Home improvements

Sorry no Tim Allen today, although I'm told he's a keen golfer and plays charity pro-ams quite regularly so maybe there's a tie in there ? ;)However I do have some homes for you. We've been creating homes that can be used in multiple locations across the world, essentially building a library of different roofs, homes, pools, gardens, outbuildings, hotels that we can put together and create neighbourhood surrounding our courses.

Starting off with the least detailed buildings and working toward the courseside hotels, homes and clubhouses it's important to keep the polycount down, as there is little point having detailed window frames on a house in the distance. Now that's attention to detail in the bad sense!

I also wanted to show you a little of the construction. Just how simple these homes need to be. Â The detail really comes out in the painted texture maps. These are small images that we wrap onto the building models. We use multiple channels inside the image to let the shaders switch colors for roofs, windows, door and more. Just another way we optimize all the content to run optimally whenever you play.







Building these homes makes it very easy for us to recreate any course in the world. surrounding it with neighbourhoods, iconic structures and skylines.



Courses in the UK are often surrounded by neighbourhoods of homes and buildings, so when viewing flybs or course guides if the homes are not there it creates a disconnect. Courses like St.Annes old links have some holes where the whole right side of the fairway is almost lined with homes. A flyby or playable course hole without those would feel wrong.

Furthermore I've been told sometimes, ' Aim for the right window of that house and you will be in position A' , taken not completely literally these tips really help. I can imagine playing our game and utilising these real life tips in your virtual competition rounds.