The VG Resource

Pokémon GO’s Camera has a feature called Snapshot Surprise that will occasionally cause characters to photobomb you. Usually it’s a Smeargle, and sometimes other Pokémon will do it during events. These photobombs are accomplished using the Pokémon‘s 3D model posed and given a fixed view so it appears to be a static 2D image.
https://www.imore.com/sites/imore.com/fi...tobomb.jpg
Last year on April Fool’s Day, however, Ash Ketchum dhowed up, and right niw, for Animation Week, it’s Goh. These human photobombs are actual two-dimensional sprites aysing anime-style artwork:
https://i.redd.it/l5courhocjp21.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EmhaenOXEAA6K5A.jpg
These have different sprites for a few different poses each. They don’t appear to be stored in the IPA/APK of the game, and dataminers don’t seem to have located them on the server. Therefore, the only way I can think of to rip them is to cut them out of the photo itself. There are three problems with this, though:
1. You are not guaranteed to get every pose, since you might get the same ine every time, and you are not even guaranteed to get photobombed at all for these events (you have to keep taking pictures until it happens, which can be very time-consuming).
2. The quality of the photo depends on your device’s camera specifications. For example, my iPhone’s snapshots have Goh look compressed with artifacts everywhere, while my mom’s iPad seems to have adequate resolution (Goh is pixelated, but that’s because he’s being shown in high resolution; the colors between the pixels are clean and easy to differentiate, whereas the iPhone shots were blurry). However, my iPhone shows the whole Goh sprite, while the iPad cuts him off at the top.
3. The Ash event has been over for a year and a half, so you can’t get him anymore, and the Goh event ends tomorrow night.

You would also have to be sure you’re cutting out every pixel of Goh’s sprite, so the snapshot behind him would need to have colors easily discernible from his outline.

Can I change the way the app takes photos? Maybe fiddle with my camera settings? Or does someone else have a device with high resolution AND the correct dimensions the show the whole sprite?

I suppose if you were to take two pictures with the same pose, one with a black background and one with a white background, you could use the images to create a mask to sorta get the sprites. However, getting a full pure white photo is probably not easily possible really, or at least not on a phone's camera, and the sprites would likely not be their correct resolution or shown in full. I think you can also get files from the server from the app's cache but unfortunately that's not something I know too much about so I can't really give an explanation on how to do it. Even if I could, I believe it'd only work if it could still happen in the app.

(11-12-2020, 05:08 AM)D.M. Wrote: [ -> ]I suppose if you were to take two pictures with the same pose, one with a black background and one with a white background, you could use the images to create a mask to sorta get the sprites. However, getting a full pure white photo is probably not easily possible really, or at least not on a phone's camera, and the sprites would likely not be their correct resolution or shown in full. I think you can also get files from the server from the app's cache but unfortunately that's not something I know too much about so I can't really give an explanation on how to do it. Even if I could, I believe it'd only work if it could still happen in the app.

I’ve tried doing network monitoring to capture the files before, but they’re encrypted. I also tried the white background thing, but it was really hard to get it white enough. The best way to do this via screen capture would be to use a device with a high screen resolution, but have similar proportions to my phone so it doesn’t cut off the top, which is not something I have access to.

Apparently now they have Jessie and James (with their Secrets of the Jungle designs) doing photobombs.