http://www.perfectparallel.com/articles/_/products/course-forge/ Wed, 29 Apr 2026 03:05:13 +0000 86400 Blog articles about Course Forge http://www.perfectparallel.com/articles/_/products/course-forge/courseforge%e2%84%a2-in-action-r43
Our Kickstarter funding drive is now underway so if you want to be using these tools to create your own golf course please pledge so we can get this show on the road!


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First of all you use a simplified version of Unity's Terrain sculpting tools to mould the terrain, it's like a paintbrush but you're painting hills, slopes and valleys instead. If you can use any computer paint program such as MS Paint you can use this!





Once you're happy with your bunker elevations you can now draw the more detailed bunker outline in our shape drawing tool. Make sure 'bunker' is ticked.





Click 'Create bunker' - This creates your detailed bunker mesh automatically.





Click 'Finish' - This adds the textures and dirt lip automatically. Of course if you want more control you can easily change the textures and the type of bunker edge ie grass, dirt etc for a different look.





That's it!



With lots of automation like this which takes the hard work out of building your course, you can spend more time designing it and less time building it. Share it with the Online community and have it played and rated by other players. If we like it, we'll use it for one of our real time tournaments and you'll get rewarded with special 'in game' items only available to course builders.

These tools are for you. Go on..... be creative!]]> Thu, 06 Dec 2012 11:53:41 +0000 0f28b5d49b3020afeecd95b4009adf4c http://www.perfectparallel.com/articles/_/products/course-forge/reticulating-splines-r32
Ok so I wanted my first dev blog post, as lead programmer, to be about one of my favorite things: splines!

As many of you who have developed virtual courses know, spline tools are essential to the design process. They are often used to define basic shapes for bunkers, fairways, greens, etc. - which further define vertices and polygons that eventually make up a hole.

Well for our course designer tool, we decided to leverage the power of splines as much as possible so that you can spend more time drawing out and designing your course, and less time adding and manipulating individual vertices. The result is a very powerful parametric spline tool that allows for varying degrees of detail and automation for different course components. For instance, say you wanted to create a bunker. Using our spline tool you can outline the shape of the bunker you want, leave the default bunker automation parameters as they are, hit generate, and a bunker equipped with an automated dirt lip, textures, normals and smooth tesselation  is created on-the-fly:


This image is the result of bunker automation with default parameters.

Different bunker parameters will affect the automation process, creating different essential types, while further editing features allow the meticulous to fine tune.

Our goal was to take out a lot of the tedious work involved with designing courses without getting in the way of creativity, and as this tool develops further we will continue to adhere to that goal.

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