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[garynorman]

Looks great   Particularly impressed with the grass... 

[Kablammo11]

Yes Sir Ian, keeping it coming, Sir, right away, Sir! 

 

 

 

 

​(there also will be bushes and rocks and other smallish whatnots added… later...)

[Keith]

Course is REALLY coming together K11..looks freakin' great.

[KenR]

Nice job K11, really coming along!

[highfade]

 Hope to play this baby some day soon!

[Kablammo11]

Thanks guys. I'm not quite happy yet - that grass is a bit too riotous for my stern tastes. I need a bit more base grass (a bit better one than I'm using now) and confine myself to a few small islands of full bloom. Sorry, but I am a "Less is more" guy… there's a weekend ahead, so I can put in a few more hours these next days. To be continued 

Also, just to dampen spirits, did you know that Unity allows for a maximal grass distance of 250 meters (a bit less than 280 yds)? So it's impossible to cover everything with it. And on some flythroughs from an elevated position you might actually see the grass fading itself into view in the distance… Frankly, I showed you the nice and fotogenic spots with my pictures. There are many angles and perspectives that are not nearly as glorious...

[Mike Jones]

Clever use of matching ground textures will make the fade almost invisible if done well. As with all things in real time engines, it's a compromise between quantity and speed. 

[garynorman]

With performance in mind, will dropping a character controller in the scene and wandering around give you a decent idea of the likely frame-rate when playing the course through PG? 

[Mike Jones]

Sure in unity you can bring up the 'stats' in play mode to see how many polygons are in the scene.

[IanD]

Whilst only wishing to touch briefly on this, bearing in mind how often K11's thread gets hijacked.. but I'm guessing we're likely to see low end pc's struggle playing Perfect Golf due to our Courses being polygon heavy..? How heavy is too heavy...?

[Mike Jones]

Like I said in another thread, the graphics can be scaled down to to even run on phones (tested and working) so you'll be able to play PG on a wide range of hardware eventually. This is why we have detailed level options so you can turn things off or on depending on your hardware spec.

[Davefevs]

Like I said in another thread, the graphics can be scaled down to to even run on phones (tested and working) so you'll be able to play PG on a wide range of hardware eventually. This is why we have detailed level options so you can turn things off or on depending on your hardware spec.

That is good news.....although the economy of buying a new pc to play high end detail PG will not be ruled by logic. Sorry K11 for the derail response!!

[Kablammo11]

No problem, Dave and Ian. Solliciting three separate replies by MJ within a few hours is a truly astounding feat, and I'm proud of hosting this ultimate highlight of threadjacking in this my humble thread.

[Kablammo11]

Well, I'm done with anything "grass" for now - I'm still quite unhappy with the Unity grass engine atm. I wanted to go for something in the style of Merion 2013 and all I managed to get was (see pictures above), a multichromatic jamboree of Kew Gardens in a psychedelic trance. 

So I curtailed my grass chores and turned my attention on other things. There is still so much else to look into and take care off:

- Forest ground and undergrowth

- shrubs and bushes

- Stones and rocks

- The shorelines of the ponds

And all of these will be taken care of, in due time, as well the grasstastrophic grass issue (once my wrath has simmered way back down to the melting point of steel).

 

But for the moment, after my defeat in the grass wars of Willow Heath, I craved a quick and easy win. So I made and added a few bulkheads...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[garynorman]

Good looking retaining walls...  Can I ask how you went about measuring the dimensions and shape of them prior to making them?  Are they in sections or just one large object?

[Kablammo11]

They are 3 different retaining walls, gary - triplets. 1 straight, 1 bending left, 1 bending right - the latter 2 being a bent version of the former one, with identical textures and normal map. The pieces are put together wherever you see the slightly larger vertical part.

I set them each to a length of about 9 yds and a height of a little bit less than 6 ft after having measured out the entire green with the measuring tape (it's one of the largest, 40yds front to end) (the green, not the tape).

I imported all 3 elements into Unity and then duplicated them along the sketch lines of my design to get them in line. There are places where I deviated a bit from the intended trajectory, because I felt it looked a bit cooler doing it slightly different (like adding a sharp-ish bend in what was originally planned to be all-around soft and rounded.

I also could have taken a top-down screen cap of the CF outlines, imported that as a background into my 3d modelling app (ac3d), and performed the final assembly to scale there, ending up with a single, matching mesh object to import into Unity. 

 

These babies are a bit different because they are very long - Wooden bulkheads, a selection of them probably shipping with CF and made by PP, should come at a lenght of 1 to 2 yds per element, which means you can set one and then go ahead an duplicate them easily along the intended contour inside Unity without having to measure them out at all.

[garynorman]

Excellent, many thanks

[Keith]

Love the red brick style bulk heads.  They look great.

[Kablammo11]

Thank you. A reflection in the water would really make them look higher and less fragile. And the reed grasss would also profit immensely from it.

Sorry about the aquatic limitations, guys. I'm inches away from buying an add-on to get this sorted...

[IanD]

Hmmmm buying....?! Stands with hands on hips lol...

 

Loved the images and work K11... just have to keep admiring them.