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[dedBuNNy]

Mooooooooooo !! 

[Dazmaniac]

Baaaaaaaa!!

 

[dedBuNNy]

Just seemed kinda sad there was no action down here... Poor TerrainF just hangin' waitin ...

 

Speaking of ...  What's the dealeo with it anyway?

[blueblood1995]

I think Terrain Forge is a bit like Course Forge but for terrain. Could be wrong!😝

[Kablammo11]

It should be either a Unity plug-in or a standalone mini-app (don't know which) that will allow designers to pick, grab and convert real-world terrains from bing maps and import them into Unity without much fuss. Locating an existing golf course and dragging it into Unity, importing it both as a layout image and with the correct 3D terrain elevation data, would become a lot easier and quicker.

 

It was once called Terrain Importer and later got re-christened to its current, ungainly name. It's current status, I guess, is: dormant.

[Keith]

Really hope this is still in the works.  The demo Andrew did looked very promising. 

[M Rose]

This will be a game-changer, especially for real courses.

 

As a Links designer I am reluctant to attempt a real course from scratch in APCD because the elevation data is hard to get without a lot of extracurricular stuff. That's the hard part. The real courses I have done were from plots somebody else did.

[karma4u]

Damn silly, but couldn't help myself.............Helloooo............  

[IanK]

It should be either a Unity plug-in or a standalone mini-app (don't know which) that will allow designers to pick, grab and convert real-world terrains from bing maps and import them into Unity without much fuss. Locating an existing golf course and dragging it into Unity, importing it both as a layout image and with the correct 3D terrain elevation data, would become a lot easier and quicker.
 
It was once called Terrain Importer and later got re-christened to its current, ungainly name. It's current status, I guess, is: dormant.

I have mentioned this before but am using a very similar program which I downloaded from The Asset Store. It's called World Composer.
It gets excellent reviews too.

[Crusher]

I won't build them but I sure will play them.  Looking forward to seeing the PG players/course-designers amass 1000's of courses.

[IanK]

I won't build them but I sure will play them.  Looking forward to seeing the PG players/course-designers amass 1000's of courses.

I'm pretty sure the amount of courses won't run into the thousands. I think the whole process of creating courses will be too time consuming for many.

[M Rose]

As long as it's easier to use than the Links designer, I'll try to crank a bunch out as soon as I can.

[Andrew]

Greetings!!!!

[IanK]

I'm pretty sure the amount of courses won't run into the thousands. I think the whole process of creating courses will be too time consuming for many.

I've been using CF now for a couple of weeks and I've realised that my statement above was incorrect. CF does look a bit intimidating to start with but you can work at a pretty smart pace once you get used to it.

[M Rose]

It will still take time for the real high quality work, but not nearly what Links did.

Weeks instead of months.

[Crusher]

Like many, I will enjoy the courses as the designers become better and better. Good luck with your learning curves!

[brokenclub]

augusta national, please someone build it.

[Andrew]

A nice 1M lidar data is available for this course.  Also we built it already but they will not give us permission to release it so we will not.  I am sure a user will be along to do it soon though

[FixAmer1st]

A nice 1M lidar data is available for this course.  Also we built it already but they will not give us permission to release it so we will not.  I am sure a user will be along to do it soon though

That is just so Stupid. Just how can releasing a computer version of their course hurt them in  any way IRL.

 

Maybe we should stop watching their TV broadcasts.  After all, how do we know it is a real course too.

 

It's just so silly.

 

Jerry