Booster Course Coconut Mall Kinda Sucked... So I Fixed It! 

the most important thing for me that gave the original track so much athmosphere was the miis looking at you drive and the soundscape. When youre driving through the track in 8 Deluxe its just the song in the brackground, but driving through it on the Wii, you heard People talking when youre in the Mall and you heard the cars making sounds outside of it in the Background. This sort of audio is so important for making the Tracks feel alive.

Vanilla lake winter clothes store being closed is so clever

Coconut mall is going out of business as everyone switches to online shopping (an observed real world phenomenon)

I see you're trying a track that's already in MK8DX this time, nice. You could just apply new textures and lighting, but I know you'll go above and beyond for this project.

8:17 "I don't what it is, but it needs to be on for mine to work for some reason." Welcome to the world of computers.

bro really used galvanized square steel and echo-friendly wood venires on that toy store

Don’t stop doing these track revamp/remasters. They’re really well done and entertaining to watch come to life🤙🏾

It's so funny when he goes from sounding pretty knowledgeable to "Okay, I have no clue what's happening. This worked so we'll go with it for now"

I can't wait for the 4 hour video where you update all the models in Luigi's Mansion 2 HD after it comes out.

Oh my God this is exactly how I remembered coconut mall. All it needs is a high quality version of the wii's music and crowd sound effects. I cannot wait for someone to mod this in and I truly hope you find the time to remake all of the tracks in the booster pass!

oh i never realized why the booster course version made me so uncomfortable until i watched this video- you gave coconut mall back its sleek 2000's design AND THEN SOME, absolutely beautiful

Dude this video is not only hilarious, but it perfectly shows your almost creepy obsession with Mario kart. Jokes and your possible need for a new hobby aside, you did an absolutely spectacular job making coconut mall amazing. From the toy store to fixing the color scheme, the shirts, the shops, the whole lot of it was redone so well!

I really love the way 12:23 looks, the lighting makes it look as if it’s evening.

35:51 that's because of the normals, if you go to Edit Mode and do Alt + N > Set from Faces it will fix it. generally it bugs out whenever you join because it gets the normals from the other object, and might fuck up other meshes like here

Wow he did it again. This definitely looks way better than the BCP version. Although I'm not quite sure how I feel about the blue aesthetic on the outside of the building. Give me more of a public pool or spa vibe 😅 But besides that little detail, everything looks like what the original Wii one could've been. Excited to see who's gonna be the quick one to implement it into the game, so we can see how it feels like playing it.

Something I thought of with the clothing stores, in Splatoon 3 you can customize a locker. The shirts put in are on a hanger, so that could be used if you could find the models. Also, some hats are on head models, which could also be used.

This video was so interesting that i wish it would never end! Keep up with the good work!

Personally I really like what they did with Coconute Mall for the BCP. It takes some visual liberties, but it still looks quite nice (the tile mural in particular looks good).

The amount of effort and dedication you put into this rendition of Wii Coconut Mall is astounding, especially when you put the ivy on top of the halls. You should really do Wii DK Summit next.

MAAAAAAN! I kinda wish this is what the BCP version looked like. This is genuinely so cool, and I like how faithful you tried to make this to the original.

I’ve just been coconut malled in the best way possible, this looks amazing!! Really hope someone makes this into a mod like the toad’s factory one!

I’ve been absolutely loving this series. It’s actually given me a bit of inspiration to start working on custom tracks of my own.

I am loving what you are doing to the stores! the BCP ones were empty it felt so bad

Next you should try to recreate Koopa Cape because that was extremely nerfed.

Super impressive what you were able to throw together here! I've been trying to learn Blender lately and it's videos like these that inspire me to keep at it :)

You amaze me...great job. And I always love your sense of humor.

It sucks that Nintendo decided to go the cheap route and give us the Tour version in the Booster Course Pack. This video did a fantastic job at showcasing what we are missing out on, it looks great!

I always thought it was funny how coconut mall had the same progression of every real life mall I've seen. Loss of life, popularity, anything pretty for the sake of 'modernity' and 'updated safety codes' and becoming lame and gross looking.

2:13 "And the occasional 'everything blowing up and turning evil'" The true Blender experience

This is such a better version, I really love the little details you added to the stores. It makes it feel like a real lived in world.

Incredible work. I'm excited to see it ingame!

This was awesome to watch! What a trip down memory lane I loved that short cut so much , would stop just to look around the mall ! Great job!

Doing gods work out here 😭 This is honestly incredible beyond belief!! Amazing work 🙌🏻 if you choose to do another I would nominate maple Treeway cause my fav wii tracks (coconut mall too) got slaughtered in the bcp and it’s so sad!

ok i just watched the whole video and you are a pro interior decorator. amazing job, there is so much more LIFE to this version

as somebody with very thick glasses, the comment about "this is a job for someone somebody with thicker glasses then me" had my dyiiing

This series just never misses. Makes me really want to learn blender so I can do this type of stuff 😂 amazing job!!

There was much effort put in this revamp, I love it!! And it's 1000% better than the actual Coconut Mall in 8DX.

All sorts of RU-vidrs get comments like "Why aren't you already working for Nintendo?". Well, my good sir, you have truly earned that comment. Your work is of great quality. You would be at home with any game development team.

ok charlie look i love the effort that went into this and it looks really really cool but change the delfino dream sign PLEASE!!!! putting aside the blatant usage of the default blender font (you can select different ones!!), using booleans like this is really unoptimized and i feel it'd function much better if the letters were just conveyed as a normal map lol

This looks absolutely incredible!

I think one issue I personally had with the Booster Course version of CM... was the sign at the front of the store. The font and everything's fine, and honestly I love the way you made it all 3D in this new model... but it does _not_ look right to have a cool Purple text on an also-cool Cyan backing! I've made of an edit of the sign already, where the Purple is replaced by a warmer Yellow colour... and honestly, not only does it look better than the Booster Course version of the sign, but it also gave me a vibe closer to the original sign! So yeah! I think that's only real change I would make to this model! Everything else looks _super_ good, and a vast improvement over the Booster Course version! I loved watching you create all the stores, because yeah! It felt like you were actually passionate and wanted to create something that actually exists in this universe! Which is something that I _loved_ with the MK8 tracks, and something that I always felt was missing with the Booster Course tracks. So yeah, overall? Wonderful work on this!

Bro really pulled a Bob The Builder type move on the Booster Course Coconut Mall and I tip my hat off to him, mad respecc 💯

Wow. This was actually phenomenal. You did a truly fantastic job! Viva La Coconut Mall!!!!!

I applaud your willpower and creativity This had to be done!

look man if one person can texture this track as incredibly as it turned out, nintendo needs to be taking some serious notes amazing fricking job man

Well done! You did a great job on revamping the track.

Wow this is sick man! Only thing you forgot was the giant sphere above the first fountain. IYKYK

Thank you for calling out the coconut mall remake being bad. I got so much hate on Reddit a very long time ago for this…

So, there is a feature called 'tris to quads' that you can use in edit mode. It could have made some of your unwrapping work a little less extremely horrible.

That's actualy crazy how 1 person is more capable than a nintendo team☠️

out here doing gods work

This guy just fixed Nintendo's mistake! Coconut Mall is my Favorite track and I like it before I knew it was popular. can Nintendo please use this!

I adore modding videos that get into the modeling side of things!

I loved this video so much! The nostalgia is crazy.

I actually don't mind the Tour/8DX version as much as other people, however your version undeniably blows it out of the water. Even the original in some areas. All the texture work, as well as little details like the shops and flowers, really give this track more character (which was kinda lacking in the 8DX original).

I love this video because you really show how much work you put into detailing Blender set pieces. Your workflow also looks similar to mine

this is beautiful. Thank you for doing this

this looks soo cool! wish we could see what it looks like in-game

Amazing work man

This brings back so many memories 🥲so nostalgic

finally, something to look forward to during the heat death of the universe

IT LOOKS SO MUCH BETTER OMG

You deserve a trophy 🏆

Fun to watch. Thank you for the video!

17:51 I was really suprised to hear music from 'Adventure Time: Hey Ice King, Why'd You Steal Our Garbage' in this video

this is literally best efforts ive seen on youtube

With the auto smooth issues: the way it makes some faces flat is by automatically marking edges as being sharp. To undo this, go into edit mode, then edge selection mode, select any cyan edges that are supposed to be smooth, right click or Ctrl+E and select "clear sharp"

Nintendo fans do what NintenDON’T this is amazing!!! This is genuinely a work of art, props to you 👏🏼

I kinda prefer the color palette in mk8, tho the details of the og are good

I love these videos man

i am glad the vis is so detailed, i am oretty new to blender and people sometimes just say what they do but not what buttons they press. also the normal map thing is interesting, when modding textures i usually left that alone cuz idk what that does

THIS IS AMAZING!!

I’m surprised you didn’t use some of the shopping mall props from Luigi’s Mansion 3, those would’ve fit right in!

This looks fantastic!

It's soo much better you are goated!

Fantastic work!!

such an adobe moment. where instead of keeping up to date. you just go back in time to fix your problems

woow I would love to see this become a series. Where you take rooms from various games and remade them in blender! I would watch every one of them!

It looks so good!

man this was a really really cool project and a fun video but every time i saw you make / put in a high res model or texture that was just more detailed than it needed to be that optimization part of me just died a little inside

Hi ! I'd be interested to mod this into the game, as I also revamp BCP tracks to make them look as close to the base game, and your work here is fantastic ! However, I noticed some issues upon opening the file in blender: - the pianta statue at the front is missing - some textures are missing from the project (they seem to be textures you used from other existing maps, such as super bell subway for instance), had you packed the textures in the blend file ? If you have some time to look into these issues, i'd greatly appreciate it ! And again, great work !

the new version of the track always felt weirdly orange to me, i’m glad your version actually brings back a good color palette that isn’t vomit inducing on 200 cc

23:12 "the first of which is called Coco, and the other one is called *ad pops up*"

kinda unrelated to the point of the video, but it's so good someone appreciates music from adventure time wysog, respect!

What coconut mall DESERVES 🔥🔥🔥

This is an awesome project, the only thing that put me off was a lot of the font choices, however I also really struggle with font selection so I dont have much room to speak xP

Would love to see more Booster Course Pass revamps!

I know its to late for this video, but hopefully this helps in the future. If you go into Edit mode, select all of the faces you want to reset, hit "Mesh" at the top, go to "Normals" and hit "Reset Normals" and Blender will recalculate the normals for the mesh. The one downside is that it also automatically updates (and locks) auto smooth settings, but you can remove that by going to the "Geometry Data" in the Object Data Properties and click "Clear Custom Split Normals Data."

This is amaziiiing!!! 🔥

1:19 me and the boys about to go “Coco Mode”

About 36 mins in at the part with the weird shading, try selecting all the geometry in the object, then press m, then click “by distance”

For the issue with the shading, use mesh->normals->recalculate outside in edit mode.

I hope someone mods this to Mario Kart 8 Deluxe because I would love to be able to play this updated version.

it looks incredible, the only nitpick i have is how bland the default blender text font looks when all the other fonts in the existing textures are so wacky and have so much character

btw you can just select a (everything) --> m (combine verts) --> by Distance to get rid of the separated floor parts

I wonder which Mario Kart race track you'll update next?

As an expert in Photoshop, Blender, and Texturing, your work process was hilarious. And your work ethic, attention to detail, and resourcefulness were inspiring. Great video. You should be proud, cause when Nintendo shoved mobile textures onto one of Nintendo's most visually impressive games, my texturer-side was furious. 36:27 In Blender (and rendering in general) every face has a "normal" which basically tells the light which direction the face is facing and which side of that face is the outside of the mesh. Normals are defined in the mesh not the material. If you ever encounter an issue like this again where a model just has the wrong shading, it's probably a normals problem, and there is a way to reset normals. In Blender, select all faces, then Mesh -> Normals -> Reset Vectors.

It sucks because it's a direct tour port. A lot of the booster course nitro's or adjusted tracks look akin the the base game. One positive of the remake is how colorful it is

One way to turn a cube into a pyramid without creating hidden line-thin faces is to select the vertices on top and merge the at center

Personally, I think that the track would look better if all those blue color changes were reverted back to orange. It may not be faithful, but orange kinda fits better for what this version what going for. Other than that, this looks great!