DoGgz: "ok ok no bonsai...wow! restraint and harmony you say...start practicing what you may or may not be preaching, a simple thanks but no thanks would have sufficed
Thanks but no thanks, then.
Neal, please don't make excuses for me: That was no "Thanks!" and I do despise all humans equally.
Sorry for the ruffled feathers, but I do get a tad cross whenever somebody starts making suggestions about my designs, no matter whether they are valid and helpful - or spontaneous and a bit facile. No matter which, to me they are always unwelcome - that's just me, and I am committed, as my way of keeping the peace, to firmly STFU about other members designs and all the not-quite-thoroughly-thought-through little things I keep spotting in them.
Oh dear, they are going to call me arrogant, now... Neal, what's the excuse for that one?
Now then. Today's subject is... objects. Let's review:
We start with the must-have structure for all matters Shinto (turns out it ain't a bonsai): A Torii. This one also acts als landmark that stands out to be seen from far away - a constant theme in all my projects.
The clubhouse is meant to be designed in classic Shinto architecture: A wooden building with a tile roof, standing elevated above the ground. This is meant to be a Shoguns very private country retreat, to where he would flee from his palace to ponder whatever a Shogun ponders when he doesn't feel like doing Shogun things. Also booze and women. And music, calligraphy and poetry, a bit of ikebana on the side, that sort of stuff.
The tees are all round, we touched that, and come with the usual paraphernalia: A bench, a bucket, a ballwasher and a decorative little background fence (just because, why the heck not).
Every now and then you will come across these Warrior Shrines, erected by the Shogun to honour the memory of his fallen Samurai. They are very helpful at providing golfers with aiming help and a general idea of where the terrain needs to go. In the instance below, there's two of them on the 6th par 5 hole, for players to aim right between them to find the green with their uphill shots.
Next up, the Rain Shelter and/or Shadowy Resting Place. Or just a waiting area because the (BLEEP)ing four ball ahead is playing so (BLEEP)ing slow... The usual miniature versions of the clubhouse, located strategically across the course.
Small Footbridges offer access to islands and across the shores of the central swamp-pond. They used to be larger, but where made smaller only recently to prevent a certain buffoon-in-chief from driving his caddy cart onto the greens.
The Retaining Walls are... retaining and whatnot.
And finally, the Ronin Graves mark spots where the dead bodies of infidel Ronins were sunk into the swamp. Unlike the Warrior Shrines, golfers should never attempt to land their balls anywhere near these...
All these things have been designed by me as low-poly game objects. Seen from close, they are clunky and fugly, on account of me keeping the poly-count low. And, those with trained eye may have spotted this already by recognising common patterns, they all were made from the same texture map and all share the same material:
Which is cheap and lazy, admittedly. And also a bit Zen in its own way: To conjure up complexity from simplicity.
Nah, seriously, it's mainly laziness.
Sorry for the wall of text, but it isn't easy to compete for top forum berths against all the other current threads, all of them so freshly original and highly interesting. Oh dear, now they will call me a cynic. Neal?
