Originally posted by VL-Tone

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About that 0x14 command, it's a very interesting find! I managed to achieve billboarding in TT64 and was looking for a way to know which object use billboarding. I was a little disappointed to find that simple objects like trees and coins don't use the 0x14 command. But what I just found solves the problem: the 0x21 behavior script command sets the whole object to billboarding!

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Originally posted by messiaen

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Trees, Mr. I and the flames are examples of objects which use this kind of effect. Since Mario64 is vey low-polygonish, this is a good trick to cut the number of polygons.

In the Goomba, it is used in the body. Rather than using a complex 3D structure such as the head, it's just a simple square (formed by two triangles) with a texture applied and the billboarding effect:

200FEC: 1400 0000 0000 0000 <-- Enable Billboarding for next 

200FF4:   0400 0000

200FF8:   1504 0000 0801 B690 <-- Body (not animated). Uses texture #382.

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Originally posted by Boing

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Originally posted by Stevoisiak

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To make some of these things clearer, can you post images for those of us who cannot do this ourselves?

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I don't particularly see how images would help hex editing...

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Originally posted by Blaster

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I have been making a mod lately but I have run into a problem. The camera often won't turn the whole way round in lakitu cam mode.

This means that if the level goes in a certain direction, the camera can't be rotated to face the direction the level goes in.

I know this is normal in SM64, but in SM64, sometimes the camera will change, like for example, if you walk past the bridge in BOB (but under it), the camera will lower, it will turn slower when you turn it but will turn the whole way around.

I looked in TT64 for an object that might make the camera do that but there was none. Are there camera changing objects that you can't edit in TT64? If there are, and if I could edit them, I would put some in my modded level to make the camera change.

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Originally posted by messiaen

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I seriously need to organize the music data into a document , but I'm glad some of messy notes helped you.

I've updated the site mainly with some disassemblies of simpler collision rountines. Here is a product of this: a (crappy) custom collision terrain. It replaces the 0x0A (Death at the bottom) terrain, however it's possible to create new collision types with a bit more work.

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Originally posted by Blaster

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A way to edit the hard coded camera moves in TT64.

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Originally posted by messiaen

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That could be a problem, however Celux was quite sucessfull in the "cave part" of his "Star Legend" mod. If you leave enough space between walls the camera can adjust in a good pace, so I think the concept might work.

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Originally posted by VL-Tone

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There are some areas in Hazy Maze Cave where the collision type on the floor triggers a special camera mode that's ideal for narrow passages. (The tunnel leading to the chrome water puddle).

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Originally posted by messiaen

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Sorry, it's pretty much impossible to do that, these are complex models.

As stated before, the idea is to work with the limitations of the patch and learn more about what kind of problems may happen on an extensive Mario 64 hack.

If you want to try something simpler, make a "intermediate" area, such as a tunnel of some sort, or some "dark forest area". My idea is that before reaching the levels, you must travel some intermediate areas, and if you explore them well you may find interesting stuff, such as the minigames.

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Originally posted by messiaen

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The 'base patch' (as I call it) is available a few messages ago. Don't forget to replace the description files (the .txt included in the zip file), these should go in the main TT64 folder.

I'm not sure if Koopa the Quick will be able to recognize the objects collision, but that you can test yourself. Koopa the Quick will crash your level for now, but I'll release pretty soon a modified version of the "Koopa trajectory modifier" which is compatible with this patch.

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