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[fungolfer]

Maybe some Mods could just delete the last Post. It is ok to say nothing related to the thread, but saying nothing at all seems a bit much for me...

[Mike Jones]

Done and topic restored!

[Mike Jones]

Brian... quite possibly my eyes, but are alot of the holes using sunken fairways ? It shows a few regarding several of your latest images and I'm curious to see how the ball is likely to end up in the middle of the fairway all the time based on this.

 

Maybe include a few challenges, whereby going long allows that safety, but shorter accurate shots make landing on the fairway harder, with a roll off slope etc.

 

No basins lol..

 

I told Brian about your failing eyesight and twitching clicking finger Ian and I guess he's trying to help you out a little

[Brian]

Hi guys, nice to see my topic is back up. Yesterday I worked on some CF library modifications to get the course textures looking unique. CF makes it easy to just swap out textures which can instantly make your course look different. Here are some screens from yesterday to demonstrate this.

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Ian, you make a good point. A lot of my fairways slope towards the center. I can probably adjust slopes to provide challenging/safe areas.

 

[Acrilix]

I wouldn't want to drive a cart off the end of that path in the last pic!

[Brian]

Ha, yes very slopey. Suppose it will be worth going through and smoothing out some areas

[axe360]

Or some fencing/guardrails might look nice in areas like that... Course is looking very nice! I like the way the paths are carved into the hillsides, reminds me of Wolf Creek in Las Vegas...

[Brian]

Began planting a few of the holes. Good suggestion Axe, I threw a fence in along one of the cartpaths.

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[Davefevs]

Starting to look very real!

Very impressive how quickly you're making these changes....gives us novices so e hope!

[axe360]

Yup, that looks gr8!... In the TW's CA we have to actually plant objects and we can lower and raise them incrementally, can or do you need to do that with your CA (course architect)? If so and not to be picky, can you lower that walking bridge, it looks like it is to far up in the air.. Love the fence, bam!!

[Brian]

Thanks Dave. And axe, within Unity, you can move objects around very easily right in the editor with the move gizmo. Or you can also position items numerically with x,y,z coordinates.

[axe360]

I see Brian and thank you for doing this and answering our questions as you go.. It's very cool to watch... Good luck

[dr-nix]

Perhaps a stupid question, but why don't you pick an existing piece of land and just add a golf course to it. Or is the point of this thing to create everything from scratch?!

[Brian]

Good question dr-nix. That's actually something that we were considering, and will probably eventually do. For now we wanted to demonstrate the ability to sculpt terrain yourself though and show that you can get good results even without any preexisting data.

[IanD]

I told Brian about your failing eyesight and twitching clicking finger Ian and I guess he's trying to help you out a little

Thanks Mike lol.

Liking the planting Brian, a course never looks like a course until a shadow falls onto it, unless it's a links course of course!

Talking of eyesight Mike, did you see my reply?

[Brian]

Here's some more screenshots. Almost have the front 9 holes planted

 

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[Dazmaniac]

Looking good Brian.

 

How did you find the planting of the 3D grasses went? Is it fiddly or no different to applying other terrain grasses?

 

[mjhamilton113]

How difficult is it to build those bridges and pathways made of wood. They are very impressive and seem to have come along rather quickly

[Brian]

Thanks Daz. In Unity planting 3d grasses is as simple as it is to paint textures on the terrain. The terrain tools that ship with Unity include heightmap sculpting, texture painting, tree planting and grass planting. All of which are basically brushes that you can paint the terrain with and very simple to use; each having opacity and size sliders.

 

MJ, the bridges and pathways are objects that I had modeled in Maya. Unfortunately for anything beyond basic shapes, you won't be able to model them within Unity, so a modeling package is required (of course there are free ones like Blender). I believe that when we ship Course Forge, it will include some objects like this so that the users can utilize them as well.

[Davefevs]

The textures give the course so much depth. The screenshots remind me of some P2P courses from Links like Owlestry.