Harry Potter Effect

Bugs

Bugs in alphabetic order

• Harry Potter Effect
• Item Position Bug
• KCL Glitches
• Moiré pattern
• Off-Road Glitch
• Position Jump Bug
• Slow Motion Bug
• Start Line Bug
• Ultra Shortcut
• Underground Camera Bug
• Wiggler Glitch
• Z-fighting

Advanced information

• Common Crash Causes
• Testing a Track

This page is a part of the Custom Track Tutorial.

Overview

The Harry Potter Effect is a texturing glitch that appears in many custom tracks created with the BRRES Editor. It was named after Harry Potter's invisibility cloak; it was not invisible, but it covered what was behind it.

This glitch occurs if transparent polygons in the BRRES file appear before normal ones. The previous polygon will always appear on top of the latter one, even if it is transparent.

Media

N64 Kalimari Desert (Captain Kwark & Wiimm)

A preview of the effect on GCN Sherbet Land (Tock)

Solutions

This problem can be fixed by using BrawlBox. Check this section for more information.

Make sure that, in the texture reference under each material, Scale is set to to (1,1) and Translation to (0,0). This will avoid your texture from becoming a solid color in game. Repeat the step with each material.

Anti-Harry Potter Effect

If this or some other glitch occurs after fixing your BRRES file in BrawlBox, you probably unintentionally changed another setting.

In this screenshot, the "DepthFunction" setting of the red wall was mistakenly set to "Greater" instead of "Less or Equal" like normal.

A preview of the anti-effect on Sunset Ridge

Custom Track Tutorials

Main Tutorials
Introduction – Textures – Scale – Modeling ⇒ Using Blender – BRRES: CTools
BRRES: BrawlBox – BRRES: RiiStudio – Minimap – Solidity – KCL: Wiimms Tools – KMP Editing
Object Editing – Cameras – Cannons – Post-effects – Videos

Battle Arenas
Battle Arenas – Enemy routes in battle arenas ⇒ Using Wiimm's Tools – Coins

Misc. Tutorials
Getting Files – BrawlBox Tricks – Animations – Shadows – Mipmaps
Custom Effects – Moving Terrain – Music – Ports – Paint Remakes – Tutorial Archive
Extended presence flags: Track Tutorial – LE-CODE Track FAQ

Testing and Reviewing
Testing a Track – Visual Review – Track Transformation – Fixing Errors

Software
3D Tools – BrawlBox – CTools Pack – KMP3D – KMP Cloud – KMP Modifier
Lorenzi's KMP Editor – MagicY – Material Tool – Post-Effect Editor – Wiimms SZS Tools – Wiimm's Tool Manager

Other
KMP Objects – Custom Objects – Model Database – Tutorial Archive