Hi everyone, i'd like to introduce you to my latest project I teased a while ago on my youtube channel:

OdysseyEditor
A Super Mario Odyssey level editor

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The name pretty much says it all, it can open and edit odyssey levels.
Other than editing levels it can also load and edit byml and szs files from the game (and probably other switch games).
There is still much research to be done, any contribution on Github is welcome.
To use it you need your own dump of the game, don't ask here how to get it.

Hotkeys list and other info.
Download here
Nightly builds (These don't auto update, you have to manually check for new builds)
Requires Window 7,8,9,10 and .NET framework 4.5.2

Spoiler: Screenshots

Spoiler: Spoiler for some locations of the game

Spoiler: Model imports are here !

That's not how i remember it.... #SuperMarioOdyssey #NintendoSwitch pic.twitter.com/S9Qbl97ZEJ

— exelix (@exelix11) November 17, 2018

Spoiler: Video (spoiler for last level of the game)

FAQ:
Windows Defender won't let me run it.
This is normal for "Homebrew" software, as this doesn't have a digital signature nor it's in Microsoft's databases it warns you that it might be a virus, click on more options and run anyway.
The only way i could remove this warning is to and digitally sign the exe, but buying a certificate costs $$$
If you don't trust the exe you can check the code on Github and compile it yourself.

Some models look worse than in-game.
As levels are much more complex than 3D Land, to improve performances the editor loads the furthest LOD of each model (aka the lowest quality)

The editor is laggy
Unfortunately you need a decent pc to run it, on my gaming laptop from late 2016 most of the levels run fine, but some of the most crowded ones like the city are laggy.
To improve the performances while editing you can hide models you don't need like backgrounds, skies, etc

 

[Stephano]

I love the t-posing New Donkers. They look like secret agents speckled everywhere lol

Cant wait to see more.

They are asserting their dominance
T

 

[Beerus]

Yesss cant wait for super sonic adventure odyssey

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They are asserting their dominance
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Shhh u cant flex on temp bois

 

[Thatcher]

Excellent work! Looking forward to watching this develop

 

[mnemonicpunk]

I love this.

 

[exelix11]

Neat now people can make levels for Odyssey that don't suck.

I liked odyssey

Nice to see this kind of stuff so early. Was almost thinking it was april 1st

actually, the plan was to publish or at least show it on April 1st but i had to delay it

 

[Anfroid]

I was expecting a bait thread asking for a level editor. Nice pleasant surprise.

 

[APartOfMe]

Whoa! This is amazing!

 

[Galahad121]

Now this is the real endgame here. Super Mario Odyssey Maker!

 

[kai_dranzer2003]

That is amazing, a Mario Odyssey Maker

I prefer Mario Galaxy, I hope that community made levels type Galaxy

 

[Giodude]

Are you the one who exported a false level of Delfino Island?

That was proven to be rendered in CG. Or most likely anyway.

 

[exelix11]

Are you the one who exported a false level of Delfino Island?

Nope, never heard of that

 

[loler55]

Next Thing is that we can Change the musik from Breath of wild to some ocarina and majoras masks + windwaker songs and voilla the Game is 100% much better.....
Nice to play some completely different Games as oddesey as romhacks .... i Hope of Harder sophisticated Worlds.

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Next Thing is that we can Change the musik from Breath of wild to some ocarina and majoras masks + windwaker songs and voilla the Game is 100% much better.....
Nice to play some completely different Games as oddesey as romhacks .... i Hope of Harder sophisticated Worlds.

More Story a littlebit how papermario

 

[Jackson Ferrell]

I've got a question. Am I able to make the levels as big as I want (like 5 times bigger than a kingdom's size), or are there any size limitations?
Great work btw!

 

[Perfect One]

Are you the one who exported a false level of Delfino Island?

With this tool, faking Isle Delfino like we could see in the 'leaked' odyssey dlc video should be VERY easy.

So, author of this tool or someone else which had this or a similar tool could do that.

 

[DeslotlCL]

Neat now people can make levels for Odyssey that don't suck.

This. Truth be told.

 

[Imancol]

Maybe you can work a little on the rendering and lights.

 

[exelix11]

I've got a question. Am I able to make the levels as big as I want (like 5 times bigger than a kingdom's size), or are there any size limitations?
Great work btw!

Probably with careful resource managing it would possible (like 3d land\world where the developers manually set areas that hide objects out of the view), but as i said, there is no way of running the custom levels in the game yet.

Maybe you can work a little on the rendering and lights.

Unfortunately I have no experience with OpenTK and other 3d engines, the one i'm using is relatibely easy to setup but pretty limited, also to improve performances i've disabled anti aliasing and multiple lights, in the next builds i'll try to improve the rendering quality, but the only proper way is to switch to another engine.
As the project is open source contributions are welcome, if anyone has the right knowledge to implement a better rendering control and wants to help just contact me.
EDIT: Note that Unreal and Unity are out of the question since the rendering control must be embedded in a Windows form, so the main options are OpenTK and SharpDX (that are .net wrappers for OpenGL and DirectX respectively)

 

[Imancol]

Probably with careful resource managing it would possible (like 3d land\world where the developers manually set areas that hide objects out of the view), but as i said, there is no way of running the custom levels in the game yet.


Unfortunately I have no experience with OpenTK and other 3d engines, the one i'm using is relatibely easy to setup but pretty limited, also to improve performances i've disabled anti aliasing and multiple lights, in the next builds i'll try to improve the rendering quality, but the only proper way is to switch to another engine.
As the project is open source contributions are welcome, if anyone has the right knowledge to implement a better rendering control and wants to help just contact me.
EDIT: Note that Unreal and Unity are out of the question since the rendering control must be embedded in a Windows form, so the main options are OpenTK and SharpDX (that are .net wrappers for OpenGL and DirectX respectively)

But it should not be exactly just that tool, and Unity and Unreal Engine does not have the facility to incorporate new functions. Although Blender and 3DMAx supports plugin. Could through plugin load said textures in those 3D editors ?, the rendering would no longer be necessary. Only one method of Import and export through plugin

 

[exelix11]

But it should not be exactly just that tool, and Unity and Unreal Engine does not have the facility to incorporate new functions. Although Blender and 3DMAx supports plugin. Could through plugin load said textures in those 3D editors ?, the rendering would no longer be necessary. Only one method of Import and export through plugin

Making the whole editor as a plugin would require an insane ammount of work, since it should be rewritten from scratch and most importantly the .Net framework takes care of a lot of things that should be implemented manually in that context (the same reason i didn't do it in Unity as MasterF0x suggested).
Also the editor doesn't just consists in loading and displaying levels, there are other things that need attention like the property editing , Linked objects editing (that took quite some work), clipboard, undo stack, etc.
And the performances should also be considered, both Blender and 3DSmax use a scripted language that is most likely going to be slower than c#, so you'll have a smooth 3d rendering and a slow UI for the editor.
I'm not saying that it's impossible, but just very hard, it shoud have been the objective from the start.
Either way i wouldn't have done it as the language i'm most confident with is C# and i never used python before.

 

[supermario18]

dude nice
cant wait for romfs replacements to be a thing