Gaming Hi, Mii expert here. Turns out, the NPCs in TLoZ:BotW use an advanced version of the Mii format.

[Deleted User]

So, do BotW NPCs use Miis? Both yes, and no.

Basically, they use an evolution of Miis, which the game's files call "UMii"s (which is what I'll be calling them from now on). UMiis have almost all the same parameters as Wii U/3DS Miis, with a few minor differences here and there, like moles no longer being supported.

However, BotW does not support *every* hairstyle Miis do. So, if you tried to load a hairstyle the game doesn't support, it instead calls a separate file, that essentially converts the unsupported hairstyle into a hair type that *is* supported and looks the most similar to the unsupported one, which is what happened with my personal Mii, Alice.

There's a lot more details I could go into, BUT I'd like to spread the word about this a bit more before other people start reposting my stuff, so I hope you don't mind. Thanks

 

[LeifEricson]

I saw that your tweet about this blew up. This is a pretty amazing find. The image in your post is broken, by the way!

Would you take requests, or share how you do the injection?

 

[izy]

I saw that your tweet about this blew up. This is a pretty amazing find. The image in your post is broken, by the way!

Would you take requests, or share how you do the injection?

Sure heres all the info

Just saying they didn't discover this and are using it to farm commisions.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Breath_of_...i_have_a_theory_that_they_ran_out_of_time_to/

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But yeah instead of publication of the method going straight to commisions based on others data here you go

https://www.mediafire.com/file/a54es4684t5pb7i/BotW_Hylians_and_Sheikah.xlsx/file

Also, to better explain the way the UMii system works, since I explained it pretty horribly in that spreadsheet:
>BotW's actors all use a file called SBACTORPACK.
>Inside these SBACTORPACK files is a .bumii file
>this .bumii file contains all face info relating to minor Hylians and minor Sheikah (alongside color values for the other races)
>The face values match up identically with the values Miis have.
So you go into the .bumii, you replace the data with the Mii you want, and then you pack it back up and see the custom character in-game.
As an example, here's Rito Village's Jogo's values.
There's a Github that's publicly visible that shows off all the UMiis, though not all of them are Hylian. The spreadsheet lists who is a minor Hylian/Sheikah NPC though.
https://github.com/leoetlino/botw/tree/master/Actor/UMii


Not particularly, if what I've got so far is correct, just a bit time-consuming to actually get the Mii face values, which could be simplified with a converter or something.
The actual hard part so far has been backporting the Hylians as Miis, since there's certain differences between the two, but again, this got posted before I had enough info to be comfortable with at all.

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And the image comparison between Jogo in BotW, and when backported as a Mii. If you plug all those values into Mii Studio on the My Nintendo Website, it should come up as someone almost exactly the same.

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FYI this isn't my info thank random 4chan user for posting it

Or you plebs would be asking op for commission for simple ass things based on 2 year info

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So yeah in actuality this person didn't discover anything just confirm it.
Then decided to play it off as their own info, not supply guide and then profit over nintendos ip which is a no no

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Also you cant use moles etc when importing miis they do not show so no double faces.

And certain hylian backports have mustaches even if the original didnt

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Link to post

https://gbatemp.net/threads/modder-...le-format-for-npcs.580248/page-2#post-9318152

 

[Deleted User]

Sure heres all the info



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Link to post

https://gbatemp.net/threads/modder-...le-format-for-npcs.580248/page-2#post-9318152

there has never been any Mii injections for Breath of the Wild. there was this one redditor who tried to explain that "this has been known for years" - he's talking about how when the game launched, fans theorized that Miis and UMiis were connected somehow. they didn't do any injections or backports or anything like that.

the person that post is quoting did do some backports, and they're a friend of mine who saved me some testing with getting things like hair color converted properly.

i discovered the method into how injections would work, i never said i discovered the connection between the two. thanks

edit: i explain it better here: