Talk:Merchant Remi

It turns out this guy has two different models. He has one before the troll attacks and then one after. I'll try to provide proof but I actually just noticed it on my second account doing events in the area. The first picture is how he looks pre-event, the one I uploaded is post-event. He disappears when the troll attacks his caravan, and re spawns with a new model. How peculiar :) Anyway, just thought I'd add that in case someone finds him again and is wondering why his model is different to the one uploaded. --Neko+ (talk) 09:29, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

Actually, he has a random model. And his female friend too. Certain characters are set to have a random model each time they are loaded, like all generic NPCs in cities and villages. And those models come in sets, like "human noble", "norn merchant", "charr worker", "asura researcher" or "sylvari villager". When the map is loaded, random models are picked for the NPCs based on their set, some color variations are created, then applied to the NPCs. So every time their model is loaded, they may look different (but since the variations are limited, you may find the same blond girl with the same green dress all over the place, then the next time you load the map the girl has darker skin, dark hair and a yellow dress, and she's also all over the place). This setting is rarely used for named NPCs, but it happens, which can be confusing. I mentioned in the NPC infobox template talk that we should deal with random models in some way. MithTalk 15:12, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for clarification. I did not know that! Very interesting :) --Neko+ (talk) 11:29, 7 March 2015 (UTC)