How I Made My First Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Custom Track

In this video I show how I made my first Mario Kart 8 Deluxe custom track: "Nabbit's Secret Island"

Huge thanks to @Squadaloo, both for his custom track tutorial series, and inspiring the creation of this video.
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Hello everyone, Rimea here!
This channel is all about modding modern Mario games such as Super Mario Bros. Wonder and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.
Apart from showcasing my mods, I also make videos explaining the mod creation process.
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[Getlucky]

I like how despite being a secret island Nabbit build a giant sign that says it's his secret island

[De_an]

Messing around with baked lighting is quite possibly the boldest thing you could've done for your first custom track.

[capzone]

I really want to see more of these, I love to hear you talk about the design process of your levels/tracks it helps a lot to learn and understand what makes good Level design. Especially because for me it's far harder to grasp what makes the level design of a Mario Kart track good and how to make a track feel right in comparisson to 2D Mario Levels

Love your mods and videos

[ARDIZsq]

Instead of trying to revamp this track, you could make New Nabbit’s Island, like maybe Nabbit abandoned this one for a bigger better one. Also the “New” in the name serves as both an indication that this is a new version of this concept, and it’s a reference to the NSMB series.

[EftelingCoasterfreak]

Rimea, you're such a perfectionist, every modder would call this a perfect track (and it is), it looks great insanely impressive for your first track

[Hazzardous]

Dude, what?! This is one of my favourite MK8D modded tracks, I find the "baby park-like" tracks super entertaining.

The corner you're worried about the jank on here is also a really interesting challenge to learn how to drift on, I initially thought it was just designed by a much better player than me, I never imagined the layout was just a test track!

[reigliss]

This is better visual quality than many of the booster pack tracks. Good stuff man.

[muno]

if nothing else, it's honestly pretty interesting to see what happens when you take a flawed concept/layout and apply really good polish/visuals to it 😅

[benvictim]

I know you said you don't think the track is that great... But my friends and I enjoy this track. The short nature with extra laps makes it fairly unique.

[chaoboi]

I kinda like the roughness of the first track, it adds a bit of charm that fits with it being a bootleg racing course on a secret island

[FuzeCorp]

Id like to see more Rimea Mario kart vids also I played the track and I liked don't beat yourself up it's awesome especially as someone who loves nabbit

[necrozma_mk]

Honestly with it being your first time ever modeling a track it looks really good. Something that usally drags mk8 cts down is that lighting looks off in some way or that characters are lit differently or weirdly but all of your tracks look amazing

[Langas_Konoe]

Nabbit Secret Island is great, a friend of mine loved this track too

[BaconFearMC]

I saw this upload and saw the thumbnail then realized it was 7 minutes ago, I was like Yoooo a Mario Kart Rimea vid!!! Would love to see more of this!

[JamesCharles]

Absolutely loved this video, amazing work!!!

[Pratendo]

Wtf, how did I miss your channel? You are by far one of the best mario kart 8 custom track creator out there. The level of detail is just incredible, even fully undistinguishable from the original.
Btw. many tracks in the original MK8 can’t even handle 200ccm. So don‘t worry at all. I am just amazed that I finally found custom tracks that hold up to the quality of Nintendo. Really great job👍

[jeremied]

You're a great designer and creative mind Rimea! You're absolutely right, very few MK modders think about track design the way you think about level design in general. I'm so happy to see you bring your design skills to MK. It's a shame it's so much more work to make 3D tracks than it is 2D levels, but I look forward to see whatever you make next!

[_nRool]

Just wanted to say your Custom tracks are always a favourite of our group, absolutely love Moo Moo Mountain and Shipwreck Shore, can’t wait to see else you make

[NerdFromCO]

This was intriguing. I think you and Squadaloo are the two best custom track builders in MK8D, so to see how exactly you do it was interesting.

[Prismark]

I would really enjoy seeing more kinds of these videos.
And concerning that this was your first track you actually did an amazing job and re-using assets made it look closer to vanilla Mario Kart 8, even though the layout was a bit more rough, which isn't really a problem however, since especially in 200cc not many tracks actually work and ask the player to fully understand the controls.
Overall this is a very good track.