I'm not gonna be sad when you get illnesses and the doctor says to eat more fruits and vegetables

okay... I'll still be sad but

Chick Fil-A serves good food. You're making me hungry. Me, I'd like waffle fries and nuggets. I'm a simple lady.

Wait, how is the Super Mario Sunshine modding scene? Just wondering...

I don't see French cars where I am. Which is strange tbh. Do you Europeans see Toyotas, Hyundais, Lexus, Hondas, Nissans, and other Japanese cars that are ubiquitous here? As well as Fords and General Motors. I'd imagine there would be Volkswagens, BMWs, Mercedes, Audis, Volvos, and other German/British cars.

Posted by salty

Can I just say how off Mario looks in that picture? His left leg is too long.

Posted by Swingball

Yum.


Also NSMBU + NSLU is rumored for the Switch. Anybody stoked if the rumors are true?

Hell no. My Switch needs original games. I'm a Wii U owner who's owning all games that's getting ported to Switch, it seems.

I love how this Gmod screenshot turned out. To call it a "screenshot" isn't 100% accurate though, as it's a composite composed of multiple screenshots as layers in GIMP, using several blend modes such as Multiply, Soft light, and Screen.

Why not share a file of an audio clip that's in public domain instead?

Stupid artists. One thing about Smash Bros. that miffs me is that Mario is generally depicted as Mr. Angry Fighter Man rather than the happy go-lucky plumber. You also see this in the fan art too pretty often.

Posted by Thierry

the mario bros on a hunt for aliens, nice render. I wonder how many layers there were.

only nitpick I have is, the blood decal on the wall in the back. it's not spreading at all to the adjacent wall when it looks like it should. I guess that was too hard (or outright impossible) to position?

Actually, I sprayed blood decal on there, but the game didn't render it as I liked it to be, (as it seems to ignore the lights and fog) and there's no easy way to remove it without removing the characters and props all together. I was going to add some blood on Mario and Luigi through post processing (and I made selection areas very easy by creating a screenshot where they're one solid color and creating a layer) though I thought it would be too much detail that would detract from eyeballs focusing on them, and besides, I want to make it seem they just entered nice and clean. Anyhow, I have a few screenshots as layers that is supposed to mimic light effects: one that has light from the top, light from the ground (light bounces), and light from outside and I messed around with the highlights, midtones, and shadows just because a balance of those three generally looks nice. I also tampered a bit with gradient maps and I've created a one that makes Mario and Luigi more reddish to mimic skin tone (again taking advantage of the easy selection so I can single out Mario and Luigi). I wanted to add a little bit of misty fog at the ground but I'm no expert on that yet.

I wanted the shadows to look better, but that would require the map to be fully dark, and the map has built in lights, which has messed up the soft-lamps rendering, and so I had to resort to working with .jpg screenshots rather than the clean .pngs (though again, those .pngs don't take account into the nice depth of field effects) so maybe the image quality was impacted a bit, but not a game killer for me.

If you want a version with the blood on Mario and Luigi, though, I'll be pleased to make one.

Posted by salty

they must be hella strong to carry guns like those

All that carrying those hammers did wonders to their upper body strength.

If you play Gmod and are interested in making composite screenshots, look no further than this guide. I certainly borrowed some techniques from there.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OQ5nK11qKaOCNBT66Jd8Njf8vOkCmZe8Eywmn7JT2z4/edit

I do have more Gmod screenies



though composition screenshots are actually a relatively new technique I'm doing.

this is the other screenshot that uses it

He's supposed to be Metal Mario, but the metal doesn't render properly thanks to some weird material properties (as well as metal not being responsive to light sources, as it's consistently lit on its own).

I've heard about multiplayer, which sounds great, but is there anything, like quality of life stuff?

My neighbor thinks it's all right to operate those stupid and ridiculously noisy bush-cutting buzzsaws before even 9 in the morning. Screw that person.

Hey I remember having to deal with this probably as early as 6.

Just ugh.

Morning people.

Mood avatars don't?

I was at France at one point, back when I was 10, but I didn't recall seeing a lot of Japanese cars. Mostly like the European cars but also Peugeot and Citroëns.

That's frequent with parents, they don't appreciate the demands online gaming impose on players.