Comments on: Super Mario Galaxy: A Visual Tour

By: W.O.R.D. Truth

W.O.R.D. Truth — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 03:23:33 +0000

The effects that are used in the game area really awesome. The water effects look great too. Like you said the fur on the bee adds a nice touch. When you reach the lava-squid boss on the first planet you will see a cool looking slick/glossy effect on the little planet that this creature lives on. Nintendo really does an excellent job on all of its games, this is no exception!

By: Sam Hart

Sam Hart — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 02:13:24 +0000

One data point on this is that the fur shading used in this game looks very similar to what was used before in Starfox Adventures for the original GameCube. If you check it out, you’ll see that there’s all sorts of “fur-like” effects (from the grass on the ground, to actual fur on Starfox). And it looks very much like what we see in Super Mario Galaxies.

Actually, as I’ve been playing the game, I’ve noticed a lot of effects I had noticed earlier in other GameCube games. You just never saw them all together in one game before

By: wiiboy101gezza

wiiboy101gezza — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 20:57:48 +0000

flipper nevermind hollywood, supported realtime multitexturing with full support for bump normal mapps, cube mapping, colour texture blending, combining, stencil lighting, all round realtime lighting fake hdr lighting,motion blur,heat haze,realistic water mapps,realistic water physics,and a whole bucket custom hardwired low jit on hardware effects including wire frame shaders aka fur and crass shading shadowing self shadowing etc etc etc

hollywood is a version 2 of that gpu so more of thesame with increasaed efficencie and monster fillrate and a fine tuned system so gpu can be maxed out at set 30 frames or set 60 frames

galaxy is full of extream fill rate and custom effects belowing smoke and fantastic lighting with insane on screen action at 60 frames no slow down and high res colour

a wii maxed out at 30 frames must be a sd turbo resolution monster turbo refering to how the machine is fine tuned to excel at that resolution

By: gamerborn

gamerborn — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 17:13:38 +0000

dont forget high speed balanced memory ,and cpu gpu co processing ,and the unic virtual texture design trick, and gc/wiis abbillity to fake tile rendering tricks that vastly increase the accual performance per texel per polygon hollywood is a custom gaming only gpu with a mixed bag of tradition and tile render type hardware and nintendo required hardwired effects “”"HOT WIRED EFFECTS”" AS FACTOR 5 CALL THEM CUSTOM NOT PC GPU LIKE AT ALL

By: uk coder guy

uk coder guy — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 19:07:55 +0000

16 stage programmable real time shader tree,8 layers single pas texturing,high texel fillrate plus virtual texturing,hardwired custom effects,custom cpu graphics co-processing all supported by wii……nintendoware version 2 of wii dev tooling will increase performance still futher

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no posts for a long time… « Felix in Hilversum — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:32:32 +0000

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By: James

James — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 05:53:38 +0000

I think I read in an interview someplace that they stuck with boring shadows for gameplay purposes. Although crazy, realistic shadows are really pretty, it’s harder to judge exactly where you’ll land with them.

By: magisticman

magisticman — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 18:22:12 +0000

32gb bandwidth and 27mb superfast 1tsram right on the gpu or gpu die before you even start using motherboard main ram… thats not counting compression and realtime decompression, latency (ram speed) and bandwidth and compression are HUGE when considering the native resolution wii runs at the hollywood gpu is allso a fake tile rendering system substainable fillrate bandwidth and effects INGAME are near 360ish minus the native resolution of 720p witch is 480p on wii mario galaxy probably dosnt max wii out so imagine the wii maxed out at half that framerate at 30 frames solid wii can hit BIG BIG GRAPHICS NO PROBLEM

By: PRITTYINPINK

PRITTYINPINK — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:01:09 +0000

dont forget dual geomitry and lighting engines gpu onboard G&T (T&L) HARDWARE PLUS,

broadway cpu supports custom geomitry and lighting (t&L) all geomiry and scipt for both gpu and cpu supports 4to1 data compression

imence geomitry and lighting transformation supported in game

By: Cobalt

Cobalt — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:48:36 +0000

The developers of Twilight Princess chose to create the soundtrack using MIDI rather than full orchestral to make the music more dynamic, which can be heard when Link attacks a boss, or when entering a regular battle. The instruments blend rather than the whole song fading into another. It also makes the music seamless. I noticed problems with Shadow of the Colossus when you climb aboard a boss.

By: wiiboy101

wiiboy101 — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 04:38:02 +0000

good point cobalt people forget how good wiis sound chip is amy ways oh it aint digital out who cares its a fully programmable 64 channel gaming sound processor with truely deep sound capabillitys and pro logic 2 2x out put

combined with that big disc ansd streamed music in game sound on wii is like x360s - digi out BUT ADD IMURSION IN UR HAND SOUNDS AWITCH MAKES MORE SENSE IN A GAME AS ITS A GAMING SOUND INNOVATION NOT A MOVIE SOUND INNOVATION

AS THROING LINKS BOOMERANG PROVES

By: siobhaun

siobhaun — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:04:38 +0000

Super Mario Galaxy is a the most awesome Mario games out of all of them and I’m major Mario fan, anytime I play any game system I would always want to play any Mario game old new I DON’T CARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Studio7

Studio7 — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 01:59:47 +0000

I understand you lot certainly know your stuff.
I’m trying to emulate the planet textures within Galaxy,
but I struggling being very new to it all.

I was wondering If someone highlight the main techniques used to give the grass (velvet like) textures, shaders used, and general modeling tips?