wait can you add custom tracks and characters to ctgp

9:04 not sure if it cut off

I enjoy your ranting and overall thoughts on things. I played a bit of this on my off time and while i enjoy some of the ideas presented, i do feel like not everything came together as well as it should have. Most of the things i have to say about it has been said by many other people though so... eh its ok but it could be a lot better.

Casually I enjoy the game even though it is very frustrating to play online with other players. Some maps have questionable layouts. Question how did you get the 3D models?

It’s so shit dude

Why i cannot see the skybox? I only see a black sky. Is the texture in a wrong format?

The water In the editor when I imported it looked really weird

Hii!! :) So, My only problem is the collision, Track Studio exports it successfully with all its materials and stuff, but i get no collision at all while testing in-game, using Yuzu.

is this al possible on a mac, like opening the TrackStudio?

Mt. Wario is my favorite course in Mario Kart, and I agree with you about it entirely

Considering that quite a few of DKR's tracks have blind turns in them, it's honestly fitting that one managed to sneak its way into a remake.

I genuinly first thought that this was an offical level. Great job!

I want a sequel to DKR so badly. Seeing the thumbnail I thought for a split sec that it was a remake! Excellent work, sir.

a video so good I might steal its format

This is very informative. I plan on using your tutorials to start my own custom tracks soon

I am in love with this. Hearing about the creating process as an outsider wanting to join the track-creating "scene" is incredibly helpful and inspiring. Additionally, the level of quality and effort in your tracks seems to be a whole step up from most other tracks I see. Awesome work and I'm excited to see more.

Your ethos as a track designer are unmatched in the Mario Kart modding community. I hope this series sets a new standard for the blind turns plaguing this community.

Cool video

I like this a lot! It's fun seeing the thought process behind a custom track.

Would love to see you talk about your process making Green Hill Zone. In my opinion, it has to be the best MK8 custom track of all time. Keep up the great work

Very interesting video! I liked how you structured it. I didn't even know you made this remake, though I have definitely seen it on other channels multiple times already. Very nicely done!

I plan to do a lightning overhaul since theres now a blender plugin for accurate 8 deluxe lightning, that even includes a texture swap from the roblox textures to the 8D textures since roblox ones look like blehh

I think that track was a really interesting experiment it's always crazy seeing tracks from other games being adapted to Mario Kart, my only minor gripe aside some lighting issues, it would be that the Bluey the Warlus reference is barely noticeable in game but it's overall a fantastic track. Ever thought on making CTR tracks for MK8?

This was awesome to watch! As someone who (1) discovered your KZfaq channel through your MK8DX track rating series, (2) has been a huge fan of your custom tracks since your MKWii days, and (3) has always wanted to create a track (but has nowhere near the skill or creativity to do it), I love watching explanations from experienced and talented track creators discussing how their tracks work and dissecting them. The Track Talk video concept is ingenious, and you structured and scripted the discussion very well. I agree with others who say it would be a lot of fun to see you collaborate with other MK8DX CT creators to make similar videos about their tracks. (To be honest, if I were you, I would hold off on doing a Track Talk on Green Hill Zone for a while because that track is, for good reason, quite famous; you could build up some anticipation if you waited a bit and discussed other tracks first.)

I enjoyed the concept and execution of your video. Would suggest, if u want to and find urself free time as well as other modders, participate in ur track talks. I feel the community would benefit from hearing some challenges and how they overcame them in the process. Good job on the video

I enjoyed watching this video, mainly cause the video isn't like 1 hour long talking about track elements. To be fair, that and seeing your custom tracks for Mario Kart 8 got me to subscribe to this channel for like 2 years now. It feels good getting to hear about how your course was made as well as all the ups and downs of Game Designing. I totally understand how you felt about motivation and the urges of completion with the sacrifice of bad designs. I have made a BUNCH of custom routes in EventLab from Forza Horizon 5 and a lot of my earlier works aren't that great in terms of quality. I do a bunch of "route revamps" now and some of my revamps even needs more tweaking since the developers at Playground Games keeps giving us new props to play with + we have new features including the ability to combine and make our own Props, as well as a freaking concrete island. I should probably start using that island and make my own set of props for consistency sake. You get what I meant. It is totally fine to redo a course you have already done, even many months later. My recent route revamp was literally a route I made since the launch of the game back in 2021, and I redid that route literally in March this year, mainly cause I was motivated by a really good update that was coming out for that game called Horizon Retrowave... mainly because new in-game radio station. My best advice to keep you moviated for a while in making a track is really chuck on some music in the background. Music is good for the mood and the soul. I literally started making Spotify Playlists last year in 2023 because I was already bored of the in-game radio stations... and the fact that EventLab is practically quiet when you're placing down props. If you're looking for some music to listen to and have a pretty varied taste in genres, check out my Spotify profile. I make a Playlist public every couple of months. I have Seasonal ones (Summer Smash, Awesome Autumn, Wild Winter, Spring Sprung & Holiday Hours), as well as Special ones, and even Artist Specific ones. I treat Spotify as like a Radio Station itself, so yeah... I am not buying Premium. No siree. I am excited for another Track Talk, and I genuinely don't mind when you want to release those videos. You do you. It is your channel after all. For the next episode, Cheep Cheep Cove screams out to be quite similar to DKR Walrus Cove with the whole try to showcase every gimmick of Mario Kart 8. I also don't mind hearing about your work on the Green Hill Zone course. I am a *BIG* Sonic fan. Grew up with Sonic since my early teens, and I'm 25 now. I am super duper excited for Sonic X Shadow Generations this year.

You did a great job on the track overall and it was cool to see your perspective and sort of behind the scenes commentary! Sucks to see Greenwood Village wasn’t finished, but I’d love to see you come back to it in the future!

Fantastic video! You’re honestly one of my favorite track creators, so I always wondered what the creative process was behind your tracks. Also, as a Game Designer, I totally relate to how you feel about projects. Almost every single one didn’t reach all the requirements I wanted, and I just wanted to finish it. I’ve always wanted to do modded level design though, and hearing some dev talk was a decent motivator for it. For the next episode…yeah I’d love to hear you talk about Green Hill Zone, seeing that it’s your most popular work and how generally terrific it is

Hi, Squadaloo! Could you make a video called "Vs. Egg Dragoon - White Park Zone Act 3 Remix"?

Triad playing MKWii in VR today, it sucked

Hey, Squadaloo! Can you do a Mario Kart 8 Deluxe custom track, “Sand Storm”? It’s based on my concept! Track layout: kzfaq.info/love/rxGpfnyR4aX7wqwWarXwYAcommunity?lb=UgkxpkWKyLtxkW2WvE5_iz4AU54JfAY2boDJ Music for this track: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z599i6aj0dPTpKc.html

I love Mario Kart

"they are evergreen trees they dont turn that color" so you never heard about larch trees huh?

I'd like to thank you for playing my GCN Mario Circuit! Onto explanations. This track was actually an "ehanced port" where I used the Wii model as a base and did a few model touch ups here and there, but most of the changes were textures. That is where the low-poly issue comes in. I plan to remake the entire track from scratch as I've felt like I've gained a lot of experience with modeling, lighting, and texturing since. Keep up the reviews, they've been helping the community a lot!

hey Squadaloo :) Thanks for playing RMX BC1 and thanks for the advices ! It was quite the work indeed to remake this track from scratch and 'm glad you like it ! (i'm also so happy to see it's the thumbnail of the video ☺)

Amazing video! So glad this series is back!

I really like the content you make but you need to amplify your voice in post, it's very quiet and I need a volume boost extension to be able to hear you clearly.

Back again with my revealingly premature comment. I'm not just being humble when I say that I was surprised to hear you say Shipwreck Shore might be the best looking custom track. There are plenty of things about its presentation, like a lack of waterfall particles and appropriate grass edges, that I've really been meaning to fix. As for the simple layout, this really bugs me because it really wasn't my plan to just make another glorified figure 8, but I only realised I'd made my third mushroom cup-esque track in a row when I was already too far into the modelling process. The name thing is funny considering it took me ages to decide on this one, it was called Urchin Cyclone for the longest time. You're totally right about the Dry Bones being a sort of unplanned addition. I was originally going to have big Yoshi Valley egg Urchins rolling around on the track but that looked weird. I've had some feedback that the waterfall's power should be reduced significantly, but I guess you wouldn't be a fan of that. Also I do hope you're aware of the various shortcuts you didn't take, there's two simple ramp things towards the start and a shipwreck you can drive across before the finish line.

Imagine if we got this instead of baby park

First VR ships outside of VR, now the opposite

Hey Squad (yes I know this is old, but I'm feeling lucky), I believe you never showed a way to create split paths, how can we do that ?

yo do you still answer comments from these videos?

1.2 is incredible, but i cant help but notice that the lighting in the interior of the castle in 1.1 is better. Something about the darkness with a subtle glow on the walls looks more polished