Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games

[Xiahou Ba]

So what? higher poly model , such a big deal (sarcasm).

it's a big deal to some people who are interested in using them for creating fan-art.

They don't look much different when it comes to the game aside from the lighting as Mario Kart 8 has really good graphics.

they do look different, they're higher poly, which means they're higher quality.

mario kart 8 has good rendering environments but it doesn't do much in the poly-count department

 

[Starlight24]

So what? higher poly model , such a big deal (sarcasm).

it's a big deal to some people who are interested in using them for creating fan-art.

They don't look much different when it comes to the game aside from the lighting as Mario Kart 8 has really good graphics.

they do look different, they're higher poly, which means they're higher quality.

mario kart 8 has good rendering environments but it doesn't do much in the poly-count department

Well sorry if my ignorance about 3D modelling offended you.

Aside from that, im very happy about the latter fix in the credits of the game for Rosalina.

 

[Xiahou Dun]

Almost? Swiftie, plz.

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And that's not counting the bones.

So what? higher poly model , such a big deal (sarcasm).

They don't look much different when it comes to the game aside from the lighting as Mario Kart 8 has really good graphics.

lol, "big deal"? What?

The model has a more detailed bone structure (allows for animation AND posing). Rio's Larry has much more bones (10 bones) on his face than Mario Kart 8's Larry (2 bones): this allows for a greater variety of making facial expressions much more easily. It's a huge plus for fanart and fan animations. It's pretty much the closest thing you'll get to making your own fan art that is remotely comparable to the official art. Higher-poly models is to higher-resolution images.

It's not just your ignorance, it's your remark I found snide and arrogant that bothered me. Your apology doesn't sound sincere to me either.

Sprites are nice, but if you're skilled enough with models, you can make as many different sprites as you please.

 

[Xiahou Ba]

flipping hell, now we have to go back to gmod and update the koopalings pack

siiiiiiiiighhh people will start asking soon >_>

 

[Xiahou Dun]

Wellllll, thanks to Mario & Sonic developers being absolute morons at being consistent with the Koopalings, it's going to look incomplete.

Sigh.

Hopefully, we'll put better use to these Koopalings once we get those ported. *cleans crowbar*

 

[Starlight24]

Almost? Swiftie, plz.

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And that's not counting the bones.

So what? higher poly model , such a big deal (sarcasm).

They don't look much different when it comes to the game aside from the lighting as Mario Kart 8 has really good graphics.

lol, "big deal"? What?

The model has a more detailed bone structure (allows for animation AND posing). Rio's Larry has much more bones (10 bones) on his face than Mario Kart 8's Larry (2 bones): this allows for a greater variety of making facial expressions much more easily. It's a huge plus for fanart and fan animations. It's pretty much the closest thing you'll get to making your own fan art that is remotely comparable to the official art. Higher-poly models is to higher-resolution images.

It's not just your ignorance, it's your remark I found snide and arrogant that bothered me. Your apology doesn't sound sincere to me either.

Sprites are nice, but if you're skilled enough with models, you can make as many different sprites as you please.

Well it can't be helped , i don't think you can tell by just reading it though.

Not to mention the apology was actually directed to Baby Luigi as i honestly didn't want to sound rude to her. It is up to her to accept it or not in this case , but this is not even an issue, it's something so small.

I have nothing else to say.

 

[Mister Wu]

By the way, one interesting thing that was found, at least in the case of Larry, is that now all fingers have bones.
First of all shame on me on not realizing that in MK8 all fingers of the hand except the thumb move in the same way. The animators in MK8 did a good job in hiding this.
I am surprised, however, that they did such a relatively complex rigging for Mario & Sonic's Larry, who is used only in one event. At this point I am really curious to see if there are some animations that take advantage of it or if the developers knew about the Wii U exploits and wanted to give fans some relatively good models to play with... it is after all the same SEGA that now allows ROMhacks of their released Genesis games on Steam for their own PC Genesis emulator...

 

[Xiahou Ba]

I'd understand why they'd make fingers share a same bone. Fingers can be a real bitch to animate. Think of them as miniature arms and legs, and you have to rotate them individually. That's why they saved animation time by making all the fingers barring the thumb rigged to one bone. Often times, when characters make gestures, only the thumb and index finger are important individually, the other three can be animated with one finger bone.

In Mario Kart 8, that didn't stop me from simply adding bones to Baby Luigi's fingers for his model. You can always do that. Just add more bones to the model, and add more bones to your skin, and rig those. No need to redo the entire thing. Granted, your rigging skill is dependent on your own talents but you can get separately rigged fingers that way.

I don't think this has anything to do with the kernel exploit, though. I just think that they wanted to focus on the detail, and by giving each fingers their own bones, they can take advantage should an animation call for usage of the rest of the fingers separately.

 

[Starlight24]

Im guessing its because In this game , the characters are way more active than in Mario Kart .

Characters in Mario Kart 8 stay in the vehicle for the most part and they never stand up like they did in Mario Kart Wii when they win a thropy etc.

Most of the characters run , swin , dance , ride horses etc.

Plus the winning , losing and special animations

Plus the animated speeches in the Story mode and etc.

Theres way more to be animated in this kind of game.

Models in Mario Kart seem to be lower in quality too , like again , Mario Kart Wii Rosalina compared to Super Mario Galaxy Rosalina .