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[slewin]

Matthew,
My version of RM was massively over ambitious and pushed APCD too far and I passed it on to Jason as I had moved on to CF. Sand belts will be tough to get right due to limitations with bunkers in particular. I achieved the sand belt look with 7 blends and much tweaking. As for gum trees it maybe possible within speedtree. If you don't have a subscription it's well worth starting to learn.

Would be great to see RM that's for sure.

[M Rose]

I'm gonna try it anyway.

[jt83]

I'm still wondering if the ELVIS government site could prove useful.  A 5m grid derived from Lidar sounded promising, but on page 2 of this forum someone was talking about 30m spacing?

[Lance]

It looks like it's a case of *IF* the area of your interest has 5m source available it can be downloaded.

A good method would be to pick a course, check in Google Earth to get North and South Latitudes, along with West and East Longitudes and then see if Elvis has the data or if he's left the building...

The extracts mentioned on page 2 are in 30m spacing, but that doesn't mean that there might not be 5m spacing available.

[olazaboll]

I have Royal Melbourne Composite course on APCD, If you want that. It is accurate data taken from an xbox version (tiger woods)

 

Peter

And how did that work ... to get the data out from the X-box ?

Reason I ask is that I have Links 2004 on X-box ( the old one ) and it comes with The New South Wales Golf Club

[Unique]

I was sent the data from someone. Each hole was separate data. I had to load each hole in APCD and stitch them together . I don't know how the data was extracted.

[olazaboll]

Ok ... that sounds like really hard work ,,, still the courses of LinksK4 can be used for reference ,,,, so the old X-box machine might have a 2nd life after all  

[Brucey Mc]

Olazaboll I was able to extract the data from links2k4 from the Xbox and look at the files for each course. i was unable to do much with them unfortunately. There were 3d model files but I never cracked the format of them. The terrain data seemed to be in some sort of lod format that made no sense to me

[jt83]

 

Keep trying boys 

[Unique]

Andrew would be the one to talk to about the terrain files

[olazaboll]

 

Keep trying boys 

6th at NSW ?

[jt83]

13th.  The 6th is probably the most renowned, but there'd be a few good looking holes on that course.