Wave Race 64 Soft Mod [Archive]

The Dave

March 26th, 2006, 04:09

http://img111.imageshack.us/img111/8840/top9mt.jpg

WaveRace 64 Soft-Mod version 0.1

This is a hi-res replacement mod for Wave Race 64. Inspired by cel-shaded work, the goal of this mod is to give the game a softer, cartoon like feel. It is in my opinion that a realistic pack wouldn't work well with the game's low polygon count.

This pack is currently still in development, and is being released to help get feedback, and because with limited time to work on it I felt it's at a state I can release. This is why I am labeling this version 0.1, I will go to 1.0 once I have every texture included.

Textures that cannot be replaced:
These textures, for whatever reason, cannot be replaced by Rice's plug-in.
- Full Screen Start Screen Logo
- Opening N64 Logo
- Marine Fortress Sky

Known Missing Textures:
- Stunt Mode Point Numbers
- The word "Stunt" when completing a stunt
- 2nd Place rank during Stat scroll at end of championship
- 2nd, 3rd, and 4th place rank titles shown at end of race
- Time Up graphic (Well it's there, but the order is messed up)
- All riders and animals

Known Issues:
- Crowd in Sunny Beach not tiled at all
- Many of Drake Lake is not really done, that one hump is a place holder and the ground under the trees needs to be revised

I'm probably forgetting a ton of things on this list, but I rather just post this already instead of thinking about the specifics of the mod.

Pack available at http://www.emulation64.com/files/info/1041/

Vanit

March 26th, 2006, 08:00

Mirrored (http://www.vanitstudios.com/Files/Mirrors/WAVE RACE 64.zip).

darknior

March 26th, 2006, 11:28

Thanks to make this new forum for your work :D
And explain stats of your work too ...

I like your work ;)
Do you think you will end it ?

The Dave

March 26th, 2006, 22:13

I promise I will have the game 100% retextured eventually. It's actually fairly close now, like 90% or more.

I really wish I could retexture the main logo, I would switch it out to the one in my sig. I got the textures for it, but I guess they're encrypted like the Zelda pre-rendered BGs.

Dr. Soong

March 27th, 2006, 06:45

OMG I am so happy! This game looks sooo good now its amazing! Huge thanks to 'The Dave'! :)

darknior

March 27th, 2006, 14:53

I understand :D
I dont know this story of encrypted texture like in "Zelda pre-rendered BGs"

I think you can't do nothing, if the video pluggin not update this fonction, no ?

The Dave

March 29th, 2006, 08:43

The ability to replaces such textures may never be available.

So has anyone tried this? Anyone want to give feedback. That was the reason I released it. The game is almost fully textured, I thought you kids like that.

Vanit

March 29th, 2006, 11:03

I'm afraid this game has a very small fanbase. For this same reason I stopped working on my Goemons Great Adventure pack, which has only had around 50 downloads to date.

Kerber2k

March 29th, 2006, 11:07

I downloaded the pack not too long ago. Simply brilliant whole new feel to the game as I expected, the only thing that bothered me is the water effects...I mean they were better represented in-game than in the pictures obviously, but there might be better ways to create the effect your going for no? I couldnt even find the watter effects to test different methods so there no way I could know for sure, but I have ideas. I feel whatever comes next will be more of the same, and this is good. Finally a consistantly good pack is on its way to completion. Kids make up a good portion of the community, and not to say that their input isnt welcome, but I belive it needs to be constructive for the most part. Im just a kid at heart anyhow....:bouncy:

The Dave

March 29th, 2006, 17:11

Kerber in this current pack ther is a folder called "Water" if you want to try your own hand at playing with the effect.

bridegur

March 30th, 2006, 03:19

This looks brilliant, I can't wait for the whole thing. GREAT job.

takas

March 30th, 2006, 12:27

Nice job. i enjoy this pack a lot :)

Risio

March 30th, 2006, 20:36

This pack has that certain quality to it that makes people actually want to play it. Great work!

bridegur

March 31st, 2006, 00:12

I don't mean to be a bother, but I've searched through the help threads and I have no idea what settings I should be using. I'm dying to try this pack, and it loads, but it's not working right. What are the recommended settings?

The Dave

March 31st, 2006, 02:20

Define, "loads, but it's not working right."

bridegur

March 31st, 2006, 02:59

Well, the textures all load correctly, but everything seems to be flickering, a lot of textures often overlap each other, and the sky goes black a lot. Any ideas?

By the way, despite the technical troubles, it looks like it's going to be perfect. Good job so far!

bridegur

April 1st, 2006, 00:40

Okay, I figured it out, I needed to turn on the vertex clipper. All the textures look good now, but does anyone have any tips for speeding it up?

The Dave

April 1st, 2006, 02:30

Sadly no, I was wondering if there would ever be a way for rice to make a "run at 60fps) option in his plugin because wave race could definitely use the boost.

djlarz

April 5th, 2006, 20:49

The download link doesn't work. Says it's expired.

The Dave

April 5th, 2006, 20:52

Ok, updated.

Cönker

April 9th, 2006, 10:43

I'm afraid this game has a very small fanbase. For this same reason I stopped working on my Goemons Great Adventure pack, which has only had around 50 downloads to date.
NO WAI, I love that game you should continue, I never knew it was retextured.

djsolidsnake86

April 10th, 2006, 22:11

fantastic hi-res textures! when a new version? please please :)

The Dave

April 11th, 2006, 02:30

There may not be a new version out until after May 10th when my semester is over.

EmuFan

April 11th, 2006, 16:15

Can´t wait until mine is over, i have the toughest one!

djsolidsnake86

May 1st, 2006, 14:50

news?

The Dave

May 1st, 2006, 22:02

As I predicted, I won't be able to get any work started on this again until after May 10th. Then I'll touch-up Drake Lake, try and finish the Stunt Mode stuff, then take a break to get Hi-Res Central up and running, and then finish up the little things.

djlarz

May 5th, 2006, 10:15

NO WAI, I love that game you should continue, I never knew it was retextured.
Yes, please continue, Wave Race roxx my shorts off :borg:

nexis2600

May 5th, 2006, 20:52

Textures that cannot be replaced:
These textures, for whatever reason, cannot be replaced by Rice's plug-in.
...
- Opening N64 Logo
...

I dont know if someone mention this or not but the opening n64 logo cant since it's not drawn by the plugin. It was a image in rom copied directly to the framebuffer by the cpu.

Just though I would FYI.

The Dave

May 5th, 2006, 21:18

Must be the same for the others then?

Dr. Soong

May 6th, 2006, 01:31

good luck on your exams :)

djsolidsnake86

May 10th, 2006, 10:28

10 may today! :)

Sirmatto

May 10th, 2006, 18:31

10 may today! :)
He actually said AFTER May 10th, so you're a day early. And if he's like me, he's probably "incapacitated" for a few days after finals ;)

The Dave

May 10th, 2006, 20:23

Hahahaha, yeah I'm back home and definitely using the rest of this week to relax. I'll probably start messing around with Drake Lake tomorrow, then after that it's going to be hard to get back into the groove of remembering what needs to be done and all that, but I think Stunt Mode HUD was my biggest to-do.

Hell, maybe I'll go after all the animals.

djsolidsnake86

May 24th, 2006, 01:22

news dave?

The Dave

May 24th, 2006, 06:44

Well I probably got myself involved in too many things.

I did do some work with this though, but nothing exciting. I'll give you examples of the non-exciting stuff I've been doing.

Image 1: New Rock Texture in Marine Fortress
Image 2: New texture for whatever that building is in Marine Fortress
Image 3: New texture for little island in Drake Lake
Image 4: New Rock Texture in Glacier Coast
Image 5: Fixed tiling of mountain bg in Drake Lake

Stupid stuff like this that tweaks the pack is what I'm going over now, so I can sort of ease myself into working with this mod again. It's hard to just jump right back in after taking months off and not remember where I was.

Sirmatto

May 24th, 2006, 06:48

Looking good. Hope you're having a fun post-final time...

hyperterminal

May 24th, 2006, 09:36

Looks great! Please keep up the good work!

BTW: Is it possible to improve the textures of the riders or are they made of polygons?

The Dave

May 26th, 2006, 08:02

The riders do have textures, but their blocky appearance is because of their low polygon count.

After I finish the coding for the Hi-Res dedicated website Vanit and I are working on, I will work on all the marine life in the game.

Noglory

June 7th, 2006, 13:09

I downloaded this pack waverace is a good game, good work the dave.. but, i was geting slow downs. 30 fps, so i started puting textures in folder by folder. When i got to bouys my FPS drop bad.. so i del red yellow folders under bouys

And then game runs Great.

2.4ghz, 512 ram, GeForce 4 4200 with 8XAGP new drivers

The Dave

June 7th, 2006, 22:57

Are you saying the game went faster because of the way the textures were organized or because you eliminated them?

Maybe your video card can't handle all of it? I run it with no problems other than the naturally low framerate.

Noglory

June 8th, 2006, 00:04

no the bouys was making the game go slow. I deleted, Yellow and red bouys..and now the game runs Great! i get 60fps and no slow downs. all so zelda cell shade runs great no slow downs at all.. all my N64 games run Great with 60fps!

I use Project64 1.6..i test N64 games on all plugins and setings. I edit the notes to tell me what game plays best and what plugin and seting to play it on...

ricktendo64

July 24th, 2006, 01:11

In the future can you guys use 7zip compresion for smaller filesize?

Better all the way around, less bandwith and so on

ChrisXPZ

September 2nd, 2006, 12:13

how do u put the textures in the rom file?=]

Rurounin

September 2nd, 2006, 17:52

how do u put the textures in the rom file?=]

Extract the files to- "wherever you have your emulator\Plugin\hires_texture\WAVE RACE 64"
(D:\spel\Emulators\Nintendo 64\PJ641.6\Plugin\hires_texture\WAVE RACE 64 in my case)
and you should be good to go.

ChrisXPZ

September 2nd, 2006, 20:40

Extract the files to- "wherever you have your emulator\Plugin\hires_texture\WAVE RACE 64"
(D:\spel\Emulators\Nintendo 64\PJ641.6\Plugin\hires_texture\WAVE RACE 64 in my case)
and you should be good to go.

so do you activate it or does it automaticly turn on?:arabia:

Rurounin

September 3rd, 2006, 01:17

so do you activate it or does it automaticly turn on?:arabia:

This is based upon PJ 1.6 cause that's the only one i have installed at the moment but you should be able to figure it out if you use 1964.

First you obviously need Rice's video plugin found here (http://www.emutalk.net/showthread.php?t=26442) and extract it to your plugin folder.

Next you need to select the plugin from the list in Options -> Settings -> Video (Graphics) plugin:

Select this... (http://www.emutalk.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=33883&stc=1&d=1157237732)

Press OK

Next go to Options -> Configure Graphics Plugin -> General Options:

Uncheck this... (http://www.emutalk.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=33885&stc=1&d=1157237732)

Press OK

And finally go to Options -> Configure Graphics Plugin -> Texture Filters:

And check this. (http://www.emutalk.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=33884&stc=1&d=1157237732)

That should do it if i haven't forgotten anything, Cheers :party:

ChrisXPZ

September 3rd, 2006, 02:34

This is based upon PJ 1.6 cause that's the only one i have installed at the moment but you should be able to figure it out if you use 1964.

First you obviously need Rice's video plugin found here (http://www.emutalk.net/showthread.php?t=26442) and extract it to your plugin folder.

Next you need to select the plugin from the list in Options -> Settings -> Video (Graphics) plugin:

Select this... (http://www.emutalk.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=33883&stc=1&d=1157237732)

Press OK

Next go to Options -> Configure Graphics Plugin -> General Options:

Uncheck this... (http://www.emutalk.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=33885&stc=1&d=1157237732)

Press OK

And finally go to Options -> Configure Graphics Plugin -> Texture Filters:

And check this. (http://www.emutalk.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=33884&stc=1&d=1157237732)

That should do it if i haven't forgotten anything, Cheers :party:

when i try to extract the plugin it says

! C:\Program Files\Project64 1.6\Plugin\RiceVideo-6[1].1.1-beta10-src.rar: CRC failed in Config.cpp. The file is corrupt
! C:\Program Files\Project64 1.6\Plugin\RiceVideo-6[1].1.1-beta10-src.rar: Unexpected end of archive

and its not in the plugin menu

I use PJ64 1.6:smurf:

Rurounin

September 3rd, 2006, 03:08

when i try to extract the plugin it says

! C:\Program Files\Project64 1.6\Plugin\RiceVideo-6[1].1.1-beta10-src.rar: CRC failed in Config.cpp. The file is corrupt
! C:\Program Files\Project64 1.6\Plugin\RiceVideo-6[1].1.1-beta10-src.rar: Unexpected end of archive

and its not in the plugin menu

I use PJ64 1.6:smurf:

You're supposed to download "RiceVideo6.1.1beta10.rar (http://www.emutalk.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=23107&d=1111864029)", not the one with src at the end.

Download BMGlib.rar (http://www.emutalk.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=22952&d=1111591000) too (not sure where you're supposed to extract that but in plugins and main folder should do it, one of them is right ;P).

And it seems you didn't quite download the file properly, but it dosn't matter since it's not the right file =]

ChrisXPZ

September 3rd, 2006, 03:30

You're supposed to download "RiceVideo6.1.1beta10.rar (http://www.emutalk.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=23107&d=1111864029)", not the one with src at the end.

Download BMGlib.rar (http://www.emutalk.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=22952&d=1111591000) too (not sure where you're supposed to extract that but in plugins and main folder should do it, one of them is right ;P).

And it seems you didn't quite download the file properly, but it dosn't matter since it's not the right file =]

i tried extracting it to its own folder in plugins and directly into plugins wwhere do i put it its not working

EDT: plz respond need help

ChrisXPZ

September 3rd, 2006, 11:19

ha i duno how but i got it working finally lol:bouncy: :nemu: :batman: :king: :drool: {}:{ :homestar: :borg: :sombrero: :party: :party: :party: :party: :party: :party: :party: :party: :party: :party: :party: :party: :party: :party: :party: :party: :party: :party: :party: :party: :party: :party: :party: :party: :party: :party: :party: :party: :party: :party: :party: :party: :party: :party: :party: :party:

EmuFan

September 3rd, 2006, 14:08

Nice:)

AkumuHau

September 10th, 2006, 18:41

this is one smooth pack, love it!

can't wait for more

The Dave

December 29th, 2006, 22:50

I just wanted to drop in to tell you guys that I'm not dead, and that I still plan on one daying getting this pack to 100% It's really close actually the way it is, I just decided to stop all work on it until P64 1.7 is released.

djsolidsnake86

March 18th, 2007, 20:46

and when will be released pj64 1.7?

krimb1

May 13th, 2007, 23:20

and when will be released pj64 1.7?

As far as I can recall from what I've read here on the forum, the official release date for 1.7 won't be announced. I may be wrong though.

I do know the 1.7 beta is available for a small price for registered users.

Hope that helps. =)

By the way, AWESOME job on the retexture!! It makes playing the game so much more exciting. Thanks man.

Yogi

February 16th, 2009, 11:57

Is the pack still available?

ReplayTy

February 18th, 2009, 01:00

don't bump, he said he'd work on it the day the full 1.7 releases

Jupiter

February 18th, 2009, 14:48

Seriously, he was just asking for a link to the existing pack, due to the conspicuous 404 errors on all links to it in the thread.

1280by800

December 31st, 2009, 03:48

I too am trying to get the existing pack as well. It looks so good with what the HDR and Bloom shader. Its ashame I cant find this anywhere and only have the WiP dolphin park from the old thread...somebody?
http://img109.imagevenue.com/loc222/27448_waveracehdr_122_222lo.jpg

The Dave

January 3rd, 2010, 20:39

Hi All! Thanks for the kind words, whether or not it came out good I spent a lot of time on this, and at the least the whole UI is pretty much redone. Here's a link to the files I had, which I haven't used in years:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7JYX0MFH

Now some notes. When I did this pack I was somewhere in my 3rd year of college, and not that good. I'm now out of school and have been working as a full-time professional Web Designer / Developer and I would love to redo A LOT of this pack. The thing is since I work full time I just don't have the time. I think outside of the UI and Water mostly everything needs to be redone. It was just amateurish, and I think I can do it now, but I don't think I'll ever have the time.

So, well, one day maybe. That's all I can really say about it.