Strange Behaviour with Decals

[wevetments]

I recently discovered a common trick that YouTubers use to make better NPCs for their videos.

The image below is a standard NPC without the trick applied. Notice how the face is pixelated.

This image on the other hand has a much clearer face. For some reason, placing the head of a character inside its humanoid makes the face clearer.

I’m not sure if this is expected behaviour, but I would like to know why such is occurring.

Turns out we weren’t getting the most out of our faces

[mothmage (moth)]

This is intentional and because of the fact that Humanoid textures are composited and then wrapped onto the the character. The space reserved for the face is especially small, meaning that faces often end up looking worse than intended with a Humanoid.