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[Drrobmiller]

Well,....Ive been away for a while on the front lines of Covid,...decided to chime in.

INCREDIBLE PHOTOS......

 

 

cant wait to play

 

 

wonderful work Birdie!!

 

 

 

Dr Rob

[Birdie]

Thanks, Doc! Glad that you like it and great to see you back - eventually with some plans for a new course.. ?

[Drrobmiller]

well....I dont know.  its been quite some time that I designed, cant really think of anything lately that would let me pick it back up again but who knows?  

 

do miss designing though

 

Rob

[sideshowbob]

Hi Birdie, and news on your next release of this course?

Thanks.

[Birdie]

I changed the plan a bit and want to complete it a bit more before a next release. There was still one part of the course covering 5-6 holes with that i had to transfer to Blender to prepare it for some vertex blended shading like on the other 2/3, doing custom cartpaths and whatever. And yes, i don't have the most straight forward workflow... Shouldn't have said "soon" again probably. After i did i started feeling a bit in a hurry which kills the fun a bit. Stupid me... 

[Birdie]

Some more slowfood F5ers showing some latest experiments in humidity...

 

[SReesor]

Incredible work!  Inspiration for me to keep working on courses. Looking forward to the next update. 

[Birdie]

On the real life counterpart there is a double stage clubhouse pool so i'll try to include something similar. Reflections are a bit screwed up atm due to the clipping setting which is defined to the much lower laying lakes and ponds on the course. These are some shots where it's not too obvious...

 

[jt83]

Hazard stakes look a bit slanted around the island green?

[Buck]

Looks very nice Birdie -- hope you don't get snapped up by Trackman and then we never get a final version of Manila!

[Birdie]

Hazard stakes look a bit slanted around the island green?

They are just there from a test run and thus not positioned correctly for now. 

 

Looks very nice Birdie -- hope you don't get snapped up by Trackman and then we never get a final version of Manila!

Don't worry, i'm too slow for Trackman.

[Birdie]

3d rough all over the course driven by a new lighting setup coming to your test drives. Could also finally split back my three monsterous six hole meshes in Blender by materials and in small peaces while keeping the normals intact. Thanks to some custom normals transfer which i didn't get working in the past. Offers some performance options and makes adding colliders for the grounds really simple again. Before i had to prepare extra meshes for colliders and these stupid things...

 

 

 

 

[Buck]

Good lord -- just glorious screenshots...

 

Beautiful work Birdie!

[jt83]

Going for the recently re-turfed look on the greens?

[Birdie]

Nothing really new on my greens. Still the only parts that (have to) use the PP layers.

[Birdie]

... On the other hand, since the first preview probably everything has changed...

[jt83]

I don't recall the first preview having that tiled look on the greens, but it's been a while since I've played it.

[Birdie]

Some when in between I retouched the greens to better match the surrounding custom materials. I think I just used my tee maps as a base in the PP layers green and used the fresnel a tiny bit(which I normally never liked) and added some additional normals for the mowing details or so. I think DP did this already some years ago and on Bortimus' latest course it got my attention to add these mower details.

[J_Schollmeyer]

"3d rough all over the course driven by a new lighting setup coming to your test drives."

 

Does this mean we can awaite a new alpha in a reasonable short time?

[Birdie]

Let's say yes...