Good news, AirMate has got the track looking fantastic in MK8DX on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/i/status/1736557768163651739

Next is Toad’s factory

Well Well WELL, looks like nintendo heard him and said "Bet" with Mario Kart World, not only with this track, but with Toad's Factory too

You’re quite good for someone who’s never made custom tracks before. I wouldn’t mind seeing a mock-up of what Lakeside Park or Broken Pier would look like in the Booster Course Pass art style.

Well now it looks good AND exists in a real video game!

I'm shocked by how needlessly high poly Tour is for a mobile game.
Just putting real textures on to the geometry really fixes most of the problems I have with the Tour artstyle. It's a shame Nintendo didn't bother to do that in the DLC.

i love the low quality mic whenever you’r testing stuff- it gives off dunkey vibes

watching him try to recreate the tri geometry made me feel pain because there's a blender feature called Tris to Quads that changes every selected tri into a quad without changing the object's shape

As someone who's attempted to port SNES Bowser Castle 3 to Mario Kart 8 Deluxe before it got to the BCP, I have mad respect for your UV mapping dedication! I love your work!

The night version looks incredible 😮

Finally, someone else who appreciates the Ice Tunnel! I don’t know why Nintendo removed it.

I love how these projects end up becoming "remake the textures with other textures, then cry while messing with UV Maps for 30 hours." Just as Miyamoto intended.

Seriously, insane amount of patience here to grind out the UV Mapping. That stuff is a pain to work with sometimes.

Honestly sometimes antigrav can improve tracks, I’d look at Boo Lake, Dk Jungle and Piranha Plant Pipeline as examples (there’s definitely more but I remember this). For the case of dk pass I think the glider they added in mk7 makes a lot more sense then just a big booster jump, cause it’s the same thing but you have more stuff to do

This guy is so good. Luigi circuit was a mind boggling custom track, so this one is gonna be great.

Absolutely banger, so glad this showed up in my Recommended feed. I’ve been looking for videos to demystify some of the modeling and texturing process, but it’s so much more compelling and helpful to see it in the context of a ~real world~ (debatable! 😂) project as opposed to a tutorial or a demo file. Excited to go back and watch the previous video too!

oh, Charlie's been to Anakeesta? I love that place!

I need that package with the Mario kart tour models

Well, DK Pass needed an upgrade. ;)

tbf, it's a "Pass". So something that goes between mountains.


For anti-gravity/glider/underwater:
In my opinion, these can add to a track in sections that were originally solved with workarounds, or were generally boring. Basically, it has to make sense. If something unique gets cut out, it's a bad implementation. But if a simple boost ramp gets replaced with a glider or a water track gets an underwater section, I don't really mind. For example the swinging net in Maple Treeway was unique, but ultimately it was just a filler section to spam the brand new trick mechanic a bit. I would count the glider in MK8 as an improvement.

This is one of my favorite tracks and I love this video!!! 🤩🤩🤩