Thanks, DigitalDiamal.

Hi everyone, I've been working on exporting all of the clothes.



If you're curious about what "eyewhite" is, it's clothes items that cover or surround the penguin's eyes. Examples would be goggles and eyelashes.

While exporting the clothes I learned something. Clothes that replace the entire body part have "rep" in the name. Clothes that are added onto a body part have "add" in the name. There's a somewhat rare one, "Sec", which I think means "secondary", clothes with this in the name can be put over body parts that already have clothes on them [ex. necklaces].

So far I have exported 127 pieces of clothing, each with 2 LODs, so technically 254. I'm only in the D's so far...
Many of those are part of an oufit and will be uploaded together.

@Jasper7438 I'll teach you how can you modify your screen setting!

First, do you see that gear icon on the top right corner? Click on that and you see the Settings pop-up. When you see "Screen" click on the right or left arrows to change into Fullscreen or Windowed.

Also, if you want to buddy me there, I'll share you my username through a PM.

Thank you for helping me.

@Jasper7438 In The Textures Resource, someone did rip a texture for a Pet Penguin, which technically it has it's own page over there. But I don't know about here, since I have a concern of sorts which I think I mentioned to you by a PM at one time.

That sounds confusing for new players... ah.
Perhaps we could give PW/AJ it's own page here on the Model's Resource. What do you think?

@Jasper7438 Don't worry, non-members have freedom, it's not bad as other MMOs were you're limited to certain features.

If you're on the main page of AJ, click on the button that says "Download for PC & Mac"

Mind you, that they renamed Play Wild as Animal Jam, while the original AJ that was referred by that is now known as Animal Jam: Classic.

I was just curious if you knew how.
Wait, there's pc version? I only saw app stuff. Do you have a link for it?
That should make ripping stuff much more straightforward [or not... I've seen PC versions of games have asset protection but not the mobile versions].
I do hope there isn't too much "membership" [or whatever it's called in PW] related stuff if there is any. That was the worst part of CPI [even me, as a superfan of CPI, is willing to admit that...].

@Jasper7438 I didn't mean by ripping, I meant the game overall.

Play Wild has a PC version, I do know how to access the AppData folder for the game, just not ripping them.

Do you know how to rip models from PW? You hinted that you did know how to rip stuff from PW? You hinted that might know how but you also asked for help in unity ripping, so now I'm not sure... Mobile ripping is bit more involved but not by much unless...

I remember I'd always check my phone's cache files to look for cpi party files [these special files were not part of the game instead they were downloaded to your device. It made it so that you didn't have to redownload the entire game every time a new update came out. Using cache files was the only way to get the party files rather than taking them from the server directly [very few knew how]. Well, one party came around, I went to my cache files eagerly to look for party files and... NOTHING WAS THERE!
Honestly, I was SO bummed out because then I had no other way to get party files :(

They'd changed the file system somehow, no clue as to how. Perhaps the files just became hidden or maybe the files weren't cached at all. Who knows?

This is just a lesson how how you never know when game devs are going to suddenly make your life as model ripper super difficult :(

@Jasper7438 Okay, but if you'll need help on it, as in information about this game since I'm a player of it after all.

Now you're making me curious, too. Maybe I'll have to download that game to find out.

@Jasper7438 I hope the animal avatars and clothing of Play Wild will work the same way as the penguin avatars, so I can use this method once I get to that point someday.

I finished uploading all of the npcs! Now I can move on to the clothes! The clothes are very interesting, so I'm going to teach you all about them!

Most of the clothes color in the game are made using rgb color textures. Each color on the texture gets replaced with a different color/fabric. This method is also used on the player penguin model.



The clothes also use detail, overlay, and mask textures.

• The detail textures are basically ambient occlusion textures, they add shadow detail.
• The overlay textures are used for colored details that are not affected by fabrics, such as metal studs. They fill in the black parts that might be on a rgb texture.
• Mask textures are penguin body color textures... for this one to make sense we'll need a explanation on clothes models.

Penguin clothes completely replace the part of the body they're meant for [ex. a shirt will replace the entire torso, that includes most of the arms]. Often times, a outfit piece will only need to replace part of the body [ex. a short-sleeved shirt], once we put that model on the body we're left with no arms! To make up for this, if an outfit piece has skin showing, it will include the skin in the model. The next thing to explain is that there are many different penguin colors to choose from, there isn't just one. This means that the skin showing on our clothes model has to match the color on the rest of the penguin's skin.

...Thats where mask textures come in! The colors on the mask texture will be black [meaning no color], blue [the penguin's color], green [always white], and red [always orange]. You'll notice these are same colors used for the penguin color in the image above!

All of this means that the material is complicated, but it's definitely not impossible to recreate! I have been able to recreate the material in Blender! All of the textures combined will give you this. I made the colors match their rgb counterparts, but I could replace them with any color or image. The same goes for the skin textures. This image also shows how much model is considered the torso.

Yeah, wouldn't that be nice?
However, if you ask me, it looks like this version of the town/civic interior room was made to get an idea of what the finished room would look like and to test out the scale/size of the room compared to player. Adding textures at this stage of development would be a waste of time.

@Jasper7438 Ooh, I wished there was some textures for that room.

Hey guys! I actually found the towninterior model, it seems I named it "civicinterior" instead. Hmm... that would be accurate too. It is the interior to the civic building.
I got screenshots! As you can, it is very unfinished looking. It's possible those floating objects were caused by incorrect ripping, asset studio tends to do that...

1st pic - what the room looks like [no textures, has vertex color, real-time shading]

2nd pic - what the room looked like in the game [no textures, has vertex color?, no real-time shading]

I'll continue ripping the remaining npcs [Rookie, Rory, and JPG]. Once I finish that, I'll move onto the clothes.

I did occasionally share videos of the glitches I did on my old twitter account [that no longer exists].

I have submitted 5 characters so far. The most complex so far is Dot. She has 5 different textures, one being an early version of one of the other textures. She also has repurposed penguin outfit pieces for her Halloween Cat outfit. Thing is these were put in place/parented to the armature using code, so I couldn't put them on the actual armature accurately. This means even though the outfit pieces will be included, they won't be rigged to armature. Sorry!

@Jasper7438 Did you ever get to showcase the glitches through a recorded video at the time the game was still up?

Imagine: Club Penguin Island Lost Bits by TetraBitGaming, lol
I could go on about interesting facts about CPI all day. I know way too much about this defunct game. Have some more random facts, I'm full of 'em.

Fun fact #1 - Of all the base characters in the game [A.Arctic, Dot, Herbert/Klutzy, Rockhopper, Rookie, Gary, Cadence, and Rory, excluding Scorn], Cadence has the highest model file size, in fact Cadence has the highest model file size for a model that isn't part of an area. The character model with the 2nd highest file size compared to Cadence is Dot.
Fun fact #2 - The model with the highest file size that isn't just combined scenery is the Migrator [Rockhopper's ship].
Fun fact #3 - The player penguin model and all the clothes have multiple level of detail models [LODs]. The highest lod is for viewing clothes in the closet, the second highest is for viewing penguins in the game close to you, and the lowest is for penguins that are far away/not visible on screen.

I also know a lot of glitches.

@Jasper7438 Ooh, I like unused content discoveries, thanks for sharing about it!