Wii U Cloudtop Cruise (Diego Vapy)

This article is about Diego Vapy's port. For other versions, see Wii U Cloudtop Cruise.

**Wii U Cloudtop Cruise**
Author:	Diego Vapy
Designer:	Nintendo
Version:	v2.0
Date of latest version:	2022-12-01
Editors used:	3ds Max, Blender, BrawlCrate, CTools, KMP Cloud, Lorenzi's KMP Editor, SketchUp, Wiimms SZS Tools
Scale:	120%
WBZ files:	ct.wiimm.de
Download:	Discord Icedrive (Mario Kart Wii Deluxe version) Icedrive (OptPack version)

Overview

This port is created by Diego Vapy. It uses the original model from Mario Kart 8. Since v2.0, it features animated skyships (peachtreeGC), lightning in the thunderstorm section (WLwallGC) and a ported skybox.

Credits

Mr. Brian, for creating the cloud animations, adjusting some textures and adding mipmaps since v1.0 onward, and adding the Koopa Paratroopa audience (castletree1 and gardentreeDS), Bowser's trampolines (kinoko_bend), cannon, and particle effect in the clouds in v1.0.
Josei, for the Mario Kart 8 item box model in v2.0.
Luca, for the Koopa Paratroopa objects in v2.0 (castletree2 and windmill).

Media

v2.0-pre VS Race (Dolphin)

v1.1 VS Race

v1.0 VS Race (Dolphin)

Version History

Version	Date of release	Information
v1.0	2022-02-16	First release
v1.0 Fix	2022-03-13	Fixed a trampoline position (kinoko_bend).
v1.1	2022-04-14	Update by FJRoyet: Fixed outro cameras. Fixed a bad respawn point.
v2.0	2022-12-01	Remade course model. Added shadows. Added vertex colors. Added mipmaps. Remade KCL and KMP. Imported Mario Kart 8 objects. Changed item box model. Upscaled to 120%. Moved some object positions.
v2.0.mkd	2023-01-30	Update by FJRoyet: Restored original item box model.
v2.0.opt	2023-03-10	Update by Optllizer: Changed some road collision to sticky road.
v2.0.opt2	2023-05-03	Update by Optllizer: Changed key checkpoints to allow a shortcut.