https://shellgate.carrd.co 2025-08-29 daily 1.0 https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery84/3fea1a02.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery01/2573408e.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery01/8fcc1d0d.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery01/ed9b16a3.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery01/8810e5c6.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery01/235a53c3.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery01/c85822a7.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery02/61020fd0.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery03/bf530e69.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery04/d2fef154.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery05/70c0b255.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery06/0a08f175.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery39/a2ccf3f9.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery39/308f2e0c.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery39/a8081dd2.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery40/a0904806.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery40/13291ea4.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery40/d293cd2a.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery41/a18b8b02.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery41/7da3d1b2.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery42/8423204f.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery13/b0fca49e.jpg Vanilla hand with very limited bone options. You can move a finger up and down and bend the finger in the middle. https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery13/f3143723.jpg Vanilla hand with limited flexibility. https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery13/d61ff6a0.jpg IVCS skeleton hand with more bones. But the extra flexibility will not be visible unless the body you use has IVCS support. These are usually named "IVCS" with "Models only" or similar. https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery13/a5593409.jpg IVCS skeleton with IVCS body allows for the entire finger to be posed. Note how far the finger tip can be turned. This is not visible without an IVCS body. https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery14/77b2b306.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery15/aa0e8c86.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery16/69629262.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/image04.jpg https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/image05.jpg https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/image06.jpg https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/image07.jpg https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/image03.jpg https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/image02.jpg https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery79/026ee37d.jpg Open advanced editing. https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery79/d1d20246.jpg Pick the file you need. In this case I am editing a hair for my Viera but if no specific options exist, the default will be a "Midlander" or "0201" for female, "0101" for male. https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery79/817c8600.jpg Export the selected file to glTF. We're not doing anything advanced so no need to generate missing bones. https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery79/ba66258a.jpg Import as glTF in Blender. Make sure to switch to "Temperance". https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery79/c00999a9.jpg What pops up in Blender will look very different compared to what you would get if you exported an FBX file from TexTools. Notice how it put out all the IVCS bones. https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery79/5593b571.jpg Get more visual space by turning off the bone visuals and turning on the statistics to see triangle count. https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery79/37827d5f.jpg Unlike the FBX method, we now work per mesh. You can add modifiers like before. https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery79/c1bd752f.jpg Export from Blender as glTF.[https://github.com/xivdev/Penumbra/wiki/Model-IO#import](https://github.com/xivdev/Penumbra/wiki/Model-IO#import) For exact settings to use. We don't really do anything with attributes here unless you're doing for example a sho https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery79/e2734683.jpg Turn off the Shape Keys ► Use sparse. https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery79/5e142cca.jpg Import the file into Penumbra. https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery79/567ba28b.jpg Enable "Redraw on Save" and Click "Save to File" to see the result. https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery67/474f6673.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery67/a6a695ad.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery78/8f1ff60e.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery23/287273bf.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery23/52c9862e.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery25/aea0ed00.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery25/dc4773f8.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery26/99b98e1b.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery27/2d401b13.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery28/09b2e7e1.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery28/b11a1c40.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery28/39293dea.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery29/695c4f4e.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery29/ee3d8136.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery29/1823e451.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery30/97abc60d.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery31/1bacacfc.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery69/c50899fe.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery32/0e8a3f52.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery33/3188c2d5.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery33/dd20db3c.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery33/2835c82b.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery34/d9fdbf87.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery35/91e07270.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery35/8249688a.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery36/655a6c03.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery36/73d75d35.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery37/a5e4ac8a.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery38/8a5e93a9.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery21/94e269e5.jpg 200k original https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery21/135795a5.jpg 120k 40% reduction https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery21/a4f1992c.jpg 80k 60% reduction https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery21/ea6f7805.jpg 40k 80% reduction https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery21/78de942c.jpg 20k 90% reduction https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery46/0bb26ee6.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery46/dd532b92.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery46/bce90133.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery46/111f5165.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery45/cf587d9f.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery45/9fd96a3a.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery47/88a0730d.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery47/87c33de5.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery48/5b74cfb9.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery48/83f67468.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery48/1568584e.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery49/28d914e4.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery49/ce7b0ec8.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery49/916639e7.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery50/775d783d.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery50/e5b88e57.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery57/2468a4cd.jpg 86k triangles is way too much for shoes. 20k is max. https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery57/e3d22318.jpg You can see how dense the triangles are. It is almost its own texture. This is not good. https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery57/d781ca85.jpg The entire bottom could be just a texture or have some simple models. Every crevice does not need to be modelled. https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery57/bdf96a4e.jpg The small holes were modelled as well. This could have been a handful of triangles with a texture of holes. https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery57/82a460f3.jpg The holes are barely noticeable yet take up many thousands of traingles. https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery57/a692b237.jpg The inside is never seen in-game. There is no need to model this. https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery58/0812234b.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery58/2319046e.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery58/258f92b1.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery58/eaff2f8a.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery58/7817a74a.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery58/2a8a1186.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery58/42039c85.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery58/1faf1078.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery75/f5977170.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery61/28be7fa7.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery61/c77e9801.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery62/2edde044.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery76/f47eec83.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery72/1fdff52b.jpg This beautiful skirt by Imeris is only 1624 triangles. You can clearly see the shape and all edges and faces and vertices (dots where edges/lines come together) are there to maintain that shape without going overboard. https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery72/dfe45712.jpg Good texture work means you don't need triangles to shape every little bump or fold. https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery72/23c844a4.jpg Click for a bigger view. In-game, this skirt somehow has all kinds of little folds and different angles will show shadows coming from them. https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery72/c9f85c76.jpg Click for bigger view. It can even be stretched wider by a thick-thighed lion-girl. https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery71/349d218c.jpg This basic cube has almost 200k triangles. It really doesn't need to have that many. https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery71/b418101e.jpg This cube has only 12 triangles and would look identical. Squares are turned to triangles because modern hardware is optimised for triangles. https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery71/d86f744f.jpg This part of a mod has 105k triangles. Mind you the goal for the entire character is to be below 165k. https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery71/54bab106.jpg Dropped down to 10k, a 90% reduction. https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery71/6d5d8223.jpg To a non-3D artist, it looks as if 105k triangles would be necessary. But in reality it is not. https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery71/dd1fd977.jpg There is barely any difference with the "high poly" version and this "optimised" version. https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery59/a68d91bd.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery59/0e7b6753.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery60/a0df887f.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery60/34fbe9c8.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery77/babede42.jpg This is terrible. At 50k for just the ears. On the hairs, you can't even see the individual tris. They made every single strand of hair its own set of triangles. Yet the fluff inside the ear is normal. It was probably 2 assets combined into one. https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery77/e8aa9f7b.jpg The dress is pushing the limit at 20k. Let's say we cut the dress into 4 parts, that would be 5k. The skirt above by Imeris is less than 2k. https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery77/95ddd132.jpg 90k triangles for a line around the edge of the dress. This is bad. Very bad. Can you see individual vertices? https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery77/58b6d667.jpg What the dress looks like in-game. https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery77/ba4b1018.jpg This hair at 201k, was brought down to 46k with barely any difference in what it looks like in-game. https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/image08.jpg https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/image09.jpg https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery73/ca9c74fb.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery74/b3ee021c.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery24/2f3f6ab7.jpg Where to find the files on the IV Discord? https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery24/f6111b15.jpg The library is in the doc. https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery17/43f861c4.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery83/a95b7ef1.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/image10.jpg https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery52/3fb92236.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery52/c7365be6.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery53/4477a95b.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery51/76b02154.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery54/eec1d20c.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery82/ff114d82.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery82/5d7e9095.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery18/262c6300.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery56/9fea57ff.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery43/03474c3f.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery43/f655c271.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery44/70f23a8b.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery07/6467642e.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery07/f3be1301.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery55/09a3f2af.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery19/76c6c1c9.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery08/7ce93fcd.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery09/1d323b5d.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery10/33385f74.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery70/fb923de8.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery70/71996ac2.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery11/4c1333cb.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery12/24fc2071.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/image01.jpg https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery64/ea84c22a.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery63/74f9088f.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery65/ae6facb3.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery66/c8d50d5b.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery68/8e911486.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery20/e3bdc8b9.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery22/3d87f309.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery80/807260ec.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery81/d9333da8.jpg Untitled https://shellgate.carrd.co/assets/images/gallery85/761a4fd0.jpg Untitled