Posted by NWPlayer123

Spoiler! (click to reveal)

Posted by Splitwirez

Longish Letter-styled post imminent

Dear SMG2.5 Developers,
I have been watching this project progress for a long time, anticipating the next release. You may have never seen me around the forums before, but that’s because I only created this account now, to say this. When I heard that SMG2.5 was cancelled, I was rather crushed. I have been awaiting the next release for over a year now. If development has permanently ceased, then I have one (meant to be) simple request: Would you please be kind enough to release the stuff that has been made for SMG2.5? Say, a package of what could have been. That way, someday someone might resurrect this great endeavor, and the files could be built upon, rather than having to start from scratch because the files had sunken into the dark oblivion of someone’s deleted files, or succumbed to hard drive corruption. Even if there is a disclaimer regarding further use, it would make my day, and possibly that of many others as well. A re-upload of the SMG2 texture hacking tutorial would be great too. If I’m asking too much, I will understand. But I personally don’t care if the levels and such are severely broken, as that’s better than them being inaccessible. Without you guys setting an example (and your Planet Plains demo as a proof of concept) I probably never would have started making my (currently unreleased) Star Savannah Galaxy.
P.S.: Is there a Blender .DAE to .BDL converter? If not, then such a program could open up many possibilities for custom animations (Blender .DAE files can contain bones!), so I think that, if possible, it would be a good idea.

1) Everything we've ever done for SMG2.5 is either on the uploader or on my dropbox which I can dig through for you.

2) There's a new way to texture hack if you wanted it, but the only problem is that it uses chadderz' ctools, which for some reason don't work on my various computers >.<

3) We're still here to help if you need help making your level, that's what we're trying to do is build a scene so we have lots of levels and people making levels. IF you know anybody else who would want to do this, then we're more then willing to help.

4) Yes, we're well aware of how model formats work. The only hard part is reading them and converting the data. You have to know exactly what you're doing. And even doing that takes a long time, so it's more likely to fade off if we ever started anything more.

Posted by Polari

Hm, I'll check it out when I get the chance, but just a question- Where are the enemies?

Posted by Polari

Posted by Splitwirez

Posted by Polari

Hm, I'll check it out when I get the chance, but just a question- Where are the enemies?

None yet. Should I add some?

If you want it to be a level which you want people to play and enjoy, of course.

Posted by Luigi

Sweet, others have started making levels.
Also, you might want to make the world map model smaller....because I'm pretty sure that's a bit too big.
The level looks a tee-bit empty, so you might want to add goombas, plants, decorations, etc.
But not bad for a first galaxy!

Posted by Silver

Hey uhh Splitwirez, i'm not gonna play v1.1 until I see some screenshots. This is a friendly message, thanks.

Posted by Gmanextreme9

Whoa, This looks really cool! Nice work!

Posted by SuperMario64DS

I believe what little there was has already been distributed in some form. The "mark up" levels seen in the trailer had very little to them other than what you saw, at least from what I had seen myself.

There's not much to ask for.

Posted by NWPlayer123

What dafuq is that. It must be some object or area because I literally have never seen that before. Collision wouldn't do that thing unless you messed around with collision floor settings and set it to bouncy or something, and maybe not even then.

Posted by NWPlayer123

Voluminous Vortex had nothing to do with SMG2.5, you'd have to ask styg about that one. Rolling Halfpipe I can probably dig up when I have time.
EDIT: Nvm, it's on the uploader

Posted by Marionumber1

My Flying and Ice Mario hack, which if you look at it cynically, is the only thing we ever accomplished, can be found here.

Posted by Anthe

You sound a little obsessed. You might wanna take a break.

Posted by Luigi

There has to be a small line or something sticking out of the model...either that or something went wrong while converting it. Use Whitehole v1.2 just to look at the area to see what the hell was going on with it...

Posted by Stygmax

If you want the unfinished assets to Celestial Whateveritriedtorenameitto Galaxy, be my guest. I lost my SMG SD a while ago but I still have the files somewhere on my computer. PM me if you want them.

Posted by StapleButter

Interesting, but in practice, how does it work? I mean, do they have minimalistic interaction or do they happen to run into eachother as if they were alone?

Posted by Rainbow Mario

Wow, cool. I think he did it with one of the switch settings or something. DamianV8501 did it in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44--Zattoco