ubcsestudent t1_jeczyou wrote on March 31, 2023 at 2:48 AM

Im not a game developer. But knowing a bit about coding. I think the most reasonable thing is that the asset for armor probably just scales directly vertically with height and horizontally in both directions with fat/muscle/mass.

Im sure it just rerenders the model with different dimensions. It probably has base dimensions, and then they are probably multiplied by character height and mass to scale it up or down.

ErieeKo OP t1_jed80od wrote on March 31, 2023 at 3:59 AM

yea i guess, i thought maybe tho the pixels will get all distorted and weird looking tho if just directly scaled

ubcsestudent t1_jed8mt1 wrote on March 31, 2023 at 4:05 AM

The base size for the asset is probably the biggest version. Expanding an image is harder to retain quality than shrinking an image. My assumption is that the same thing applies to this.

You're not wrong that pixels can get distorted, but the distortion when scaling down is very minor.