>>41399236Not OP, but did take a uni course in game dev. If you need to do anything to the model besides clone it then you are officially retarded.
And even cloning the model is a bit of a weird move (it has it's pros and cons).
Also this game sold well over a million copies in the first week. The cost of 400 recolor textures is NOTHING to that profit margin, hire a goddamn animation team to do it if you think it's so damn hard and they'd be done in maybe 3 months. 4 if they bicker among themselves over what colors to use more than usual.
>>41399344Sort of. It's a whole complex thing but basically they made a really rare Shiny variant (1/16 Shinies) then made it much more common for certain types of Shiny generation, effectively splitting them.
It's unrelated to Full Odds and Shiny Charming though, it looks to be easier to get Sparkles with breeding and Squares with catching (with some overlap, more for breeding than catching).