Modeling Peach's Castle for MKA

Part of remaining faithful to our inspiration for Mushroom Kingdom Adventure will be our major attempt to recreate Princess Peach's N64 era castle, as you see it pre-rendered with superior polygon counts here in the openings of Mario Party 3 and 4 (top and bottoms photos to the right). Our attempt at re-creating this entrance to the castle, which we started today, are going great so far. Using the right optimization methods, we should be able to get the castle to look about just as good rendered in real time in MKA. All details you see in the picture to the left were created today; all texture images mapped onto the current structures that you see here were actually modeled out in high-poly 3d, then pre-rendered into 2d textures by us. We are going to keep working at this, and our methods of compositing multiple layers of detail are going to look great in-game as well as in our pre-rendered videos.

Did we mention we are actually combining the Paper Mario 64 castle with this one, and are currently drawing blueprints to plan out how we want to connect the river and moat around the courtyards? More info is coming on that once we have a definite plan. What we do know is we are laying out the castle so that the Super Mario 64 castle is the north entrance and courtyard, while the Paper Mario castle entrance, which leads to Toad Town, will be the southern entrance and courtyard. Yes, we are actually doing a modeling of Peach's Castle on such a large scale, that the exterior will be physically proportionate to the interior, and you will also be able to see the castle in the distance from other far away locations. The road known as "Royal Raceway" will also appear outside of the North Entrance.

Mushroom Kingdom Adventure is a tribute game to Nintendo® that incorporates characteristics from Paper Mario™, and Square-Enix's Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars®, as well as other Nintendo® games.
Mushroom Kingdom Adventure software built on Unity® by Vinfreild™. Graphics generated by Vinfreild™. This game will not see a public release until clearance is received from Nintendo in the future.
Super Mario™ and related themes, characters, and games are ™ and © Nintendo®.
Vinfreild™ is managed by the Vinfreild Group.

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