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Why does this level map from Super Mario 3D Land's World 8-2 appear white and snowy, despite the fact that it is a grassy level?
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Maybe the developers changed their mind while working on the game lol?
 
I was looking into it and it looks like a lot of level maps in 3d land are lacking color in their textures and appear white for some reason.

A "texture" is data that contains an image, color and usually has lighting stuff like how shiny the object is. Textures get put on all the surfaces in the game. That is why the ground appears "snowy", because that texture is missing color. This probably happened when someone was ripping the levels from the game.
Here's an example of Special 8-Crown. All of the blocks appear white because the textures are missing color.

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That honestly makes a lot of sense. Perhaps it's for saving data space on the game.
 
It's also possible that the mesh is colored using vertex colors, that's how they did it back in the n64 days when they used NURBS to make renders.
 
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