Yes funnily I own the golf academy there..(golf pro by trade) - so its where I play. I want to get some home practice in on the simulator once it’s built._ just hope its Up to par when it comes out- doing my best to keep up with the crazy good designers on here. - not easy. It’s not looking bad though but a ways to go. Whole buch of houses that’s for sure,, so that’s interesting? So far so good though performance wise. I designed a few good courses on Tgc 2 n 1. That got some recognition in there day (fictional). (Only had Xbox then as my pc couldn’t handle match) ... but got a proper pc earlier this year .. n unity and haven’t looked back. At the end of the day it just seems that the possibilities are limitless. Been following this form since the beginning. And was just blown away once got playing. I think when I first saw dogs train and later moving cars at a Brit course (can’t remember which one) and one at chambers bay, And then the overlay method came out n I was like ok- this is serious now. I need to study lidar techniques , etc etc — a lot.. and you def have to dig for the gems of advise. But got there just about. Still so much to learn though - I’m defiantly newbie.
Anyway replying to Rob - lol — yeah thx rob.. I wasn’t signed in so of course I could only see some posts not others.. when I got your message I’m like ‘ wats he talking about 200 post’? .... signing in helped !
- well I’ve read them all. Dloded the turf and played around. I’m having some issues for sure. So looking forward to that tutorial!
Here’s wat I worked out: perhaps you can let me know where I’m right /wrong
1) Finding it very hard to get short n dense. The prob is density on short grass. - I guessed at your tip of super wide something.. and dl a pic of grass blades put on a transparent background and then experimented with image size - super wide aspect ratio. Did not really work lol
2) density looks good at 6 and maxing out fall off and in But seems to effect performance. I have gt1080 so should be fine. And play scioto 3d no probs.
3). Are just realized something your keeping the fall of dist fairly close. I can get grass short n dense but not with long fall off. So that maybe the catch I gotta compromise. Prob for me at Eagle overlay is that my overlay textures were very pale. Which I boosted with tint. But as soon as I ad add 3d to spline it it shows the redraw in the dist without my tints. So looks off. Or not as good. - is this why the old fashioned tex method may be more suited. ? As this requires painting over ? Played with that too? .. I get the triangles too. Is this what you guys are talking about with duplicating splines Etc. I got lost in the science at that point.
4) I thought this tool it could be an interesting way to create heather or a hedge. 3d grass in certain places via additional splines. Essentially the tool is like an array creator it seems. So you can plug in any tex cut out with some interesting effects and wind like speed tree trees.
5) I read the manual, and it seems there a lot of possibilities, Ball trails in the rough. ? Would love to see your full 3d material in unity final settings are , I guess will wait for the tutorial. Get a bit lost on the using normal maps. And height density maps etc and - camera layers as talked about in the turf manual.
6). Lastly - I guess my question is - unless we can get the 3d rough to go out as far as one can or should see, what’s the diff in that and planting grass. (Wind effects) ? Procedure? It’s autimatically filling the whole spline mesh? Planting count limitations? I guess right.
7) lastly lastly - quick question - overlay method all looks good I think. But on my greens I have a bare circle around the cups. Showing the lidar texture again without tint. Is there a fix for this. Unfort my lidar Color was paler Than I wanted. So I tinted it a bit to get the look I wanted. But shows at the cups. By plan is to just use normal tex on greens .. am I missing something or is that the only solution.?
Here are some links to my experiments. Please don’t be two harsh I’m learning, (k-11 might have me thrashed for poor texture procedures lol) but open to lots of advise help, points in the right direction.
3d grass experiments
https://drive.google...iew?usp=sharing
Screen shot of bare patch on east race overlay green tinted :
https://drive.google...iew?usp=sharing
