Vertex Studio
Alfred Reinold Baudisch
Vertex Studio is a Godot plugin for editing, managing and painting vertex colors and vertex normals of 3D meshes. A complete solution for vertex painting inside the Godot editor. Vertex Studio is a...
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How to make a Banjo Kazooie (N64) style terrain shader in Godot (blended textures with vertex colors)
Alfred Reinold Baudisch
In this article, I explain how I created a Banjo-Kazooie (Nintendo 64) terrain and level material in Godot, with a Visual Shader, importing the terrain created in Blender, that makes use of two...
Vertex Alpha Tools: Blender add-on useful when making N64 and PS1 graphics
Alfred Reinold Baudisch
I have previously shown how to make Banjo-Kazooie (from the Nintendo 64) stylized terrain and environments with vertex colors and vertex color alpha. But, there are a few annoyances and small...
Banjo-Kazooie (N64) environments and levels: texture blending and vertex color usage
Alfred Reinold Baudisch
Banjo-Kazooie from the Nintendo 64 had environment and terrain details with blended textures (it is also called decal blending in some sources): This contrasts with Super Mario 64 where there was a...
DaisyDrive64
Antonio Maiorano
DaisyDrive64 is an N64 cartridge emulator by nopjne (aka Scorp0rX0r on Discord), that uses a Daisy Seed board. It’s similar to the PicoCart64, except that by using a more powerful MCU with more memory, is able to offer a more complete flash cart experience, including support for loading all...
BlueRetro AIO
Antonio Maiorano
I love the BlueRetro project, and on this blog, I’ve shown how I’ve made multiple DIY HW1 adapters for different consoles by soldering wires to DB25 connectors, and wrapping them up in DB25 shells. In this blog post, I’m going to cover a different way to make these adapters using PCBs and...
Drawing Triangles on N64
Ali Naci Erdem Personal Blog RSS
When developing my Nintendo 64 game Voidblade, an important step was rendering the triangles. The basic building block of any modern 3D pipeline is a triangle, even to this day (according to Brian Karis’s latest SIGGRAPH talk, it will probably take “many years” until we start using different...
Voidblade - a N64 postmortem
Ali Naci Erdem Personal Blog RSS
After more than 25 years of the release of the console, there is still a great Nintendo 64 homebrew community called N64brew (discord server here). Last year they organized the second game jam targeting the system, N64Brew Jam 2021 (source codes available here). Being hooked to the development for...