Thanks for the Shoutout!
This time I'll leave the honor of putting your work into the game to someone else (I'm sadly a little busy myself atm). Who ever it'll be, have fun!

He did what no one else was brave enough to do.

Tip: the top part of the piston is the boss. The bottom part is the connecting rod. The last two parts are actually one part which is the crankshaft

As someone who majored in mathematics for my undergrad, I approve of your piston math and explanation of why the cube is the best shape.

4:09 With the miracles that the Blender Community has pulled off, I'd only be mildly surprised if they added that.

a friendly tip: altough it makes your piston is mechanically sound, you don't really need it to actually have the hole in the bottom, as is is covered at all times, all that the holes are doing is increasing performance cost

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Looks VERY difficult to make, and what you did with it is just incredible! Really nice work :)

The lighting can be fixed just by removing all the lights and using trial and error to get the track to render right in game. Doing this at night time might help!

For animating the pistons at around 18:30, I would recommend using Blender's object constraints to get the desired driving motion. Something even better would be using bones and skinning/weight painting the different parts to their bones and using Bone Constraints instead. For assets in games, it's better to use bones as animating the actual object as it's easier to import animations into the game, as well as computing the animations. For the bone constraints, I'd recommend using the Damped Track or Inverse Kinematics constraint and having the piston's "pendulum"-like piece being the target (more specifically, you would create a new bone where you want the pendulum piece to be constrained to). That way, when you rotate the entire cylinder, it drives the pendulum piece to be snapped to the part you want. However, their are numerous methods to achieve this with bones and constraints so there isn't one perfect answer. I'm sure there's plenty of better resources out there to animate a piston.

This probably doesn't make the most tangible-sense (I know I wouldn't be able to when I first started to use Blender), but hopefully it gives more insight of using constraints to drive animations, removing some of the tedious keyframing and manipulation you had to do animated it manually. This is what animators use when creating animations for movies and games, and probably a similar method of what Nintendo did to animate the pistons originally. Hope that helps!

Dude this is literally my favorite wii track. You did amazing! Its funny, watching you struggle making these maps motivates me in a strange and unexplainable way. Like my mind goes "if he can do that, i can do this!" Which can ironically be taken the wrong way and make it sound like im dissing you.

TOAD'S FACTORY IS IN MARIO KART WORLD! WE WONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

Toad’s Factory has the best song imo. Nothing can top it.

Even if it didn't end up working as intended, it's still very impressive considering the amount of time and effort you put into it alongside digestible explanations on how things work and your ability to overcome obstacles. Keep it up! 👍

THERE GONNA DO IT IN MRIO KART WORLD

Tell you what this video needs more love

Little did he know what would show up in the next mariokart

Very fun video to watch! It was very cool to see the process of making all the textures and models. Also, your writing is top-notch! It's just the right blend of funny and informative. You've definitely earned a sub.

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This makes me want to create my own track. It’ll be nice to see you creating your own track by doing everything you did for Toad’s Circuit. It’ll be kinda like your “End of the Year “ gift to yourself, making a brand new track, having the gimmicks you want, and it being playable. But that’ll be a long time from now. Can’t wait to see what’s coming up soon