The Secret of the 2D Shadow Areas in Super Mario 3D World
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ม.ค. 2021
- How did Nintendo pull off those 2D sidescrolling shadow areas in Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury? It's pretty clever, so let's take a look!
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With Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury looming on the horizon, I thought I'd take a crack at this classic Wii U title that I absolutely loved! This will be the first of many videos!
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Edited by SwankyBox and Stowgee.
Concept by etra0.
Music credits:
"Underground Theme" - Super Mario 3D World - เกม
I got a really neat full length 3D World video in the works that I've been wanting to do for a while now. Except, I needed the collector's edition strategy guide to verify something first. Now that I have it, you can expect the video soon! Hope you all don't mind the short videos during the week while you wait for the longer content on the weekends! It's been fun experimenting!
Another Short Video
I love this rythm of uploads...
@Bob YEET I did too, that makes at least two WIIU owners...😅😆
Wowee!!!!
@Bob YEET me too, I love this game
I expected a long vid with you going out of bounds and an explanation but this works
Longer videos will still come out on weekends. I have a longer 3D World video in the works that I think people will enjoy!
Woah same
I guess but there really isn't much to say here and this was the most obvious answer
@@SwankyBox I hope you‘re right.
@@SwankyBox OK swanky
Looks like you’re going to the Shadow Realm, Jimbo
Great Show!
in the shadow realm: welcome to the shadow realm jimbo
0:44 "I attack your life points directly!"
Why tf did this make me laugh so much
Uh oh…
Seems really obvious, but thanks for showing this off anyways
I'm so freaking looking forward to soon replay 3D World
Same
Hey there !
I agree with you btw
Same, also when did you get a check mark?
That Game Takes To long to complete
Hi SuperWiiBros08!
One of the coolest aethstetic choices in a level in this game.
Donkey kongs silhouette lvs got it beat
@@TerryAVanguard oh yeah, effing love those but I am on abt 3D world exclusively.
"making it look like we became shadows ourselves"
I thought Mario kinda... phased into the wall.
Cool pfp
@@feeshwatr thanks..? I made it myself!
@spider da gamer ...I have no words.
@spider da gamer *N* *O*
Wow, didn't expect they were actually shadows.
it’s not a shadow it’s just the foreground projected on the wall with a shadow texture, no ray tracing for the shadows is happening
@@Yaser00 ... you know what they mean.
@@Yaser00 you knew exactly what he meant shut up
@@Yaser00 you didn't put much thought into how this was going to come off as, did you
@@Yaser00 r/iamverysmart
I just kinda assumed they were behind the wall, but while watching this video, it kinda clicked in my mind that they were far away.
Nice pfp where's it from
@@mihailmilev9909 My friend Acer, you can check more information about it on one of my recent descriptions, he's a really talented guy.
same. saved me the effort of typing out that comment
@@blanksky3342 Noice.
Yeah, I kinda figured that’s how they did it.
good for you
@@NiklasStrahammer good for you
“Almost similar to the 2D parts in SMO”
I swear this guy just writes these videos at 2 am
A short but sweet video! Nice! Also, these shadows were a really cool feature in some levels of 3D world. I’d love to see it be used more in Bowser’s Fury.
I’ve beaten this game 7 times. I know where every green star, stamp, and layout of the level is. I know every glitch in this game.
...But I did not know that.
*_-Return to shadow form-_*
Plot twist you are not the shadow, instead you encompass the rest of the world except wherever the shadow goes
Can't wait for it to release on switch 😀
@@arijanag2208 I made this comment when it was still coming 🤣😅 the fawk
@Philip Cummins Who pissed in your cereal
greetings protogen
You're great swanky, keep up the good content.
3D-World is literally one of my favorite games and I never knew that. This is very interesting.
Man, this is actually pretty cool. The short length makes it extremely helpful with understanding too!!
Amazing bruv, I still remember and love these moments
I like how the way they implemented this is actually the same as what's happening in universe.
I really wished they would have had more than one small part of a level with this shadow effect.
i havnt watched a Swankybox vid in so long, great to finally come back to it
I can hardly wait for that game to come out. 2 days before Valentine’s Day.
I've recently been revisiting an obscure Wii game called "Lost in Shadow"
I've always thought this was the case. Thanks for confirming!
Wow, that's interesting, even though it seems really obvious. Just proves that some of the best game designs are the most simple ones.
I actually noticed this first handedly in multiplayer, since if one player only goes through the door, then the rest will bubble and fly right through the camera. Totally broke the illusion for me!
This level was really cool for me. As an artist I really enjoyed it and wanted to draw some heavy shadows after I played it.
the artists def deserve some credit for giving the enemies such readable silhouettes
I’ve played this game and there are times I died. However the cameraman never died and even had time to play the sad music and do a closing transitions effect after I die. Probs to the cameraman for not dying and staying to work till I closed the game. That’s dedication right there!
That's why love your channel : it answers questions I asked myself and thought they were never gonna be answered...
Also this game brings up so much nostalgia and good playing-with-friends memories, I'm really looking forward for the big 3D World video incoming ! ^^
excited to hear about this!
Plot Twist: *The wall was originally supposed to hide questionable pictures behind it but they got removed in the final game*
I've always wondered how this worked. Thanks for the video!
“A game all about 3D exploration”
I have some bad news for you.
Well, you know what they say "if it's less than a minute, I'll give it a view"
That door is also a reference to the potion doors from Mario bros 2
Welcome to Subspace
This is really interesting! I have always wanted to know this! Thx man
Wow, I never realized you were supposed to " become the shadows" I just never made that connection
This is so interesting. I always wondered what they did for this
that's exactly how I thought it would've been done
Secret of super mario shadows:
*they are just freakin' shadows*
fun fact: the 2d odyssey part he showed us is a stage ive been stuck on since i unlocked mushroom kingdom
It's so weird getting to the end of the video without him saying "until the next videooooww..... cheers"
Hope we see longer 3D world videos! Cool!
If I ever was thinking about this I would have figured it out in a few seconds
I like these micro facts. Wouldnt mind seeing these become a staple while you work on longer vids :D
Some of us crossed the same bridge in a different direction. I had no idea the implication was they turned into shadows. The technique you discovered was how I interpreted the stage, shadows mimicking foreground movement, not transformation.
I thought this was gonna be how the shadow world fits into the rest of the mario world, but this is just as interesting ngl.
This is the quickest explanation of the shadows ever
Ah yes, the floor he is made out of floor.
I was thinking the same except with it actually behind the wall, since you can see a silhouette of Mario when he's behind objects.
I actually figured this out a long time ago when I first saw it, just here confirming it lol, thanks for the video! ^^
That must be one powerful and far away light to cast a near 1:1 shadow no matter where you are
That's actually genius, I was wondering that when I played the level at first and that was the only way it could make sense
"They restrict us to left and right movements"
Jumping: *Am I a joke to you?*
I don't think the effect they were going for was to make it look like Mario turned into a shadow, but instead it's supposed to be exactly what it is: he goes into the foreground and his shadow is being cast on the wall that the camera is focused on
Well, despite all the shadow, you managed to shine some light onto the matter.
I would’ve never thought of this if I was a game dev
All this time I thought that they were in a room where you can only see Shadows
I always thought of it like in paper Mario, where you'd be sent to the distance for a brief 2d section between pipes, but in the reverse.just with the camera staying on the background instead of the foreground that you've moved to.
So they just put Mario and the enemies in front of a light to make that section, I mean that’s how you would expect that to work but it’s kinda cool that it actually does work like that.
I love how it works exactly how I thought it would.
Wow! I just thought that the character was turned invisible or something! How do game designers think to do that!?
I actually came here on accident, but it showed me something really cool!
Shadow Play Alley is one of the most intuitive levels in 3D World. It’s definitely one of my favorites!
J'ai pas compris la vidéo
He went down and to the right and became a shadow monster man.
Bro goes to the shadow realm
You are my favorite channel! I think i have watched all of your videos! I always look forward to your new vids :)
I just figured they would make all the objects invisible but still with a shadow,
A simple, elegant and effective solution. Nice!
You know you can carry the potted piranha plant to do your bidding right
I never thought we were supposed to have become a shadow
I'm pretty sure that in Dark Souls 3 you control the shadow and not the character, because one time I was just playing around looking at the shadow physics and attacked, the shadow moved before my character did, it was very inspiring
I figured that's how that was done but I've always wanted to see what the area actually looks like
Its so obvious yet mesmerizing i love it and thought mario was just a shadow
I figured that they would've done some kind of model squishing technique against the wall, but apparently not.
I almost thought the shadows and the 3D models were 3 separate models.
wow this game never fails to amaze me
Nice! Appreciate the uploads
That's kinda what I always though happened, the turning into shadows sounds cooler though
This is what a thought was happening, cool to see it
I actually enjoyed that stage. This was an imaginative game. Probably why I thoroughly enjoyed playing through it. My brother Co-oped it with me.
I just realised the shadows don’t grow when moving toward the light source and they don’t shrink when moving away
I've never seen this level until today but I thought that was how it worked when u showed it :)
I had a feeling that's how this works.
I remember seeing a visual effect similarly back in 3d land, but finding a glitch to see the boundaries
these were really good stages
I can't wait until this game comes out on the switch
Shadow realm seems like big lie in this universe... I guess jimbo isn't getting cast into the shadow realm any time soon
Everyone before: they moved them off the camera
Everyone after: they moved them off the camera
How is it clever that is literally what I was expecting
Wow so the part that's just shadows uses shadows?
Amazing.
Short, Sweet and to the point. Why can't more TH-cam informational videos be like this?
This video is so short, that it appears as a short video on youtube.
That's because it is
@@thatsnogood6413 fair enough
This is my favorite level from the hole of Mario 3D world
I already was positive that is how it worked but its cool to see my suspension comfirmed.
So people didn't already know that?
Sorry smarty mcsmart pants that everybody on Earth didn’t think of of that.
@@icantthinkofaname8139 Sorry triggered mcangrypants that I thought a little simple fact was common knowledge.
What exactly tips a person’s mind off that obviously the character is teleported super far away to and put on an Invisible copy of the “shadow level”?
There are other ways this could of been done. Like if people who are aware of the fact mirrors in games are usally just inversed copied assets and cloned character models, they might think a similar principle is being used but now the real player is just rendered invisible.
I wonder if those were shadow volumes like the ones in Doom 3. They are so sharp looking
That’s why it’s one of my favorites
Hey I love this. Just some video that gets right to the point. Doesn't waste my time. Doesn't beg for stuff. Love it. Thanks for the cool video guy
I hope we see some 2D sections in Bowser’s fury