Part 2 of a conversation I had with ‪@ScruffyMusic‬, answering some of your questions about Super Mario Galaxy's visuals, art style, graphics technology, and music.

Part 1:    • A Deeper Dive into Wind Waker's Light...  

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📰 LearnOpenGL - Normal Mapping ( https://learnopengl.com/Advanced-Ligh... )
📰 Illustrative Rendering in Team Fortress 2, Mitchell et. al ( https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/apps/... )
📰 Real-Time Fur over Arbitrary Surfaces, Lengyel et. al ( http://hhoppe.com/fur.pdf )

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🎥 Longplay of Yoshi's Story (    • Longplay of Yoshi's Story   )

🎵 Mahito Yokota - Super Mario Galaxy - File Select (    • Video   )
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🎵 Akitaka Tohyama - Kotoba no Puzzle Mojipittan Daijiten - Tick up (    • Video   )
🎵 Kazumi Totaka - Yoshi's Story - Ending Story (    • Yoshi's Story- Ending Story   )
🎵 Koji Kondo - Super Mario 64 - File Select (    • Video   )
🎵 Kenichi Tokoi - Sonic Unleashed - Spagonia Night (    • Spagonia (Night) - Sonic Unleashed [OST]   )
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00:00 Are you sure that's a displacement map?
07:08 What's the difference between a displacement map and a normal map?
14:25 How do Pikmin's water reflections work?
19:59 In Slimy Spring Galaxy, the water pool up against the edges of the water. How does that work?
26:50 What is a mipmap? What is "miptrick"?
31:15 How does the rim lighting work in Super Mario Galaxy 1 & 2?
40:35 Do you like the more "crafted" from games like Yoshi's Wooly World or Kirby's Epic Yarn?
45:10 The crystals seem to refract and reflect things. What's the trick?
48:30 Why does Super Mario Galaxy's Fur hold up so well?
54:28 Talking about music, and Nintendo's audio technology for a bit
1:00:36 What's your favorite example of adaptive audio in a video game?

💜 Special Thanks to Patch