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#SuperMarioOdyssey tech art thread, let's a go! Feel free to respond with your own observations.

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1) Photo mode's 'silhouette' option is just the depth buffer. Could use this to make your own effects out of screenshots.

14/11/24, 5:52 pm1 repost17 likes

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2) There's a bit of weird shadowing on non-flat surfaces beneath Mario. It's especially visible on particles from jumping off your hat. This implies that the game doesn't render a normal buffer, because with that you could clip the shadow on very uneven surfaces.

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3) This hole is used in many walls early on. The shape always being exactly the same suggests Mario team uses brush-based level design tools.

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4) Here you can see the frog is slightly doubled. This is an artifact of using what's been rendered so far as the base for water refraction.

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Gist is to sample what's been rendered so far with UVs adjusted based on the camera's view direction to emulate the high refractive index of water. Because the water is rendered after all the opaque pass, the buffer already has the frog and that gets shifted down along with what's under the water.

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some related screenshots

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and a video - i do NOT understand what is going on

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oh whoa this looks like a billboard sprite with normal map for faked lighting