mkdd custom character tutorial

[@HumblePaysan]

Thank you for this tutorial. I had no experience with any of those programs before. I was a complete beginner, but I followed every step, both from this video and the wiki. It took a while getting used to everything, but I was finally able to make myself a Yellow Yoshi, and I absolutely love him.

[@tarsa129]

I'm really glad that you were able to make a yellow yoshi! Thanks for the kind words - they really mean a lot.

[@YoshiysusamigosOFFICIAL]

Please tutorial how to custom mkdd for dolphin in android his imposible mods

[@javiviHDVen2025]

I have a question, I want to modify the color of the princesses but I am new to it, a beginner. and I would like to learn Gettins #sosvenezuela

[@luizthesus7193]

Finally!!! A character import tutorial for MKDD!! Thanks for making this tutorial! I can finally hack Spongebob, Patrick, Sonic and Tails in the game!

[@tarsa129]

good luck! for fun, i recently ported blaze and silver using their models from mario and sonic 2010 ds version, that might be a good place to start when looking for low poly enough models.

[@luizthesus7193]

@@tarsa129 cool!

[@TimeFourT]

Great tutorial! I might try it out within the next 10 months

[@tarsa129]

by that time i might be halfway done with the second vid

[@TimeFourT]

@@tarsa129 Are you halfway done with the second vid? Because I'm working on a character mod right now.

[@Noahkirby]

how do you get blemd? theres no download

[@fawfulthegreat64]

After getting weird shading quirks on my custom character that I couldn't seem to solve at all, it was determined that the likely cause was the conversion using the Blemd addon for Blender instead of SuperBMD. However, I work in Blender and can't find my way around 3DS Max to save my life. Is there a way to get vanilla-accurate shading while using Blender for a custom character? As a test, I even imported a vanilla character using Blemd, then exported it with no changes and converted it back to BMD with SuperBMD. The character now has worse shading in-game. Shading that makes them look crystallized.

[@tarsa129]

superbmd conversion to .bmd will always mess up some normals - if you look at around 1:37 in my maid toadette video you'll see messed up shading on toadette's head. a little bit of messed up normals, currently, cannot be worked around. resetting xforms right before skinning can remove a lot of jank in shading - this is important when you have to scale models to get them to fit in a vanilla skeleton. without looking at your files, i can't really help any futher. my discord is tarsa#8462

[@CreatorLucyReal]

What is the maximum poly count.

[@tarsa129]

there's no set max poly count that i know of, the overall filesize of the character (which is affected by stuff like poly count, textures, etc) is the more important thing.

[@MirroredPanda]

Any chance I can download Baby Rosalina or Detective Baby Rosalina at all? 👀

[@MirroredPanda]

The mod, that is, not the models.

[@darkyobou7484]

Hi tarsa, sorry to brother. I try custom mod but in game my character dont have star texture on him when he use that item, and have a little problem with a little piece texture go in the sky. I try to send picture on discord if u have a time to help to help me thanks. Sorry for my bad english. Thanks and good luck

[@stefmeilink9211]

Hey, is it possible at all to import custom tracks onto a Gamecube, instead of using Dolphin?

[@tarsa129]

there's a program called "swiss" that you might want to look into, but i've never tried it myself.

[@SusiTerry]

What's the AR code to bypass mram.arc size restrictions? How much longer does it take?

[@tarsa129]

i think that it should be in some message by a user named xayr (the person who made the soundmodding tools) sometime in double crew in (late?) november 2020. i'm not in that server so i can't check for myself. the idea is that instead of loading mram.arc into ram from disc at game startup and then reading from ram as needed, you skip the loading and read from disc whenever needed. however, this is significantly slower. i have not tested the bypass on console, but when i tested it out on dolphin, i recall it taking 30 seconds - 1 min upon each course load. that time is like at least 1/3 of a race, which i imagine can be very annoying. even without the delay, i don't really like the idea of requiring ar codes to play mods unless the ar code itself adds to the experience. i don't think that it is player-friendly, and it sounds like the kind of thing that can turn someone away from experiencing mods.

[@SusiTerry]

@@tarsa129 Isn't there a way to speed up the read speed and make it take less time?

[@tarsa129]

i'm not aware of an ar code to do that, but it is possible that there is one? in dolphin, you can hold down the tab key and the game will be sped up, but that doesn't work for console users.

[@SusiTerry]

@@tarsa129 No I meant in dolphin and nintendont you can increase the disc read speed and make stuff read faster, also you can increase the ram in dolphin and overclock the cpu. But yeah I understand wanting everything to perform like the vanilla game on a real gamecube.

[@GingerParisHilton]

im so scared to add you because im brand new to this and wanna try 😭

[@M64-Snyderz64]

Will there be a tutorial for custome karts?

[@tarsa129]

i have plans to do a kart edit in a second video.

[@M64-Snyderz64]

Nice ❤️