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[Cintigolfer]

I am just about finished with Firestone South but I'm having some issues with the lakes. They seem to act like they are frozen and the ball stays on top of them about 80% of the time. Here is a picture of the water properties.

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I have the terrain about 2 meters below the level of the lake. Does anyone know what is causing this?

[hiltonwelford]

in my lake in inspector right at the top,the name i have is the water i used which is waterplane3.you have lake hole 16.that is the only difrence i can see.

[Mike Jones]

Try reducing the Y scale to zero.

[Cintigolfer]

Changing the Y scale to 0 caused the water to turn black.  I tried .01 and it still played as frozen.

As a note, this is the same course where any trees that I planted using the painting method do not act as coliders.

[Cintigolfer]

I've tried everything that I can think of and the water still plays like it's frozen.  When I hit a ball in the water, the lie says "Rough".  Does that help anyone figure out what is going on with the water?

[johnmeyer]

It sounds like your colliders aren't working as game isn't reciognising it's hitting the water. Would make sense as you said had same thing with trees.

Have you still got mikes original tutorial scene in the project from when you imported the cf package. If so perhaps try opening that and creating a water hazard in that scene and then building a course from that scene.

If the water then works you could just right click on that water plane in heir achy, select copy, and then open up the firestonr scene and then right click and paste and see if it then works?

[Crow357]

In the Inspector window, expand Materials under the Mesh Renderer section.  What does it say in the Element 0 box?

[Cintigolfer]

Here is the water with the Materials expanded.

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[Crow357]

Here is the water with the Materials expanded.

WaterSettings.JPG

Damn. 

 

So, I noticed that your Y scale is 17.2.  I've never changed this value and noticed that mine, on all of my projects, are 17.01622.  If you just drag a water plane from the Project window into the scene, what Y scale does it have?

[Cintigolfer]

The Y scale is 17.01622.

[Crow357]

The Y scale is 17.01622.

Well, change your existing water plane to that value, compile and see what happens.

[Cintigolfer]

It sounds like your colliders aren't working as game isn't reciognising it's hitting the water. Would make sense as you said had same thing with trees.

Have you still got mikes original tutorial scene in the project from when you imported the cf package. If so perhaps try opening that and creating a water hazard in that scene and then building a course from that scene.

If the water then works you could just right click on that water plane in heir achy, select copy, and then open up the firestonr scene and then right click and paste and see if it then works?

I haven't tried a lake on other projects but I have tried painted trees and the colliders work there so I'm sure the water will work on other projects as well.  I tried to copy a waterplane from one project to another but Unity won't let me paste it.

I think there is something messed up with the project since neither painted tree colliders nor the water colliders work.  If I start a new project, what are the minimum number of files I would need to copy to the new project to see if that solves the issue?

[Cintigolfer]

I tried changing the waterplane to 17.01622 and it still plays like a frozen lake.

[Crow357]

I haven't tried a lake on other projects but I have tried painted trees and the colliders work there so I'm sure the water will work on other projects as well.  I tried to copy a waterplane from one project to another but Unity won't let me paste it.

I think there is something messed up with the project since neither painted tree colliders nor the water colliders work.  If I start a new project, what are the minimum number of files I would need to copy to the new project to see if that solves the issue?

Start a new project.  Import Course Forge.  Make a tee, a green and out of bounds splines.  Add a tee and three pins.  Compile.  Boom you have a course.

[Cintigolfer]

Just built the same hole in a new project.  The water works exactly like I would expect.  So it is isolated to this one project.  Is there any way to start a new project and then copy just the fewest files as possible from the corrupt version to the new version?

[Crow357]

I would try to copy/past the Assets/Course/Water folder from the good project to the bad project in Windows Explorer and see if that helps.  I don't think it could hurt.  Might wanna consider a backup of the folder first tho just to be safe.

[Cintigolfer]

Copying the water folder did not work.  Unless someone can determine why all of the colliders don't work, I think I need to start completely over.  The only good news is that I can use the old version as a reference.  It should make it a little faster to plant the trees.

[J.H.Buchanan]

Maybe I am an idiot but when I make a hole I only do a Save Scene as save and immediately when I do this I back up the terrain. 

 

for example I make a hole 1 then I want to play test it I play test it way before it is ever even close to be completed before planting trees water changing elevations etc. I plop down 3 tees , 3 pins some fairway and test it but anyway I would 1st do a save as  h1a  this is hole number one version A  - do not use caps then I do a terrain save with the same thing h1a  for a terrain save. 

 

If I ever have a problem which I have then I open for example scene h1a and terrain save of h1a and start back at this point knowing that at this point everything works. meaning to I have now clicked on something wrong in unity and messed it up etc. 

 

so what happens is for each hole I may have 10 saves  h1a, h1b, h1c, - h1h etc.  and the same exact names for terrain saves. 

[Cintigolfer]

 

 

Thanks to Matthew Rose, I was able to salvage the course without starting over.  For some reason, the terrain was not low enough under the water on this course.  I eventually lowered the terrain so that it was at least 20 meters under the water plane.  I might not have had to go this deep, but I needed to be deeper than 10 meters since the lake on 16 was initially only 12 meters above 0.

Since I could not lower the terrain below 0, I had to use Shimon Tools "Move the Ground" to raise the entire terrain.  I chose 10 meters since the terrain under the lake on hole 3 was about 15 meters below the lake and it was functioning properly in most areas.  After I used the "Move the Ground" tool, I rebuilt all of the splines to get them to snap to the new location of the terrain.  However, all of my hand planted trees were now 10 meters lower than they should be.  Fortunately, I had organized the hierarchy so it was very easy for me to select all of the hand planted objects and raise them approximately 10 meters (I just used the arrows in the scene window until I got them at the new correct height).

After I moved the terrain, I lowered the terrain under both lakes and then smoothed around the edges to get the transitions to look better.

[Cintigolfer]

After I released Firestone South, a few users reported an issue where the player was at a 90 degree angle to the ball.  This only happens when the ball is outside of any splines that I've drawn.  After doing some investigation tonight, I'm pretty sure the "Move the Ground" tool caused the issue.  When I went to a backup copy of the course before I used the "Move the Ground" tool, the lake issue came back but the sideways golfer issue was gone. I'll update this thread again when I know more.