"Research into the buddy skin texture glitch"

#PokemonGO: The buddy skin texture glitch is a bug that covers your avatar's face in the bottom left with the texture from your active buddy.A week or two ago I began collecting screenshots of the bug for each species of Pokemon. I wasn't the only one with this idea; EllieGeiszler posted a thread four days ago that contained 81 screenshots of the glitch (link). Until tonight I don't think anyone knew how to intentionally re-create the bug, which meant screenshotting could only occur when the bug happened to appear and would only last as long as the game didn't crash or lose focus.Tonight I finally figured out how to force the glitch to re-occur, which allowed me to collect screenshots for all Pokemon in my inventory (pretty much everything bar regionals, Unown, Entei and Mewtwo). GLITCH DETAILS:How to force the glitch to occur:Boot the gameIf your character is wearing glasses, take them off (or a different glitch will occur). (I haven't tested female avatars so I am not sure whether necklaces, belts, etc. will also have an effect)Click on your profileClick on "List" next to gym badges. Then turn off screen or press home button to leave app once the badge outlines appear but BEFORE all of the gym badge pictures have loaded. Some should still have the default green texture.Re-enter the app and wait a few seconds to allow the gym badge pictures to loadPress X twice to return to the map screen. The avatar face in the bottom left should be textured with your buddy's skinAt this stage you can go and change buddies without the glitch going away. Whenever you return to the map you will have your new buddy's skin. Things that cause the glitch to stop:Losing focus of the app (on iOS this includes switching to a different app, bringing up control panel, or getting a low battery notification)Clicking the 'Style' option in your profile sectionPossibly other things? (Haven't tested battling, catching Pokemon, etc)If you lose the glitch then you will have to re-start the game to get it working again, as the gym badges will already be loaded.I have recreated this bug on my phone (iPhone 6), my friend's phone and account (iPhone 7), and my iPad. The screenshots linked below were taken with the iPad as the resolution ended up being better. /u/xNiDrOx posted in comments that they weren't able to recreate this glitch on Android. GALLERY:Screenshots: http://ift.tt/2xXBqc0 also created a few gifs:Venusaur: http://ift.tt/2z2gJJN (I liked the way that the texture from the top of the flower wraps around the face)Jigglypuff: http://ift.tt/2xVJeeC (wins a prize for creepy factor)Gastly: http://ift.tt/2z2gLkT (a good example of a semi-transparent texture)Koffing: http://ift.tt/2xX6itv (one of the few animated textures; seems to be linked to the puffs of smoke)Zapdos: http://ift.tt/2z1aVAh (an irregular animated texture) Effect of hats:Hats use different parts of the texture map compared to hair, which can lead to different visual effects.Venusaur with different hat styles: http://ift.tt/2z3el5J with different hat styles: http://ift.tt/2xWgfY1 of glasses:I tried to re-create the glitch while wearing glasses. Both glasses I tried caused a different variation of the glitch. Both trainer models (character on map + face in circle) were replaced with a new texture that affected everything except for the glasses.Future Specs: http://ift.tt/2z205dj Frames: http://ift.tt/2xXf5eJ don't own Mystery Mask but suspect similar would occur. via /r/TheSilphRoad http://ift.tt/2xWJ5rm