat. Or pants. :)

(end quotation)

So I can see his point, especially in a world with many user-defined transmog[rification]s and…a few too many bugs.

I play Summoners War, which does use (minimal) 3D and transmogs, but they’re an established limited set. Since they actually also change the moves (typically), I’d guess they’re usually not just additional clothing items but actually separate models…so that kind of bug wouldn’t happen.

In some cases, like the infamous Jet Ski Oracle transmog, it's clearly a different model:

Earlier Oracle transmog: https://youtu.be/34zuIJiz3CA?t=845 <https://youtu.be/34zuIJiz3CA?t=845>
Jet ski ones: https://youtu.be/AnOz76lqanY?t=732 <https://youtu.be/AnOz76lqanY?t=732> (complete with the 360 flip on a couple of them)

One of the uglier monsters is the Chimera, and they actually made him adorable in the Halloween transmog offerings this year by making him look like a kid in a chimera suit:

https://youtu.be/mbgZJPYQrQY?t=30 <https://youtu.be/mbgZJPYQrQY?t=30>

Anyhow, I love their creative art department, especially when they do amazing work on the fabrics for Asian clothing in particular.

Deirdre
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