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This course is based on the Olympic Golf Club in San Francisco - the terrain is taken from LiDAR scans of the course (from plane, not satellite), sampling the elevation every 3 - 4 feet.
Trees, bushes and textures are those that have been supplied with CourseForge. Actually the bushes are huge trees buried in the ground so only the crowns show.
The area beyond the course at the moment consists of a 360° panorama and another 8 very low resolution height-mapped terrains surrounding the main hi-res terrain as shown below, where A1 is the main terrain and B's are the surrounding.
I'm also considering even lower resolution C terrains as well--I think performance will be fine as to my knowledge, Unity loads in terrains as needed. My idea (at the stage) is to keep the main terrain very tight to the course to maximize its resolution, yet still be able to have the near surrounds move in true 3d during hole fly-bys or ball-cam shots. Plus I suspect it will be hard to match up a panorama with the course where trees aren't blocking the join.
The panorama I created from joining screenshots from Google Earth from the region together into a 360° panorama, then converting it to the cubic map system Unity uses. The orientation on the above screenshots isn't what you'll find on the course, plus you don't see as much of the landscape, but I haven't decided whether to replicate Olympic or derive from it yet (and improve on nature!).
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One thing I've been doing which hopefully TerrainForge will support in the future is bringing the LiDAR data into Unity with tree elevations (the mounds below), making it easy to scale trees to their real approximate heights. Then I bring in the elevation data without the trees for my final terrain so I can nudge the trees into position.
Anyway, it's all experimentation--I'll probably find the multiple terrains aren't worth the trouble. The good news is that the potential with this suite is amazing. Sadly there just isn't enough time in the day.
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