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Zelda: Jiff of the Wild mods can now customize Link's peel, add together entire custom maps

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild mods have been incredible since the beginning, when the Wii U emulator Cemu first fabricated the game playable on PC. These days information technology's very playable, to the tune of 4K, 60 fps, and you can even play information technology in outset-person.

About of the graphic symbol mods were, naturally, ridiculous, replacing Link entirely or swapping his motorbike for a rideable Sonic the Hedgehog. But modding progress continues to exist astonishing, and with a graphics pack information technology's now possible to extensively customize the expect of Jiff of the Wild, from its foggy skies right down to the colour of Link's hair and skin.

The video above from BSOD Gaming provides a nice overview of the Too Many Options graphics pack, which you can download from a file hosted on the Cemu Discord server here. As information technology says on the tin, the graphics pack really does offering a boundless number of options, simply there are some great ones in in that location. Customizing the amount of grass and fog in the earth tin have a big impact, you tin can make some dramatic shifts to the color of the world, remove cel shading, and near a million other options.

The one that really grabbed my attending, though, was being able to tweak Link'south pilus, skin, and eye color. You tin can't change the structure of Link's face, only this is otherwise about as robust as many RPG graphic symbol creators. I think many players would love to take these kinds of customization options in a real Zelda game, and it'due south pretty great that it's adaptable—in real-time—thanks to PC modders.

Hopefully when the Too Many Options mod pack is refined and finished, it'll be added to the Github repo of Cemu's graphics packs, making information technology a cinch to download.

Change a few drop-downs and you have a whole new Link. — Modify a few drop-downs and yous have a whole new Link.

The other focus of BSOD's video is on the ability to add together custom levels to Breath of the Wild, which has potentially much bigger ramifications for the game's mod scenes. A modder successfully replaced one of the shrine trials with a recreation of Mario 64's Bob-omb Battlefield, which you can observe here. It'south a super unproblematic map, substantially just the geometry, and then there'south not much in the way of interactivity. The lighting's weird, too. Just for a game that has mostly had graphical mods for the last two years, it'due south huge. It proves modders tin import custom-fabricated levels into Breath of the Wild.

This is make new stuff. Just this week, modder HailToDodongo released some tools for making custom maps work properly in BOTW. You can see an example playground they built in this video.

Right now, these areas are evidently simple, but the door is open for dedicated modders to design and import custom shrine puzzles into Breath of the Wild, or even entire new areas. Total-on dungeons, fifty-fifty? In that location are doubtless limitations that would make that hard, but given what Zelda modders have accomplished so far, I wouldn't be surprised.

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