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ChameleonCK

ChameleonCK (or simply Chameleon; abbreviated to CCK) is a tool for chroma keying in Super Mario 64, which includes a Mario 64 Movie Maker 3 add-on meant to be used together with a special ROM or save state. It is also highly recommended to use Tiny-Huge Tweaks alongside this tool.

The custom model shown can be found here

Installing and using

1. Make sure you have the latest version of M64MM3 installed.

2. Get the save state and/or the ROM version¹ from here (ignore the ROM Hack Source folder if you're a normal user).

3. Download the latest version of the add-on. It will be in a .zip archive.

4. Extract the downloaded archive's contents² into the root folder³ of M64MM3. If it prompts you to replace files, then do it.

5. If you're using the ROM version:

   • Go to Bob-Omb Battlefield, which is replaced with the chroma key stage.

   If you're using the save state:

   • In Project64, go to Options > Settings… > Options, and make sure Hide advanced settings is disabled. After that, launch a normal Super Mario 64 ROM, then go to System > Load…, and select the save state. If it gives a warning about the ROM not matching the save state, then simply click “Yes.” You don't have to load the save state over the ROM version; you can use the save state with a normal Super Mario 64 ROM, too.

6. That's all.

Questions

“If I use ChameleonCK for my work, do I have to credit you?”

Credit is highly appreciated, but completely optional!

“Can it be used with custom player models?”

Yes! You can use CometCHAR to patch the ROM version with a CMTP file.

“Why are the colors slightly different when enabling/disabling Hide Stage?”

When Hide Stage is disabled, what you are seeing is the stage itself, but when it's enabled, then the stage doesn't get rendered, and instead you are seeing the skybox. The stage's material uses an RGBA32 color, which has a higher bit depth; SM64's skybox uses RGBA16, which has a lower bit depth.

Building prerequisites

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• Visual Studio 2022.
• M64MM3's repository in a folder called M64MM outside of where this repository is.
  • Example: if the .sln for BodyStates is in C:/projects/ChameleonCK/ChameleonCK.sln, the whole M64MM3 repository must be in C:/projects/M64MM.
• If you're on Windows, then, before extracting the archives, make sure to right-click the archive, open Properties and see if you have an Unblock checkbox. If you do, tick it and press Apply. If you don't do this and the archive(s) remain blocked, you may run into issues.
• Depending on the circumstances, you may have to do the following: go to Menu > Tools > NuGet Package Manager > Package Manager Console and enter Install-Package HtmlRenderer.WinForms. After that, go to Menu > Project > Manage NuGet Packages…, and make sure that both HtmlRenderer.Core and HtmlRenderer.WinForms are up-to-date.

Credits

• GlitchyPSI (his website) — help with this add-on.
• LiquoricePie (Bluesky) — icon for the add-on.

Footnotes

1. For legal reasons, to get the ROM version, you need to have an original US ROM of Super Mario 64 that you then need to patch with the BPS file, which can be done using this website. ↩

2. That means all the contents, including the deps folder. If it crashes when opening the About window, make sure that you have HtmlRenderer.dll and HtmlRenderer.WinForms.dll in M64MM's deps folder. ↩

3. That's the same folder where M64MM.exe is located. ↩