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Mario Kart 8
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Mario Kart 8

Racers

[40]

Pink Gold Peach (Suit)

Mii Costumes

[5]

Mii (Animal Crossing)

Karts

[34]

Tires

[7]

Leaf Tires

Metal Tires

Monster & Hot Monster Tires

Slick & Cyber Slick Tires

Slim & Crimson Slim Tires

Standard & Blue Standard Tires

Wood Tires

Gliders

[7]

Items

[17]

Course Objects

[134]

Blooper Space Shuttle

Boat

Boo

Boomerang / Hammer Bros.

Boost Ring (Mount Wario)

Hot Air Balloon (Mario Circuit)

Hot Air Balloon (Sweet Sweet)

Jack-in-the-Box Koopa Clown Car

Piranha Plant (Sweet Sweet)

Pokey

Propeller Guide

Question Block (Rainbow Road)

Satellites & Stations

Traffic Cone (Electrodrome)

Traffic Cone (Sweet Sweet)

Wario Stadium Start Sign

Warp Pipe

Warp Pipe (Electrodrome)

Warp Pipe (Sweet Sweet)

Courses

[32]

3DS DK Jungle

3DS Music Park

3DS Piranha Plant Slide

DLC Courses

[19]

3DS Neo Bowser City

Animal Crossing (Autumn)

Animal Crossing (Spring)

Animal Crossing (Summer)

Animal Crossing (Winter)

Wii Wario's Gold Mine

Wild Woods

Trophies

[10]

Miscellaneous

[5]

Astronaut Toad

Earth

Kart Pedestal / DLC Icons

Lakitu Referee

Mii (Mario Kart TV)

Unused

[3]

Fruit Basket

N64 Tree

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	Doc von Schmeltwick Oct 18, 2024, 5:14 PM
	I presume that any of these that were actually ripped from DX are exactly the same between the original and it, down to the texture resolution?

	ExoDendrite May 30, 2024, 2:46 PM
	GOD DAMMIT I MISSED THE 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY

	NolanSuperman May 13, 2024, 5:32 PM ^*
	Now, it's May 13th, which is exactly 2 weeks before the game's 10 year anniversary Edit: Now today is May 26th, which means.... 3 MORE DAYS UNTIL ITS 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY!! Edit 2: May 28, 1 more day until MK8's 10 year anniversary?!.......... OMG I CANNOT WAIT!!!!!!!!!! Edit 3: May 29. Today is the day to celebrate 10 years of this console game being released. HAPPY 10TH ANNIVERSARY, MARIO KART 8!! Well, For Japan BUT for America it's the day after that

	NolanSuperman May 1, 2024, 7:17 PM
	And now, it'll be 28 days until this game turns 10 years old, like, man!! Time certainly does go by so fast!!

	NolanSuperman Mar 22, 2024, 2:52 PM
	Now it's 2 months and 7 days until this game turns 10 years old, like dude, I'm getting old!!

	ExoDendrite Mar 10, 2024, 3:48 PM ^*
	In about 2 months and 19 days, this game turns 10 YEARS OLD. FUCK, I'm old! Edit: Now it's April 18th, just a month and 11 days until its 10 year anniversary... Edit 2: May 19th... 10 days... hooo boy... Edit 3:

	GalPal101 Feb 9, 2024, 5:25 AM
	@Neema Nannoki? I don't know but I assume it like how Blender works with the rendered mode, where its not applied to an object but that's a good question, maybe on Textures Resource and ask if they know since they ripped the textured

	Neema Nannoki? Jan 27, 2024, 10:05 PM
	This may be a stupid question, but I wanted to ask how the skybox is applied if none of the track models contain it individually? Is it a (set of) separate model(s) applied variably, or something else? I'm not sure myself because the skybox textures are on TTR but I haven't seen word of a corresponding model anywhere.

	GalPal101 Jan 20, 2024, 10:18 AM
	@NolanSuperman if you only imported the .mtl file then it won't work, try importing the .obj file specifically and see if it works

	NolanSuperman Jan 16, 2024, 10:00 PM
	Also I wonder if there could be a .DAE file for each track model

	Jzierse Jul 29, 2024, 9:03 PM
	Dang, same here. Oh well.

	NolanSuperman Jan 13, 2024, 11:43 PM ^*
	Hey, I downloaded every single track model, and when I was trying to look at them, they don't show up (except for Toad Harbor without any textures showing up). Is there a way to view them?

	GalPal101 Jan 1, 2024, 1:27 PM
	@PeachesCastle, okay, thank you very much for your help, I appreciate it, (btw I found a solution to the trees problem, the solution being to just open Baby Park and Big Blue because they had all I need) Again, thank you and have a good day

	PeachesCastle Dec 19, 2023, 1:23 AM
	@GalPal101 sorry only seeing this now Can't know for sure without access to the game files but either (a) the people ripping these models just forgot about Piranha Plant or (b) the game uses the exact same model for the track Piranha Plants and the item Potted Piranha Plant which would be possible but pretty surprising as I always thought items had a smaller poly count than track objects

	GalPal101 Dec 15, 2023, 2:11 AM ^*
	@PeachesCastle, okay, thanks... one more question before I go quiet, am I just dumb or is there no regular Piranha Plants in the track objects? I just find this a bit strange since the Sweet Sweet Canyon ones are there, maybe there's some reason for this idk, which is why I'm asking... thanks and have a good day

	PeachesCastle Dec 2, 2023, 1:18 PM
	Hey @GalPal101 welcome to the Videogames Resource. If you're looking for the tree models, chances are they're part of a course model, that's how Mario Kart 8 handles its tracks. You could also ask on the Discord in the #requests channel to see if someone with access to the source files could help you out

	GalPal101 Dec 2, 2023, 1:05 PM
	hello there, I'm kind of new around here and I was wondering if anyone knew where to find all the tree models from the game? I've tried looking everywhere but I can't find them, thanks in advance

	KartMakerBrosU Nov 15, 2023, 10:45 AM
	@DerpBox, @CrownGamer901. The bake maps are applied to a separate UV map from the main texture. Then, using parameters from the material in the original model file, it transforms and scales the UV map to fit to the correct parts of the texture. In terms of the operation of how to blend the colors, I'm not entirely sure yet, as Mario Kart 8 shaders are pretty complex.

	DerpBox Sep 22, 2023, 5:53 PM
	They're lightmaps, but I don't really know how to use them either...

	CrownGamer901 Jul 9, 2023, 12:45 PM
	@Centrixe the Dodo How do you use the Bake textures?

	Dakino Mar 13, 2023, 8:47 AM
	Yesterday I was at someone's stream and while their main game crashed on them, on PC, they decided they switch to this game instead. One map (or two) I glanced over from time to time looked like it comes from a Sonic game and I was 'wtf' about it ... to which some others said don't worry there is nothing original in any Mario games and could blend in with anything else ... To which I was like yeah true XD Just was still confused about it. For a moment I thought they switched to a Sonic racing game XD So coming here trying to find the map in question I realized this game actually have crossovers and for some reason have Sonic too XD However I couldn't recognize the track among these files. Could be Toad Harbour but no clue really ... some of them look alike. I remember it had palms, beach theme and city of sorts surrounding it. Looking at the files and the in-game graphics it's kinda night and day in comparison too

	BillyBnMOfficial Mar 10, 2023, 4:20 PM
	I sure am glad I already sent the Rosalina revision

	Centrixe the Dodo Mar 10, 2023, 2:59 PM
	Happy MAR10 Day, you all! Since as far back as 2021, I've been working on a solo project to revise all of the Racer models here to be updated within tMR's more recent standards, plus some additional bonuses I'd also like to share with our userbase! Here's an overview of what's been in the works: • Ambience Occlusion Maps • Missing Textures (MTL, OP, etc.) • Missing UV Maps • Proper / Centered Rigging • SMD Animations (Hopefully!) • And of course, new icons to showcase the previously-lost shading! A huge, huuuuge thank you to Random Talking Bush for helping me figure out how MK8's bake maps work – as well as formulating a way to generate 'em into fully functional textures! Even before I started this project, I'd always wondered how the game seemingly rendered extra shadowing onto the characters and environment without the usage of special lighting or some such... while I did suspect that the bake maps were key, I hadn't managed to get any further than that. (Well, aside from very stressful attempts at manually re-building entire Course shadow maps, let alone for a single Racer.) For this graphical mystery to finally be solved and even salvaged was absolutely incredible! With personal life and other stuff in the way, I'm hoping I can fully complete this update sooner rather than later.

	BillyBnMOfficial Dec 3, 2022, 7:14 AM
	P-Wing got rejected so I decided I'd fix some of those I had pending. Y'all gona split the uvs on everything else?

	DogToon64 May 31, 2022, 4:07 PM ^*
	Happy belated-eighth anniversary Mario Kart 8! :D