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[Birdie]

Birdie, I'm wondering if you have fixed any of the issues reported after you released the first preview version. For example, adding collision properties to trees and drops when balls are hit in to hazards. If I remember correctly there were a couple of tee boxes that had trees directly in front.
I am waiting for these fixes before playing your course again. Thanks.

I already fixed some stuff in the meantime. I know it often takes a bit longer when in between I try other things too. But it's also great fun and also my personal interest to get a little more familiar with other tools by doing so.

[Birdie]

Birdie, great work. I love your persistence.

I have no clue about how you've accomplished that. I am curious, though, did you ever try and import the .blend file?

Simply importing the blend file doesn't work with this kind of stuff. At least not in Unity 5.2.3f. For newer versions there exists an Alembic importer and the stuff I mentioned and things should be more straightforward there. And we simply have the problem with the scripts not working here. Else it also would be quite simple in our version too.

[Birdie]

To fill the empty space a bit...

Still having fun with this one. But mainly testing this and that. Reshade raytracing is on in some of these screens where the fps are a bit lower. But no problem, the RTX3080 will be released before this course is finished...

[Buck]

Lovely as ever!

 

I'm very happy you released the work in progress version when you did.  We enjoy it to this day.

 

If you ever see fit to push another minor update as progress goes along, please absolutely do so!

[xooze]

It looks so real, just beautiful.

[Niblick47]

Any news on progress on this beauty?

[Birdie]

I'm still working on the course nearly everyday or night and still really enjoy it. I just wanted to show some really cool height blending and splatmapping shaders these days. They are not labeled for our Unity version but with some tiny edits they do work and I think they spit out exciting results. Hopefully tonight I can share some bits.

[Birdie]

Preview build 2 should be ready soon... 

[Stingreye]

Preview build 2 should be ready soon...

Can’t wait to see the progress!

[Buck]

YES!!!

Awesome

[Birdie]

Some Trunk 'n Golf from the upcoming preview...

[slouis]

I'm wondering if you have collision properties and drops in the next preview.  

[Birdie]

No drop zones and still not everything colliding as I still change vegetation. Generally a lot of areas didn't get nearly no attention since the first preview. I made a lot of testing and practicing in textures, materials and retouching stuff in Blender. So this is just a bit of a showcase if one likes to check it out. I never stated it as a beta or even alpha so don't expect things to behave like such. Let's call it a preview of some single features. If you want a full featured course better don't check it out.

[Birdie]

Faking finals on an unfinished course with Reshade and raytracing applied to kill fps.

[DPRoberts]

Birdie, gorgeous images. That last one is surely a photo of the diorama you've been building.

Question about the third image down with Harry in the bunker. Do you think it's not possible with the lighting/shadowing to get the same shadow effect on your bunker edge? Harry casts a long shadow to the right. Surely, the bunker mesh should do similar. It's something I've wondered for a while but not spent too much time trying to solve.

[Birdie]

I will have a look for the shadows when on my PC next time. I think I had them casting from the edges farer in the past but I'm not sure if it was only when the directional light was at a very low angle. You're definitely right, it looks a bit wrong.

[Birdie]

By lowering the directional light's angle from 36 to maybe 18 degrees you definitely get a stronger shadow casting from the bunker edges in this spot. But at the same time it makes other parts on the course maybe look a little wrong from the another side. It probably would require some adjustments again.

I think we are also used to make the edges or falloffs very soft to prevent texture stretching. When i made some tests with follow active quads unwrapping on the bunker edges i could produce much steeper bunker edges without stretching. With a top view unwrap this is for sure not ideal. So the shadow definition also depends a bit on the geometry. Some of my palm trunks are now part of the underlying ground mesh and they cast correct shadows. That's a bit of an example that it depends a bit on the angle or height of the geometry.

[Stingreye]

That’s amazing! Pushing the limits of PG!

[Crusher]

Amazing detail! Nice job!

[Birdie]

Thanks! And sure when posting screens i try to post not the worst spots of the course. But the longer it takes the easier to find nice spots. Went back to school now, watching MJ and DPRoberts videos about tee markers and hazard/dropzones. I focus on this and hope to have it done in a few nights. I have also nearly seamless transitions from custom materials to the last residents of CF meshes (the greens) now so this should also look less gappy in the next build.

So far, Merry Christmas and stay healthy everyone!