286 replies to this topic

[StoneComet]

Geez...even my patience is being tried and that is saying something. Course Forge is falling off my radar for now, which is a shame really as I cannot imagine what this rigmarole has done to prospective customers. I feel sorry for the developers and the player base most of all that this could not all be resolved in a timely manner. What a fiasco. 

[jdeedler]

That's too bad.......

[Bahnzo]

Building courses was something I enjoyed in PGA2000 almost as much as playing. It's a shame the course builder here is still delayed. 

[Stoney]

Some Info about whats happening with course forge would be nice.

[Stephen Sullivan]

Some Info about whats happening with course forge would be nice.

What he said 

[Andrew]

Ok, I spoke again with SpeedTree yesterday.  They promised me that we will be receiving the coupons soon.  They have had some other developement priorities the last few weeks and they just have not had the resources to get to this yet.  As soon as we have the coupons we can get everything rolling.

[NoPutt]

Really, Soon, this is a fantastic up to date and precise timeline

of upcoming events and I'm sure that Soon Unity will send

the Speedtree coupons, and Soon after that, things will

get rolling. The Soon we are reading now must be much

closer than the Soon we are accustomed to reading, and even though

it looks the same on the page this Soon must be the Soonest Soon there is,

and couldn't have come any Sooner.

[Stoney]

I take it is still soon then, just seems to me that soon doesnt really mean that soon .

[Stephen Sullivan]

More likely whenever they can be arsed 

[Carl Lapin]

It mean not today

[Richard]

Substitute "coupon" for "sun". 

 

[JBrown247]

I am not sure what "soon" means. I bought this game in April, and there were saying "soon" then with the same "cupon" excuse. So "soon" is obviously longer than 4 months, and now that they said "soon" again, it will be at least another 4 months.

[Richard]

One can't control the actions, or inactions, of others. It will be when it will be and it appears that it's anyone's guess. Constant harping or asking "are we there yet", won't speed it up unfortunately.

[Bob5453]

Why can't CF be released without these coupons? Then just  add the coupons later. 

[nightowl]

Yeah, PP should proceed as though the coupons will never come. Because there's probably a good chance we'll never see those coupons.

[clubcaptain]

Someone asked previously exactly what these coupons are and what their purpose is and i don't remember seeing these things explained. Anyone able to do so now please ?

 

Coupon codes seem to be available all over the internet. Why can't they be used ?

[Crow357]

The coupons will be used to purchase Speedtree assets.

[johnmeyer]

I must admit of all the skill sets that I can see being required to use cf effectively, the requirement to provide free access to "paid for" trees when there are numerous free assets available does seem a strange reason to hold back on this release. I must admit it is a good move to ensure there is sufficient variety of vegetation available, to provide a more complete product, full of stock assets, but having seen the courses that have already been made without these coupons, I truly cannot see it being that much of a deal breaker. Hopefully ST come through soon but if not I'd wholeheartedly suggest an open beta launch without them.

From a sim point of view there will soon be a whole raft of players coming in from outside golf looking at winter sim options. JNPGs only drawback at the minute in general when compared to other options is its limited course library, in particular the real course replications, and also the ability for players to recreate their home course to keep playing over winter. Even a larger CF designer pool than the current ones would help If a full blown release is not something that is wanted to be done

[clubcaptain]

The coupons will be used to purchase Speedtree assets.

So if we use Speedtree using this "free" software will cost us money, albeit at a reduced price ?

[johnmeyer]

Im assuming the coupons will allow what would normally be paid for assets to be downloaded for free. From what I gather the concern was the out of the box there were very limited options in terms of trees etc available, so PP wanted to ensure that there was sufficient stuff bundled with CF to enable the user to design and build a full course "out of the box" as it were. 

 

As I say though, I wouldve though people couldve found trees elsewhere in any case. Ive bulld my home course in unity, including multiple types of trees, club house etc etc all with free assest from the various sites, CG3D, turbosquid etc etc.

 

Yes its taken some work, lots of reading and learning about unity in general, fbx assets, prefabs, textures etc etc All of which I think will be far more of a learning curve than having to think about where to get trees from.