+Natok the Dragon [PresStarToPlay] sounds like you need to play the forest

The water from Super Mario Sunshine would still require less resources from a CPU / GPU, which makes it very advanced and innovator.

I've seen better, but that requires bumping settings on a pc with a expensive graphics card or playing on a ps4 pro or xbone x.

It’s good, but it’s not as good as everyone says.

@@gonk4509 Right? Everyone's exaggerating how good Sunshine's water is. Most games today have better water and every game with a focus on water definitely has better water.

Fucking legend

Hey man how are you doing? I responded to your comment 5 years ago lol

@@ibanghertightpoophole2850 liar

+Sequoya Waring Omg dude, I can't unhear it now. Are you proud of yourself!?

The water mesh is a plane that is animated using vertex animation, which is essentially just animation of the actual vertices of a model, rather than a "skeleton" that would control very specific sections of vertices in the model. For comparison, character models such as Mario and FLUDD are using a skeleton animation system. The water drag/trail behind Mario seems to be composd of a few elements. Firstly there appears to be an animated texture that's generated dynamically, used for the lines on the sides. Secondly is a rippling effect on the water that creates little circle textures that follow behind Mario. They might be particles of some sort. This is sadly all I could really find to answer some of your questions. I couldn't find anything on the water being tile-based, but it sounds logical and very efficient.

Aha, the plane follows Mario around, as said by Molten_ in the comments: "the water model is never repeated, it follows mario around. the uv map layers simply offset to look like the water isn't following mario, but if you pay very close attention to the waves it actually is." So instead of a bunch of tiles, it's one very big tile that follows Mario!

CrystalFissure Yeah tell me about it! I've been blown away by the positive reaction, it even reached the front page of r/gaming for a while! Glad you liked it, I'm already half way done with the script for the second in the series now!

+ClassicGameJunkie This is a great concept, I subbed just because of this single video. I'm definitely interested in more of these in-depth videos about game design details..

***** Didn't say anything about magic, just that they are really good at making water.

Jingleboy14 This! It doesn't look all that cartoony at all, it's actually quite realistic. Would like to know more about this.

Jingleboy14 Glad you think so! That's not the first Splatoon request I've had funnily enough. I have an idea how it works, but I'll have to do some research!

Goemon a best

Splatoon could have one of a few different methods for their paint. There's two in particular that come to my mind: First idea is that it's traditional decal rendering, like the blood and bullet holes in, say, Half-Life 2. However Splatoon would also be expanding on it by blending the decals together, as well as giving them shaders and such. Second idea is that the whole level has a UV unwrap, and an extra texture layer for the paint only. This paint is added onto that layer dynamically as the battles go on, and normal-maps and other necessary shader maps are generated by the engine as well. I'm most confident in the second method since, if it were implemented in a different game, it would probably produce something closer to Splatoon than the first method. I could also be entirely wrong in all this, but hopefully I'm not too far off!

Jingleboy14 its basically a decal, with tons of variations of it

That's a smart method of doing it. Good info!

DaXzOr I came here just to comment exactly that... glad im not the only one noticing it.

DaXzOr Thanks! The man's a national treasure!

***** Some people in the UK actually speak like this, you know!

solarblitzX I may well do an episode coupling that with Splatoons similar system! Thanks for the suggestion.

bigbangbot Indeed! I After I started game development myself, it felt kind of hypocritical to review other peoples games!

The different mipmap levels act as a mask that has a sort of "cut-out" effect going on with its transparency. In short, the darker a pixel in the mask is, the less that pixel will show up. But the game also runs a "cut out" that cuts specific pixels to get a solid, opaque idea of the mask's information. It's similar to how Paper Mario's characters have sharp edges. Certain mipmap levels are also set up in a way that makes very specific distances have a higher brightness than others. You're correct - this gives the effect of the water reflecting light from the sun.

Cool, so my intuition was correct. Thank you! That's a really useful little technique.

+Kyle Silva They probably used the system's MAC address. A MAC address is a static unique identifier given to every hardware trying to access a network and, unlike an IP address, is not dynamically generated by an outside source. Since the MAC address is given to the hardware at the factory and cannot be modified by the user on a game system, it makes the perfect unique ID to use. Another way of doing it would be to use the system's serial number if it is in the system's memory.

+Benoit Desnoyers Or checking the current date and time: 3/13/2016 21:02:34

+Mandatorial The CPU requirements of this effect are zero, but it does add two rasterization passes, and the GPU of the Wii is simply not particularly fast. So they probably decided to limit the game to 30fps in software to avoid the nasty switching between 30 and 60 fps during the game. Perhaps not just because of the water, because the rest of the objects are likely not to be much easier to render. On PC, you have the inverse issue: a typical CPU has borderline sufficient performance to emulate the various Wii logic units and the inherent complexity of the system, but a typical GPU has a ton of rasterization performance to spare compared to the Wii. Thus simply editing the game executable to remove the 30fps limit should be sufficient.

+Siana Gearz sorry, I'm not fluent in CG-lingo ;P so you're saying that they probably did remove some of the water effect to achieve the 60fps? Or not at all because the PC is strong enough either way?

Mandatorial I'm saying that the 30fps limitation was probably mostly artificial to begin with and probably not really just because of water, but because of a larger combination of factors. And that i can't imagine that any graphics changes were needed (or indeed possible without breaking everything) to remove the limitation. And that specific weaknesses of Wii hardware are not present on PC, though PC has its own weaknesses, so it's difficult to reach Wii performance on PC while emulating the whole Wii system in the first place, but when you reach that performance, you still have a lot of specific performance reserves left on PC that you can just unleash.

The 60fps patch wasn't performance related; it simply slows down the game logic by half, effectively producing twice the frames. The game is then sped up by 200% by outside methods (adjusting cap to 60fps) which gives the impression that the game is running at regular speed at 60fps. The 30fps cap being present was, like you said, a result of implementing the water effects.

Landy R. Shambles interesting, but how couldn't you then use this method to make all 30fps games magically run 60fps?

HASEnoncorperated Ooh now that is an idea, Resident Evil also did the same thing. I will certainly add this to my list, thanks!

TheWaveringRadiant That is what sunshine uses, they just have custom mipmap steps as opposed to an auto generated one. The effect is stored as a mipmap and not a different texture.

Anthestudios the walls aren't counted in the scoring, so your method would likely still work.

brendoshi They're not, but I can still see where my teammates or enemies have sprayed on the walls. The data also needs to be transfered.

Wave race on GC has the best most vibrant and detailed water i ve ever seen

Czarek Chodun 3D skyboxes existed long before Source

No , SMO water looks very gelatin like

Okay I'm here 3 years later and watched again. You still missed the refraction component.

i just remember comparing it to that times ratchet and clanks water, wich looked like ass

SkaiCyan honestly sunshine stull has better water than any games made today, an it's 15 years old!

And Waverace blue storm water is superior to anything else i ve seen to this day . I hope nintendo release a new version for the switch

Make your own. The it's all available in the material editor. Open photoshop and copy the methods used for sunshine if you like.