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Day 53 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Today’s game is Mario Galaxy. I decided today was my day to be productive for once, and I dumped all my Wii games ROMs for safe keeping, along with all my Blu-Ray discs. While I was testing the Wii Games to see if they worked, I got distracted by Mario Galaxy.

I chose this screenshot specifically because it shows off the water. Mario Galaxy is one of those games that has gorgeous water.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What a coincidence. Just yesterday I saw a video about how Mario Galaxy works from a technical perspective, and water was one of the topics.

As it turns out, the water effect was done by manipulating the floor texture with a noise pattern to make it squiggly, and then putting a transparent layer above. It looks pretty good and doesn't need much processing power.

I just thought that was interesting.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Nintendo + Water = beautiful efficiency