@DerpBox, @CrownGamer901. The bake maps are applied to a separate UV map from the main texture. Then, using parameters from the material in the original model file, it transforms and scales the UV map to fit to the correct parts of the texture. In terms of the operation of how to blend the colors, I'm not entirely sure yet, as Mario Kart 8 shaders are pretty complex.

They're lightmaps, but I don't really know how to use them either...

@Centrixe the Dodo How do you use the Bake textures?

Yesterday I was at someone's stream and while their main game crashed on them, on PC, they decided they switch to this game instead. One map (or two) I glanced over from time to time looked like it comes from a Sonic game and I was 'wtf' about it ... to which some others said don't worry there is nothing original in any Mario games and could blend in with anything else ... To which I was like yeah true XD Just was still confused about it. For a moment I thought they switched to a Sonic racing game XD

So coming here trying to find the map in question I realized this game actually have crossovers and for some reason have Sonic too XD

However I couldn't recognize the track among these files. Could be Toad Harbour but no clue really ... some of them look alike. I remember it had palms, beach theme and city of sorts surrounding it. Looking at the files and the in-game graphics it's kinda night and day in comparison too

I sure am glad I already sent the Rosalina revision

Happy MAR10 Day, you all! Since as far back as 2021, I've been working on a solo project to revise all of the Racer models here to be updated within tMR's more recent standards, plus some additional bonuses I'd also like to share with our userbase!

Here's an overview of what's been in the works:
• Ambience Occlusion Maps
• Missing Textures (MTL, OP, etc.)
• Missing UV Maps
• Proper / Centered Rigging
• SMD Animations (Hopefully!)
• And of course, new icons to showcase the previously-lost shading!


A huge, huuuuge thank you to Random Talking Bush for helping me figure out how MK8's bake maps work – as well as formulating a way to generate 'em into fully functional textures! Even before I started this project, I'd always wondered how the game seemingly rendered extra shadowing onto the characters and environment without the usage of special lighting or some such... while I did suspect that the bake maps were key, I hadn't managed to get any further than that. (Well, aside from very stressful attempts at manually re-building entire Course shadow maps, let alone for a single Racer.) For this graphical mystery to finally be solved and even salvaged was absolutely incredible! With personal life and other stuff in the way, I'm hoping I can fully complete this update sooner rather than later.

P-Wing got rejected so I decided I'd fix some of those I had pending. Y'all gona split the uvs on everything else?

Happy belated-eighth anniversary Mario Kart 8! :D

i would love to use the tracks for my roblox game but they probably have too many vertices

sadly none of the mercedez cars, but i can probably find a dump of mk8 and get them myself after a while lol

all tracks are ripped already? nice

This Mario Kart has the best trophies in the series.

@CosmicFoxYT Yeah, but they won't be on this page.

48 more.

If two different people upload the same model independently, is there a chance that both models could end up with different default sizes?

@Centrixe Cat Cruiser.

@Centrixe Sneeker.

@centrixe how about those koopa clown cars with the screens that you see in mk8 circuit

finally got the hd main texture for the gla

not gonna publish it atm but I got gla converted