Pokémon Model Ripping Project

[FreohrWeohnataKausta]

To those who are trying to figure out the Legends Arceus Pokemon textures, since the color isn't baked onto the albedo, here is what I've done in Blender, since I don't know how to work 3ds Max:

(If it doesn't appear, then just right-click>open in new tab- since I have no idea how to use embedded images)

I call this method 'Color Assignment', since it uses a RGBA texture with different colors for different slots. And using a mixRGB (in blender) for each slot, you can assign each color slot a different color.
You'll have to use a SeparateRGB on the color, since each color is in its own channel.

Note: The texture that assigns the color- LYM- should be set to Channel Packed so that it will work correctly. How you can do it is by clicking [N] on your keyboard, going to the [Node] tab at the top of the side menu that appeared, and then finding the [Properties] closed menu, opening it, and then clicking the dropdown menu next to [Alpha:] and changing it from "Straight" to "Channel Packed"

Doing Color Assignment in 3ds Max should be a similar process like above, but since I don't know how to work 3dsMax, you'll have to figure that out yourself.

This is what Torterra looks like when the colors are applied like the image above:


These two nodes on the far right, with the Multiply mixRGB node going into the color slot, is for Ambient Occlusion. Ambient Occlusion (AO) is just shadows baked onto a texture, and gives the model shadows that are permanently there:

I use the AO texture plugged into a multiply with the fac at 1 so that the AO is multiplied onto everything. it's also at the end of the color Assignment sequence so that it lies on top of everything else

Now, with and without AO, Torterra would look like this:

as you can see, the dark markings going over its head are gone without AO.

This is just a lil mini-tutorial going over what I know of getting colors and AO applied, so if you have questions or need clarification, I'm willing to help out in any way I can.

While I was going over the editing of this, I saw a user asked: 

How do I fix the Pokémon Normal Maps from Legends Arceus?

And my answer is: They don't need fixing. In Blender, they work perfectly fine without need for fixing at all. Other programs might need fixing, but in Blender, it works fine.