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[axe360]

Thanks for sticking with and fixing the tree wiggles on WH K11.. Also the sparkly lights are gone..

[Kablammo11]

yvw, pal. 

[Kablammo11]

And thanks everybody for not asking what I'm up to now, but I'm going to tell you anyway, because I'm a passive-aggressive wretch that can't help himself, despite the risqué innuendos of some and the cynical prejudices being directed at the haven of decency that is Blammocorp!

 

Time to bring in the water. Phase 1: Preparing the main river. The finished river will be narrower than in this image, the terrain will be raised and brought in to tighten it. Plus adding rocks, grasses, crinkling the waterline, the whole gamut of riparian embillshment.

 

 

You can't see it now in the images, but the waves are rushing downhill quite speedily, leaving the onlooker with no doubt where above and below are situated.

Easy to see where the river is planned to jump down a step. I have all sorts of tricks up my sleeve to add the elements required later: A short strip of perpendicular river plane with extra shininess, the waterfall particle effect, even some splash and mist and foam particle effects that can be used to increase the whitewater appearance of the base river.

 

[NoPutt]

" haven of decency that is Blammocorp"

You are correct that the Blammocorp image

is untarnished. To avoid any repercussions

from the Legal Compliance Department headed

by Mr.Payin Theas and assisted by Mr. Hugh G. Rection

I will henceforth refrain from besmirching the good name

of Blammocorp.

The FX waterfall prefab seems to work great for wide

and high falls, and the small steps pictured. Any suggestions

for scaling it down to fit my sluice and waterwheel? Height is

not the problem, but width doesn't seem to change. I did see a

5.2.2. Unity version but I have no idea if it has a width adjustment.

Looking Good K, should be a cold Blast to play.

[Kablammo11]

 

The FX waterfall prefab seems to work great for wide and high falls, and the small steps pictured. Any suggestions for scaling it down to fit my sluice and waterwheel? Height is not the problem, but width doesn't seem to change. 

 

 

Neal, I forwarded your question to the Blammocorp! resident hydrologist, our very own Mr. Jack Goff, who is well versed in all matters of erupting and/or splashing liquids. 

He asked me to salute you cordially, then to direct your attention to the Ellipsoid Particle Emitter of your FX WaterfallBigFoam module - to be brought up in the inspector - and there to focus very, very hard on the final setting called "Min Emitter Range".

 

 

This setting, Jack Goff blurted out, is set to 0 by default. Turning it into a + value makes the cascade emitter broader, making it a negative value causes it to narrow it's width. By fiddling with the "Size Grow" setting in the Particle Animator below, you can taper the overall aspect of your cascade so that it is narrower or larger at it's bottom.

The same, he shouted, already rushing away to declutter a blocked pipe, applies to the 3 other FX prefabs that can also be made tighter or more agape in the same manner.

[NoPutt]

An explosive spurting Thanks to Mr. Jack Goff

and his hands on approach to all things fluid.

I should have looked below the surface before

diving into an unknown pool. 

[Dazmaniac]

Resident Hydrologist Jack Goff.

 

Oh dear, lol.

 

 

I guess we can be thankful he wasn't called Master Bates.

[pingzing]

Ty k2

 

you r 2 good

[M Rose]

Over the Christmas holiday I started another APCD conversion and this one came together super quickly; this course is called The Reservoir and is the first course I ever released for Links. I think Perfect Golf has really done this one justice.

 

 

 

 

Here's a couple of the Links version for comparison; the top one is a little different as I made some changes to the teeing area.

 

 

[M Rose]

And a couple more:

 

 

[highfade]

Just beautiful, love the look of it.

[Acrilix]

You're certainly inspiring me to want to convert all my Links courses to PG!

How much work is needed in Unity on the terrain after import? With my very limited test of Unity a few years ago, I really disliked the sculpting tools in Unity. Just wondering if I could do the sculpting in APCD first, and then import it into Unity to make things easier?

[Stephen Sullivan]

That was one of the things I disliked about Unity as well Acrilix and is one reason I haven't wanted to get back into designing with Course Forge.

[NoPutt]

Still in experimental stage. Next, the sluice

and bottom splash, then on to the course

to build the millhouse. 

[Volker]

Matthew, great looking course with very realistic and beautiful design. Thanks for the pics!

[Kimmer1947]

The Reservoir a la PG....... word that comes to mind.... Wow! 

[M Rose]

I'm finding there are things I like about the sculpting in Unity and things that were better in the APCD..... in Unity it's harder to do a tilt / uniform slope.... you either have to start with little stair steps and smoothing it or you can use the raise brush across the area but you have to do it pretty uniformly or you get a reverse bowl effect. Conversely I find getting multiple flat areas like tiered greens to be easier in Unity because the flatten tools seem to work a little better.

 

There is certainly nothing that says you can't do elevations entirely in the APCD and then import the heightmap if you would rather do it that way.... but there is a lot of smoothing you have to do when you bring it in. You basically have to go over the entire landplot with a smooth brush. Provided you aren't too heavy handed with it, you do end up getting something very close.

[pingzing]

Still in experimental stage. Next, the sluice

and bottom splash, then on to the course

to build the millhouse. 

Very clever Neal, is that done via blender, if so your getting very good at it, suppose its getting some tutorials too 

and learning as you go, must take alot patience

Well done mate

[Acrilix]

There is certainly nothing that says you can't do elevations entirely in the APCD and then import the heightmap if you would rather do it that way.... but there is a lot of smoothing you have to do when you bring it in. You basically have to go over the entire landplot with a smooth brush. Provided you aren't too heavy handed with it, you do end up getting something very close.

 

It sounds like someone definitely needs to write a utility to auto-smooth Links converted terrain as I would imagine that many designers will want to convert these files to PG in the future, and doing it manually sounds like a lot of work.

[Kablammo11]

It sounds like someone definitely needs to write a utility to auto-smooth Links converted terrain as I would imagine that many designers will want to convert these files to PG in the future, and doing it manually sounds like a lot of work.

 

 

...IF 3 minutes with the Unity smooth brush is a lot of work.

Or opening the height map raw in Photoshop or Gimp and applying a Gaussian blur effect.