Alright folks, we’re muddling through the difficult part of this project, so we figured we’d release a beta, and let everyone take it for a spin. More info after the jump.
What is this?:
- Currently, a full model and animations replacement of the Ice Climbers with Mario & Luigi.
What’s been done?:
- Lensho was tinkering with ice climber character replacement, and it got us thinking about this. I (Jack) was pretty excited about the idea, so I went ahead and spent the rest of the week replacing all 315 animations that appear within the ice-climbers’ animation data. Dingoberriz is working on porting the moveset over.
What will the final product be?:
- We’ll have the moveset injected, as well as a new voicebox for each of them. So, our goal is to have a very Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga or Bowser’s Inside Story-esque feeling to them. Be nice to .fade, and maybe he’ll develop co-op moves for an even more M&L:SsS-esque experience.
What’s not working here?:
- Well, you can fight. No apparent freeze-up glitches are present. This was our main goal, and now that it’s 99% out of the way, we can focus on the other glitches that occur.
What? Glitches?:
- Yes. There two apparent ones that make it a little awkward at the moment. The first being a ‘run-in-place’ glitch that a lot of model swaps suffer with at first. The second one is a massive Rocket-shot UpB. They both use their jump, but the Popo-Nana “rope-throw” is still there, and blasts the main player into sub-Ozone orbit. Otherwise, this is a very playable.
Can they be fixed?:
- That’s the goal. Injecting their moveset is quite the bugger, since Nana… yeah – let’s not talk about it. Too much frustration. We’ll get it though. heh.
This is crazy! Can we expect a Donkey/Diddy duo or anything similar later?
- Sure, why not. 
Where’s mah images and HD video?
- Yeah yeah, here you go. heh
And when we first started the project… we had nightmares. This was a challenging 3DS Max feat >_>;
These are sick!
Nil: “Just wondering, but why are there eyes so…bright? I actually like this better than there usual eyes, but I don’t think I actually saw them blink in the video. Did they?”
A: I guess it’s about time I answered this. I’m loving all the jokes about it, heh. You see, every polygon is loaded at once, including their iris, final smash eye, whites of their eye, eyelids, etc. The iris is loaded BEHIND the whites of their eyes (thanks Sakurai)… so, in order to get the eyes to appear, I had to basically paint the Iris ONTO the white’s of their eye, and remove everything else.
The whites are pretty bright. It’ll be toned down for the next release, no worries. It was a quick paintbucket test that worked, so I didn’t turn back to edit it. ^_^
This is great!!!!!!
I’ll download them as soon as the run-in-place glitch is fixed!
can’t wait!!!!!
=3
This is a great hack. I love it! Very few glitches, very fun to play as, but I did however find a bug. Try shielding with them. I noticed a glitch with the arm.
I finally have a reason to have Dr. Mario and Kid Goku on my roster now!!!!
se3xy, mario partners in time moveset pleaze
After I can make their normal moveset work on them, then alterations will be welcomed.
Sonic and Tails anyone?
The last picture makes me lol. Looks like something went wrong there. But I figger on trying this, since I don’t use the Ice Climbers enough to care that they’re gone xD.
What about their final smash? that make it freeze? or have you changed it.
@xANDERssbb
It does nothing at the moment.
@Jaredhedgehog Im working on finishing tails :0 full model.
By the question “Can we expect a Donkey/Diddy or something like that?” I hope you include a Zelda/Sheik. That would be extremely epic.
@14fanofanime
Dude, Zelda IS Sheik. That would be nothing but epicly confusing to see them fighting side by side. Thats like saying, “oh boy, can you guys do a Samus/Zero-suit Samus combo?!?!!11 That would be extremely epic!”
Just doesn’t work, guy.
Not to come off impatient, but is there a rough estimate of when the final version will be done?
I apologize for never saying this sooner. But there was a lot of glitches with hitboxes never working right and bone things that could probably be fixed once I learn Tabuu. Other then that, trying to edit the ice block to even do fire damage screwed up the article entirely. I changed the gfx flag and it just feel straight down through the stage on top of everything else glitching up.
well cool hack.
but there are two things I hope you guys can fix:1. why don’t they have a hat? 2. I hope you guys can fix those glitches.
Aside from these they are really cool:D