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[Kablammo11]

Holy Sagebrush, that's magnificent K. 

Love the S.O.S. hole, dot dot dot dash dash dash dot dot dot

 

Since you ask: That would be the 14th, par 4, 485y and 35ft uphill. Tee shots from the tournament tees are scheduled to land around between the 1st and 2nd round bunker (the other ones are for the advance tees). The fairway slopes towards the bunkers. There is room for a bail out tee shot to the left, but this will come at the risk of a longer and blind second shot from behind the hillock in the corner of the dogleg. Natural drawers should enjoy this one, natural faders will dread it.

Then again, the further right your tee shot ends up, the worse the angle for your second shot gets. At least I added a bit of fairway around the green, for all those who manage to get it up there to pitch and putt for par.

 

 

[Kablammo11]

Thank you. Meshes done for now, I'm starting to add normal-mapped desert textures to the landscape:

 

 

 

[highfade]

Love the textures K11, looks like another beauty.

 

[NoPutt]

[IanK]

Superb K11. I can't wait to get my hands on CF. I hope it's sooner rather than later because none of us are getting any younger.

[Kablammo11]

Thank you. Uum... those textures are 100% Unity. I know what you mean, but still...

[mcthommo]

Looking good K11

[Kablammo11]

tyvm

 

[NoPutt]

No where near the D_ _ _ _ word, in fact unworldly,

almost alien type terrain. Fantastic layout K, I still favor

14, but 12 with that splat bunker is a close second. 

Good thing the air is dry and thin, looks like I'm gonna need all the  

carry I can get.  

[Kablammo11]

the 12th

 

[Brucey Mc]

Reminds me of the bunkering at the Montgomerie course in Dubai, am I allowed to say that?

[Dazmaniac]

Reminds me of the bunkering at the Montgomerie course in Dubai, am I allowed to say that?

 

I would think so. You didn't say the other 5 letter D-word, lol.

 

[highfade]

With the right planting this could be a venue for the Phoenix Open   

[Kablammo11]

Yep, there is an Arizona/Scottsdale vibe to it now. 

Well, more eye candy for you to help us get over the stifling inertia around here. The 13th first: Downhill all the way, short, easily manageable with irons. Exhausting the full length of the upper fairway or keeping the tee shot very short will depend on the position of the pin on the small peninsula green below. 

 

 

The 15th, diveable 295y par 4 (20ft uphill). No room for error whatsoever. Stray shots will be diverted to the left or the right. Right is better than left. Still about the only birdie hole you'll get at the Lodge.

 

 

Short 16th (15th green in the foreground). 40ft downhill. To be safe, land your ball on the fw and let it feed onto the green. Another very ludicrous ornamental bunker to admire (shaped in delicate bad taste for the golf tourists) that will look great in a glossy golfer magazine yet serve no real purpose other than that.

 

 

And the 2nd par 3 in a row, 25ft uphill and 255y long, the 17th. I will probably smack a high driver up there and go for a pitch from behind, because anything short of the green will come to roll back down and leave me marooned in bogeyland.

 

[NoPutt]

Unadulterated madness, I'll need to hire a psych coach

to get me through, and a grief counselor afterwards.

[Kablammo11]

Your cute little Rover is about to send disturbing images back to Earth, Deena. 

Brief exposition afore I explain further: With the U5 conversion of PG and its tremendous toll on manpower, support on the CF side has all but vanished in the last weeks. Without any additional input on lighting, new shaders, vegetation workflow and a few dozen more crucial things I risk to cause the project involuntary damage - or at least huge delays - by not knowing all that I need to know now. It's a little revolution, and revolutions always are cruel and violent. Hence my reticence to push on.

What's left for me to do is to slowly take care of the safe stuff. And there was one thing that I always knew needed more attention. This:

 

 

The first draft for the central Casino/Hotel. It looks barely acceptable. Also, these being the vicissitudes of 3D design when hamfistedly undertaken by non-geek clowns like me, it did not really look like what I truly had in mind to begin with. I wanted something modern and vast, slightly ethnic, yet dominant and powerful. 

I also wanted it to be slightly reminiscent of Jabba's Barge - and I must insist that this is not related to my perennial fantasy of coaxing Tara into a Slave Leia outfit. Anyway, this called for a complete redo and here is the new thing:

 

 

Locals call it "The Porcupine", because of the many spikes on top. Actually, they called it "The Blunder Dome", but I sent Tara over with a platoon of French Foreign Legion mercenaries to gently enforce the official terminology.

Note how the Casino complex resembles a prison. That's because both types or buildings use similar structures to keep the inmates customers in: Outer wings converging on a central control space. The Porcupine features 192 living units, each with it's own balcony. Every wing has a top deck underneath shade panels.

 

 

The Porcupine will be visible from each part of the course and double as a landmark and orientation point for golfers on their rounds.

 

 

Now for rain shelters, benches, waste baskets, ball washers, low walls, tee markers... no rush.

[highfade]

Much better K11. Not too sure about the draped sisal carpet for the main roof 

[NoPutt]

Although I very much liked the whimsical, carnival, type atmosphere 

of the other structure, The Porcupine should keep your Golfing Prisoners

occupied and spending freely during nightly lockdowns. 

Superb Build K, love it!

Think you could get me a poster of Rita Hayworth?