I tore apart "Zelda: Wind-Waker" on polycount

[Warby]

i thought some of you might find this stuff interesting as well:

http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=104415

[-HP-]

Oh I sure do, this is super duper interesting man! Cheers for sharing.

[RedYager]

Very interesting, you brought up some things I've always wondered about. I often use BMD view to look at some of the levels, Still haven't worked out what Windfall Island is called though

[Thrik]

This looks great! One of my favourite games and am looking forward to going through this.

[Warby]

thanks guys

what is bmdview ?

[RedYager]

Its a program you can use to view game levels in games such as Mario Karts (DD onwards), Mario sunshine, galaxy and the Zelda's ect, Plus you can view objects and characters and are even able to export as .Obj. So you can fly around and get up close to things, and use debug commands. People have used it to put Zelda levels in Mario Galaxy, crazy shit.

Wind waker in OOT (!!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8Dk5Bro0XU

Sunshine in Galaxy

This dudes not only brought the levels in, but gameplay and NPC's too

Wind Waker in Galaxy

if you'd like me to sort you out with it, let me know

[Thrik]

Haha, what the hell?! This stuff is blowing my mind.

[kikette]

Really nice stuff ! Thanks for sharing =)

[Warby]

yeah seriously mind == blown

so i take all these games use the same engine than ?!

[Thrik]

Just read the thread, an excellent thread. I was pretty impressed by how they did the whole sea/tessellation/scrolling texture thing.

Wind Waker really was an absolute wonder of design. When it came out I was totally bowled over by how good it looked, even down to things like having (what looked like) depth of field and shit like that. It was just beautiful from start to finish and an absolute masterclass in sophisticated game production.

[RedYager]

yeah seriously mind == blown

so i take all these games use the same engine than ?!

I think its more map and texture format, but all that stuff from Nintendo is likely on the same engine, or offspring's.

[KoKo5oVaR]

Very cool stuff warby !! thank you for that

[Sentura]

i aint a 3d artist, but holy fuck i love shit like this. great job

[insta]

Yeah, awesome to read through this. It's really fun to see how many tricks they used to get the most out of the hardware :derp:

[Algor]

Great stuff, thanks for the study! That was such a pleasing world to be in