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[clubcaptain]

Brush size is set to one but it's way too big. And it doesn't keep up with the cursor movement. Using it to adjust terrain. Control texture resolution is set to 2048.

[DPRoberts]

What is the size of your terrain and what is your heightmap resolution?

Of note, it is always best to keep main terrain as small as realistically possible. On Scioto, my main terrain was 1266*1266 with a heightmap resolution of 4097. That means 0.3m/pixel (1266/4097). In that case, that blue square you have would be 0.3mx0.3m square. Yours looks to be at least 3m or larger

[clubcaptain]

Here's  a pic  of the terrain inspector panel.  I thought the values being used were pretty standard.

 

[Justin9926]

Your problem is your height map resolution. It's only 257. You want to have probably at least 2049 or 4097.

[clubcaptain]

The height map resolution was as it came in the uniity package. I changed it to 2049 and 4097 and while the brush size looks to be as it should be it's nowhere near the position of the cursor. The cursor doesn't show up in the image but it is placed midway between the fairway spline and the bunker spline.

 

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[DPRoberts]

Recalculate all your splines. When you changed your heightmap resolution, I'm guessing your terrain is now flat. So, it's possible all your splines are floating?

Also, verify your terrain is at Position 0,0,0 in the inspector

[clubcaptain]

Thanks. I got the cursor and brush back as they should be and the splines are not floating but all the bunkers are raised up now. Position is 0,0,0.

 

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[DPRoberts]

Does it look like that in the Unity editor as well? If so, post your settings for the bunker layer settings in the layers library.

Also, is there any chance your bunker splines have been locked?

I will say you happen to have the most creative problems I've ever seen in Unity with CF throughout the years. Gremlins in your PC...

[clubcaptain]

Here's a pic of the bunker settings in the LL and you can also see that the bunkers in the editor are sitting down.

 

Nothing to do with the PC matt. I think the problems started when I imported the unity package and the height was set to zero which meant I couldn't dig out any bunkers so I raised the terrain 5 meters using Shimon tools which should have worked fine. Over several days I laid out the 18 holes including bunkers, tees, FW etc with no problem. Then the brush problem arose and here we are having such fun. This situation of having bunkers like mountains happened once before and the problem then was that the height in the instructions with the heightmap was wrong. Whoever provided that heightmap worked out a new height which solved the problem.

 

[DPRoberts]

Ok. Try this now...
Go to the terrain panel and choose the button that allows you to set the height of terrain brush. It's the second from the left (I believe)

In the box for height, type in 5 and hit "flatten"

Then, recalculate all the splines for the course. Recompile a build and see what it looks like in game.

I love ShimonTools but it can introduce some minor problems with raising and lowering that I don't fully understand but we can work around.

[clubcaptain]

Yeah that did it Matt. Thanks ever so much. Terrain is flat, bunkers are flat but there is sufficient height that I can dig down quite a bit. A small side issue for anyone else that has similar problems is that some trees are suspended above ground and they are the ones dragged into the scene from the folder in the project panel rather than using the planting tool. Easy to delete.

 

A bonus is that I've always felt that my smallest brush has never been as small as I expected. Now it is very small so allowing much more detailed terrain adjustments. 

 

Must dash as I have another course with big ocean problems which I think is also connected to height issues. I'll be back - promise :-).