Hacking The Graphics Of Melee

As a long time fan of Super Smash Brothers Melee, hacking the game's graphics has been on my to do list for a few years. In this video I analyze the game's graphics and describe the process of creating custom skins for Melee fighters.
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Skins:
ssbmtextures.c...
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Resources:
• Melee Model Import Tut...
• Custom Textures in Mel...
Music:
During The Test - Persona 3 OST
Afternoon Break - Persona 3 OST
Bad Bully - Kizumonogatari OST
New Game - WORLD OF HORROR OST
Iwatodai Dorm - Persona 3 OST
Sandgem Town (Day) - Pokemon Diamond OST
Thanks for watching!
This video is dedicated to my friend, Alotryx.
#acerola #gamedev #graphics #melee #blender #modding

[@Acerola_t]

Sorry for no irl segments and the poor voice over, I am extremely sick. Finishing this video definitely shortened my lifespan, don't say I never did anything for u

[@avidrucker]

Thank you for your sacrifice. Hope you are taking better care for your health!

[@newchallengers9420]

R u actually sick?

[@elijahandplusgamingandmore]

My life span has been shortened a lot too I’m sorry for you😢

[@trishajchen]

thank you for using your very legally obtained melee iso file to make this nice video for us :)

[@xerxes8014]

Actually, the main reason the specular highlights are so big is that they are done per vertex rather than per pixel as was common on the Gamecube

[@Acerola_t]

That's great insight, thank you

[@aarorissanen930]

For anyone interested, the technique is called Gouraud shading: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gouraud_shading

[@CaptainTechnicalityLP]

Worth noting that the "Inverted Hull" method that you used to make Captain Falcon's outlines is basically the exact same process as a common shader method, just baked into the model instead of calculated on the GPU.

[@dumaass]

Damn, that's cool. I would imagine it to be more costly, though.

[@pieterpauwels548]

@@dumaass I'm not a graphics programmer but I reckon it's cheaper to do directly in the model rather than on the GPU. you're still rendering the model twice, but it doesn't need to calculate anything anymore. I guess it comes down to how much more effort it is for the GPU to load in the object if it's twice as big?

[@raskerwar2508]

Damn capitain Falco clapping some cheeks 9:20

[@raskerwar2508]

The joke with SMD made me burst out laughing lmao

[@robertoproenca4944]

hey, a really minor fix, but when you explain what is a normalized vector you put a correct image on the screen saying the magnitude of the vector is 1, but in your narration, you say that "their parts sum to 1" which i understand as meaning something like x + y + z = 1 when in reality for a normalized vector in euclidian space it means sqrt(x^2 + y^2 + z^2) = 1 also, youtube recommended your channel for me today and i think your videos have an amazing quality

[@Acerola_t]

Whoops! You are correct. Also thanks!

[@StephanusTavilrond]

The reason you can't inject shaders into Super Smash Brothers Melee is because it is a GameCube game, which had a fixed-function pipeline. It simply did not support shaders at all.

[@StephanusTavilrond]

With that being said tho, the GPU of the GameCube did have built-in, hardware-accelerated support for a LOT Of things, like depth-of-field, toon-shading, etc. So it kinda already had most of the stuff you'd implement in shaders anyway.

[@ashisharky]

Funnily enough the SMD file format is also used in the source engine. So hearing it here had me stop for a moment. 9:20 WHY DOES CAPTAIN FALCON HAVE A DUMPTRUCK??????

[@pilsmer]

I always though it stood for 'Source Model Data' xd

[@RealCreepaTime]

bro, its massive lol

[@mikafoxx2717]

For the Gooch shading.

[@Eman-df7hv]

12:24 that skin looks like something out of Mad World, nice job

[@Acerola_t]

That is high praise, thanks!

[@zoa011]

cool vid; hope you feel better soon

[@Acerola_t]

Thanks! I don't feel as bad as I did a few days ago but the fatigue lingers.

[@bigolnut2560]

Can I get that wallpaper you made for your school assignment?

[@Acerola_t]

i.imgur.com/NSCshlz.png

[@JessieProductions]

My family invited me to watch Intersteller, but I’d much rather watch this in depth video about graphical math equations in SSBM

[@Acerola_t]

Interstellar is a good movie tho

[@Brutalic]

This would be a lot better if Ace hadn’t pickpocketed me at Genesis 8 :/

[@Acerola_t]

I literally paid for your drink

[@Brutalic]

@@Acerola_t yeah yeah

[@NikELbErGErBergel]

You went through the trouble to make that falcon cake jumpscare and didnt put it into the game... otherwise very informative thank you

[@g1ngerbred723]

Aw man...I thought SMD stood for Super Mario Drothers...

[@funx24X7]

Thank you for the succinct explanation/mini tutorial on toon shading with blender, I first saw this effect on custom skins for half-life models back in the day and always wondered how they applied it.

[@hightidefloods7396]

lets gooo. "the picture" made it in

[@whompronnie]

FALCO'S CAKE THO

[@sabracat]

I'm so deadddd, saw this in my yt feed and noticed the "voice over" images you used in beginning. You cosplayed Shaggy. Had me laughing. Great work though~ Always great explanations to everything you do. Great video!

[@Acerola_t]

I'm literally just wearing a green polo lmao thanks for watching!

[@LetsDark]

Just, found the channel and watched for 2 h and you got ~250 subscribers in that time. Bless the KZbin algorithm :)

[@Acerola_t]

Thanks for watching!!

[@Retheo]

Thoroughly enjoyed watching this! I also learned a lot, enough to know that I do not have what it takes to mod melee lmaoo

[@SouThhy95]

Skins are cool and all but man the background that you had made for a school assignment. Perfect/10 (would appreciate big time for the link wink-wink)

[@juniperbelmont]

You are so incredibly talented and I love your art and the way you think about art

[@Acerola_t]

Thanks!

[@syaoranli7869]

OH MY GOD You're a Melee fan too?!?!?!

[@Acerola_t]

I've watched competitive melee since like 2012 it feels yeah, I have never had time to actually get good at the game though lol

[@syaoranli7869]

@@Acerola_t I knew I made the right choice when I subbed to your channel (it was the grass models that was recommended to me)

[@xanderlinhares]

Specular might use bling-phong but the it appears to be only calculated per-vertex (Gouraud shading) as is evidenced by the interpolation artifacts on captain falcon. I forget how this would’ve been set up in the fixed function pipeline (no shaders on GameCube right?).

[@mr.escalante4605]

I love the persona 3 music and sounds 😊

[@Owl90]

11:24 god damn man, you can draw!

[@Nawakooo0]

Omg I wanted to use your shaders for Melee and I found that video!

[@Soundy777]

Smashed it!

[@l17essbm]

The tutorial you showed about changing the model in blender (the one with the lucas) unfortunatly is incomplete

[@Acerola_t]

It's incomplete in the sense that it doesn't cover modifying animations but it does cover everything you need to know to import a model from melee into blender which is the first like 5 minutes of the video.

[@kohai-kun9261]

9:21 Holy shit, I knew Capt. Falcon was thicc, but GAWWWW DAMN

[@drdca8263]

The dot product of two unit vectors which have opposite directions is -1, not 0. I think you meant to say that if the directions are perpendicular it will be 0? Or does it do like, (1 + u dot v)/2 or something like that?

[@Acerola_t]

sorry I forget that in the world of graphics we just clamp that shit to 0 to 1

[@drdca8263]

@@Acerola_t Ahhh cool, thanks

[@dabsouljaboy]

dope vids i also play melee and participated in the ludwig jam B)

[@ivymuncher]

itachi falco goes insanely fucking hard

[@SandTurtle]

i think captain falcon is made to be shiny to look like a comic book hero

[@xylvnking]

Just curious in case anybody has the answer, why does captain falcon have so many textures? Is it more optimized on that hardware to have many smaller textures instead of one large one? Thank you

[@sorenwittwer9097]

My DAEs that I've extracted from HSDraw don't seem to work in blender. I import them and then just nothing. I ran blende in PowerShell and this was the error message I got "'Texture with sid "TOBJ_0-image" not found in effect with id "JOBJ_0_DOBJ_0_MOBJ_0-effect"' I've tried deleting the "JOBJ_0_DOBJ_0_MOBJ_0-effect"' line of text from the DAE file which was one of the fixes I've seen to this problem, but it's just moves on to give me an error message for "JOBJ_0_DOBJ_1_MOBJ_1-effect" or something. If you know a fix for this or maybe something I'm missing from the DAE extraction process any help would be great.

[@Acerola_t]

Did you follow the video tutorial for importing models into blender? I think it goes over the process pretty in depth. I unfortunately have a really terrible memory and have already forgotten everything involved in the making of this video.

[@kingofthegrapes]

why don’t you have per-pixel lighting turned on in dolphin it’s drivin me nuts

[@Acerola_t]

no idea what that is B)

[@SvenHeidemann-uo2yl]

Hey acerola, i want to make my own character in melee so badly. Is there a chance we get a follow up video for melee modding, including mextool and hsdraw? I have mayor trouble with Custom skeletons 🥺

[@Acerola_t]

probably not

[@mochou_p]

5:25 XD

[@brettmatlock85]

I wanna change Samus charge shot missiles and grapple any body know how to do this? Thanks. Great video.

[@AspectCave]

9:20 i gyatt to try this XD

[@NVS-16]

❤

[@DrewOPowell]

Good video

[@pixeldevlog]

Got me at SMD

[@DuringDark]

but DAE wanna SMD?

[@kumaraditya9183]

9:20 is it me or .....🌚

[@capnsquishy]

LET'S GO SHIGGLES

[@nolanj.3897]

Man I've been saying SMD wrong for so long now, no wonder my coworkers reported me to HR

[@BarcelonaMove]

Hey Ace . . SMD :)

[@gonderage]

never modded melee since i never got a 𝓵𝓮𝓰𝓪𝓵𝓵𝔂 𝓸𝓫𝓽𝓪𝓲𝓷𝓮𝓭 𝓬𝓸𝓹𝔂 of melee to dump, but gosh, this reminds me of when I modded smash 4. nice to see how the melee lads did their work :>