Every day, there are fans out there discovering new and interesting facts about video games. One such person was a Twitter user named HEYimHeroic, who figured out a curious detail about how The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild generates its NPCs. Apparently, the game uses a modified version of Nintendo's Mii format for its human characters, and through this and some "advanced" tweaking, you can inject your own custom Miis into Breath of the Wild. These files, called UMii's, use certain details from Mii characters, such as hair style, eye color, and facial hair, though not every detail gets transferred over. HEYimheroic reported that they'll be taking commissions to edit people's Miis into UMii files for use in modded versions of Breath of the Wild. with intent to share the method with the public once they understand more about the process.

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

Source

 

[1B51004]

pretty cool. cant wait for someone to somehow port this

 

[VartioArtel]

I'm shocked at the negativity. Even if it was "laziness", it opened the doors for a lot of interesting things. IE: Imagine if you ran into an NPC while traveling in BOTW. It turned out BOTW had scanned your switch/Wii U and friend lists, and chosen a Mii you/your friend made, and now they're a generic NPC. That woulda been awesome for fans if they figured that out.

there was so much potential with a system like this. feels like a proof of concept that may see use again in the future.

Edit: A friend I showed this mentioned something interesting: "Laziness" is the foundation of invention. We wouldn't have these computers or smartphones you all are messaging on if not for 'laziness'.

 

[TehCupcakes]

That makes a ton of sense! As rudimentary as the graphics were, the Mii format already has all the basic characteristics for character customization. Why reinvent the wheel? It saves development time to build off what you've already got. And it's not "lazy", it's just smart; clearly it didn't negatively impact the impression of the game, as nobody really looked at the characters and thought "these look like Miis." It took nearly 3 years before someone discovered this!

Very neat find.

 

[izy]

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.

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.

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

Heres the rest

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

 

[banjo2]

Well that explains a lot

 

[JuanMena]

I want to make EVERY npc a clone of myself. I'll rename the world Lostbhoyrule! It will be now be known as Bald of the Wild


There are few items I believe that are not available for the Wii u version such as the red Switch t shirt....the only thing I can remember at the moment!

And that place will be just as empty as your bald head has been of ideas...









CoMedEe Is My paSsiOn

 

[atypicalchaos]

There are few items I believe that are not available for the Wii u version such as the red Switch t shirt....the only thing I can remember at the moment!

There are no differences. I have both versions of the game and I have the DLC for the Wii U (this is how I played the game initially and didnt get the nx version until a couple yrs after)...one of the first dlc Items I got in the Wii U version was the Switch Tee...if I recall correctly it was a bonus for pre-purchasing the DLC.

 

[Lostbhoy]

And that place will be just as empty as your bald head has been of ideas...









CoMedEe Is My paSsiOn

Hey..... You can't use that word..... Bald is OUR word.....

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There are no differences. I have both versions of the game and I have the DLC for the Wii U (this is how I played the game initially and didnt get the nx version until a couple yrs after)...one of the first dlc Items I got in the Wii U version was the Switch Tee...if I recall correctly it was a bonus for pre-purchasing the DLC.

Really? I didn't think it was available for Wii U at all.... Which is sorta true for those who did not pre purchase the dlc but I do stand corrected!

 

[CallmeBerto]

So Berto is going to be in Botw??

Sweet!!

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of random NPCs in Nintendo games use a base Mii format (that aren't just Miis), it's a simple template you can toss random numbers out to get a face. They sure as shit weren't going to go around hand crafting every NPC.

 

[MK73DS]

I really love these random stuff discovered after almost 4 years.

 

[jt_1258]

I want to make EVERY npc a clone of myself. I'll rename the world Lostbhoyrule! It will be now be known as Bald of the Wild


There are few items I believe that are not available for the Wii u version such as the red Switch t shirt....the only thing I can remember at the moment!

oh it was pricelessly halarious when my friend playing the wii u version opened the chest and got the switch shirt XD
edit: if the pre edit version of this was seen...understand that I only just woke up >.<

 

[Kioku]

This is cool. Can't wait to see the psychotic miis turned BotW NPC.

 

[vaugerbird]

With all the info we have now, I'd be cool to see either a PC or homebrew utility made to load in a UMii file and a Mii file and output the customized UMii file.

 

[Joom]

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/

View attachment 240597

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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.

View attachment 240598



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.

View attachment 240599


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

--------------------- MERGED ---------------------------

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

Heres the rest

View attachment 240600 View attachment 240601

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

@Chary, add this to the first post so people don't inadvertently end up getting scammed, because I've been seeing this everywhere and this guy's Twitter getting shilled.

 

[Wavy]

no surprise there everything in that game is cheap and half assed. just like it's big empty lifeless world filled with nothing to do except find shitty seeds

Bladexdsl swoops right in to shit on anything that doesn't personally interest him. No surprise here

 

[abda]

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Every day, there are fans out there discovering new and interesting facts about video games. One such person was a Twitter user named HEYimHeroic, who figured out a curious detail about how The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild generates its NPCs. Apparently, the game uses a modified version of Nintendo's Mii format for its human characters, and through this and some "advanced" tweaking, you can inject your own custom Miis into Breath of the Wild. These files, called UMii's, use certain details from Mii characters, such as hair style, eye color, and facial hair, though not every detail gets transferred over. HEYimheroic reported that they'll be taking commissions to edit people's Miis into UMii files for use in modded versions of Breath of the Wild. with intent to share the method with the public once they understand more about the process.

yooo matt, i need to ask him how hard did he get embarrassed when i won the sword match

 

[Jokey_Carrot]

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/

View attachment 240597

--------------------- MERGED ---------------------------

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.

View attachment 240598

I hope nintendo sue's this person for trying to make money off hacks.


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.

View attachment 240599


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

--------------------- MERGED ---------------------------

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

Heres the rest

View attachment 240600 View attachment 240601

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

 

[SaberLilly]

this is actually pretty neat to see, i never would have even thought about this while playing the game.

 

[Pippin666]

Th guy is taking to commissions to convert our Mii into Umii ?!?! Watta f*cking loser.

Pip'