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[Trath]

Is there a reason why there are not at least 2 or 3 more user created courses in EA? With all the talk around the season pass, is this why courses are not beeing released?

 

It would seem to me that there is at least 4-6 months or 2 or 3 patches until full release. Are the courses being purposefully held back? If so then besides the possible release of Bethesda we will have to soldier on with the current courses for some time. 

[Kablammo11]

Good questions, Trath. I could only offer some speculations as to why that is, so will rather keep my counsel. I can confirm from anecdotal experience that indeed there are a lot of user-made courses already finished and waiting in the wings, including my own Pommeroy's pitch and putt and par 3 course. I would say there are 12 to 15 of them overall.

 

Perhaps your query deserves a thread of its own, because it strikes me as a legitimate one. Also, as keen I may be on reaching 2K posts in here, I'd rather not accomplish this with the help of the incensed demographic that keeps haunting the season pass threads with its strident shouts of "S'cuse me? You expect me to pay for this? How dare you!"

[Unique]

Oooopppsss!!!!!!!!

[NoPutt]

Finally, something to read besides the Season Pass debate.

Just starting my next course project, Pommeroys Black Oasis.

Only 2 weeks into the design and things are coming

together nicely. Can't you picture stately tall buildings set

among gigantic black volcanic rock and encompassed by

an island paradise with free tacos on Wednesdays?

[Unique]

Bribie Island

http://imgur.com/a/iip7j

 

[Kablammo11]

Oh Neal, you! Always good for a chuckle.

 

Very nice, Unique! But you better give this away for free or else...

[Unique]

Ha Ha!!!!!! I am happy to be part of the  "clique" group  I try to stay out of those forums that argue about things not under our ability to change.

[M Rose]

Trying to get two courses ready for beta testing this weekend.

[pingzing]

Bribie Island

http://imgur.com/a/iip7j

Good start mate

Bribie island nice place to live and visit

 

Going well, i have played bribie island a few times, a few years back i shot a 79 off the stick on a rainy day the ball just stuck on the greens but had to givie it with the putter as greens were slow , love that course and clubhouse

 

Thank you mate

[Kablammo11]

Life goes on, the creation must not end.

Announcing - and committing to - a new project. World, behold the "Five Sisters"

 

 

Par 72 on a base terrain of 1700 by 1700 meter. As you can see, the layout goes out to some distant turn and then comes back - A golf game like a journey to a distant destination, followed by safe return home. This concept becomes a bit clearer if you add water to the picture, which the next image will do in a few seconds. The double lines crossing the river bed are (or will be) waterfalls.

 

 

...and the Five Sisters are the main river and it's 4 tributaries. 

There is, btw, in the Geirangerfjord in Southern Norway, an array of waterfalls called the "Seven Sisters". With this project, I am challenging myself to add two very distinct features to our CF panoply of landscape marvels: Waterfalls and a whitewater rivers - a network of which ist destined to define the golf course of the Five Sisters.

Here's the fun bit: I have not a clue about how to achieve this. Honestly, no idea. A lot more dead kittens in my future.

There's also an ancient local legend about five sisters, but I'll tell you more about it as soon as I imagined it. Have a look this now:

 

 

That's the intended height map (dark is low, bright is high). The Five Sisters will be an Alpine golf course. A harsh, claustrophobic and hostile golf course, not one of those namby-pamby quasi-alpine things, but one carved out from the living rock with bare fingers by a sullen and reclusive populace of hard-minded mountain dwellers. Okay, Blammocorp! may have provided them with excavators and all the machinery required, but still... it will be a rough place, surrounded by towering rocks and barren alpine meadows, with some pine tree groves ducking away in the lower half of the course.

And of course each of the five sisters will receive her own little monument at the appropriate spot.

 

But all that's some time in the future. Right now I'm getting Karen ready (almost there) and next I will return to Willow Heath and add the final, final touches to it. Not sure if after that I'll proceed with Oasis Lodge or the Five Sisters. We'll see...

[NoPutt]

Nice cover for a secret mining operation by Blammocorp!

And supplying the locals with training and equipment will

certainly avoid any legal and union entanglements. The coming

backstory which will surely include a Yeti should keep any

prying eyes away from the operation. I'll keep the secret,

but if you think I believe the 5 Sisters are rivers you are mistaken.

Please send 2 of the sisters to the Dry Gulch Saloon in

exchange for my silence. Excellent Layout...wink...wink.

[Kablammo11]

You haven't even scratched the surface, Neal. The evil scheme is much, much more dastardly. All elements are already in place and nothing can stop us now! 

In the meantime, enjoy these diabolically misleading mood images about the look and feel of the Five Sisters:

 

 

 

 

 

Jeeze Louise! I feel slightly queasy... How the Dickens am I going to create that? Can I still switch to another project? But soft.... no, I WANT THIS! I might not get it, most likely, but I want it!

[NoPutt]

Your vertigo inducing, quiet pastoral scenes, are 

a genius marketing ploy to attract foolhardy investors

that believe a magnificent golfing adventure will

make them paltry millions in tourist trade, while

Blammocorp! extracts Billions from behind the

waterfalls. Your secret is safe as long as those

2 sisters arrive safely on the noon stage...wink...wink.

[Kablammo11]

What would you want to do with a place called Wet Gulsh? The sisters (or their tears, according to the legend), are the genuine alpine brooks. And Blammocorp! never attracts investors, it's not listed. You think you can see through the tapestry of deceptions? Sir, you do not. Except for the genius marketing ploy, you saw that.

[NoPutt]

Spews coffee on keyboard, Thanks.

We now return you to the introduction of the "Five Sisters",

which is nothing more than an alpine golfing destination

for the whole family to enjoy...wink...wink.

[NoPutt]

After finishing up Dry Gulch Golf Club I'll

be moving to the lush surroundings of

the Chattahoochee River. There are wild rapids,

but this course, (unnamed at this time), will be in smoother calmer waters.

Like K11, I'll be trying to add something I've never tried

or even know if it's possible, but what the heck, I'm

going for it.

 

[TimBoch]

Neal, what 3D program is that? I have been using a very old version of 3DsMax I have used since my Links days. If there is something easier, it would be nice to give it a go. Is this what you used to animate the windmill? I have always wanted to do that with a fan I made for Dwan that they use to keep a green drier. Also, could be a lot of fun for so many things on Infamous Golf Holes, if I can ever figure out how to make even the course and all its overhanging greens work.

[NoPutt]

It's AC3D (AC3D.com) , there is a free trial, but I liked it so much

I purchased it, around $30.00, and they throw in updates now and then.

The windmill was designed in AC3D and animated in Blender, which is Free.

Blender supports most any file from any program, so it's just a matter of

what your comfortable designing with. You can also design and animate in Blender

once you get comfortable with the tools. 

[Trath]

Very ambitious K11, good luck pushing the boundaries. Managing one women is challenging, 5 sisters sounds like madness  . I stand ready to provide moral support.  I hope that PP wont stop the release of at least a few new courses in the near future. 

 

I know its a lot of work, but to grab the attention of gamers in 2016, the game really needs some shop stopper courses, and looking at the Unity 5 demos, it seems the engine can produce some beautiful environments. I really think designers should be given the opportunity to design courses for more powerful machines.

 

It is my belief, looking at the computer hardware coming out next year, that we will get a substantial leap in performance. DX12 + 14 nm graphics cards + mainstream adoption of 1440p + monitors etc ... PG with Unity can keep pace if given the chance.

[Kablammo11]

Very ambitious K11, good luck pushing the boundaries. Managing one women is challenging, 5 sisters sounds like madness  . I stand ready to provide moral support.  

Nice offer, but no. A woman can't be managed. But she always can be adored. It will be my pleasure to not manage the five sisters and instead let them manage me. 

 

I hope that PP wont stop the release of at least a few new courses in the near future. 

I think they should do that - but what with the current (endless, painfully circular and rather pointless) debate about the pricing model (including some unsavoury extrovert soul-searching and the frequent repetition of already made and rightfully ignored reasonings), that window may well be closed now. 

 

I know its a lot of work, but to grab the attention of gamers in 2016,

Sorry, but screw the attention of gamers in 2016. Really. Could not care less. Wouldn't want to grab that lot with anything - for some odd reason, in my world view, computer golf players are not gamers.

 

 

the game really needs some shop stopper courses, and looking at the Unity 5 demos, it seems the engine can produce some beautiful environments.

Every golf game could do with show(?) stopper courses. And the demos of any bit of software always look gorgeous. To me, a show stopper course is not defined by technology, btw, or by brute graphics potency, but by atmosphere and imagination. And it certainly can't be created on demand - the magic behind such a thing is volatile and uncontrollable.

 

 

I really think designers should be given the opportunity to design courses for more powerful machines.

By whom? If they want to, they can already now - nobody is stopping them. 

 

 

It is my belief, looking at the computer hardware coming out next year, that we will get a substantial leap in performance. DX12 + 14 nm graphics cards + mainstream adoption of 1440p + monitors etc ... PG with Unity can keep pace if given the chance.

Operating from a Mac platform, some of these goodies might not be for me. PG will keep pace, as usually with a bit of delay, since things have to be adapted to new techs. PP will not be at the vanguard of the early adopters (human sacrifices voluntarily willing to stomp onto a minefield and be blown away), but I suppose they will follow suit in their own time. There's no rush, we all know our Aesop and it ain't the quick hare that wins the race.