This project is a game mod I collaborated on for a modding jam in 2022, a race track called Fungi Falls. I was responsible for the modeling, the lighting, some texture painting, the modding into the game and animation.
Its main idea was a village of Mushroom-like characters in dense forestry near a gardenesque environment inspired by The Garden from the game It Takes Two.
For the baked lighting I wanted a mix between realism and aesthetic lighting, by using exaggerated emissive materials to make certain materials look as if they were glowing. I also used vertex colours to emphasise the lighting.
Since it is a mod for a Wii game, there were hardware limitations on what I could do, and as a result I had a restricted poly count. The textures are a mix of custom made texture painted textures using Blender and textures that are not mine from Super Mario Galaxy 2, Super Mario 3D World and Mario Kart 8.
This mod is for Mario Kart Wii, a Wii game by Nintendo EAD. I am not affiliated with Nintendo in any form.
