Post by paddyjk19 on Oct 19, 2019 3:44:54 GMT -5
This WIP is a good chance to document my process which will hopefully help any new RCR designers on their own personal journey - if it wasn't for such a helpful community I wouldn't have been able to research and learn these methods so I'm trying to contribute where possible.
Work done so far
I traced the course on OSM last week and downloaded the LiDAR available, the most recent was 2008 so not ideal as the course underwent significant bunkering amendments in 2017.
The LiDAR is pretty good and really captures the dramatic bunkering the course has.
This week I went through the course and re-worked some of the tee boxes to ensure they are in the correct place and that all lines are smooth and the areas flat.
On the whole I pretty much re-do every spline for the tee boxes to give it that clean feel, it's time consuming but this is your art after all!
Here's the tee complex for the 6th hole;
I then went through all the bunkering on the course and nudged the splines around to ensure presentation is clean and that the undulations all pair up with the bunker borders. Again a tedious job but it's worth doing.
Here is some of the dramatic bunkering on the 4th and 5th holes;
The work I've got planned this weekend is to smooth out some of the green splines and just tweak a few with the fuzzy blue brush to ensure I can use certain pin positions etc.
I also need to colour in a few areas to signify large areas of trees and grass for planting, you can do some of this on OSM but if you accidently cut off a spline it doesn't port properly so I'm missing some wooded area (all that grey you can see)
What I'll do next is use Chad's tool to remove all the terrain from the course, this is a brilliant tool because you can then plant with a flat course which makes it very quick as the LiDAR terrain takes up a lot of data and slows the designer up no end.
I'll then plant the majority of the large wooded areas before then using Google Earth, Google Images and potentially YouTube videos to plant what I call "significant trees / object", these are really important because they will either block your line on certain shots or they will be key visual indicators that make the course look authentic.
I'll also try to get my fairways looking clean and my initial heavy rough laid down which is a ball ache because the heavy rough can't touch the light rough otherwise it messes up the cut lines and makes you look amateur!
I'll make sure I document this on the next post.
Here's a couple more early pics of the entire plot and of course, Stoke Park's famous clubhouse (well you can see the trace of it, the real thing will come later!)
I've also put a pic of the iconic 7th hole which was apparently Dr. Alistair Mackenzie's inspiration for Augusta's 16th hole although I think it's more like the 12th in my opinion;
Work done so far
I traced the course on OSM last week and downloaded the LiDAR available, the most recent was 2008 so not ideal as the course underwent significant bunkering amendments in 2017.
The LiDAR is pretty good and really captures the dramatic bunkering the course has.
This week I went through the course and re-worked some of the tee boxes to ensure they are in the correct place and that all lines are smooth and the areas flat.
On the whole I pretty much re-do every spline for the tee boxes to give it that clean feel, it's time consuming but this is your art after all!
Here's the tee complex for the 6th hole;
I then went through all the bunkering on the course and nudged the splines around to ensure presentation is clean and that the undulations all pair up with the bunker borders. Again a tedious job but it's worth doing.
Here is some of the dramatic bunkering on the 4th and 5th holes;
The work I've got planned this weekend is to smooth out some of the green splines and just tweak a few with the fuzzy blue brush to ensure I can use certain pin positions etc.
I also need to colour in a few areas to signify large areas of trees and grass for planting, you can do some of this on OSM but if you accidently cut off a spline it doesn't port properly so I'm missing some wooded area (all that grey you can see)
What I'll do next is use Chad's tool to remove all the terrain from the course, this is a brilliant tool because you can then plant with a flat course which makes it very quick as the LiDAR terrain takes up a lot of data and slows the designer up no end.
I'll then plant the majority of the large wooded areas before then using Google Earth, Google Images and potentially YouTube videos to plant what I call "significant trees / object", these are really important because they will either block your line on certain shots or they will be key visual indicators that make the course look authentic.
I'll also try to get my fairways looking clean and my initial heavy rough laid down which is a ball ache because the heavy rough can't touch the light rough otherwise it messes up the cut lines and makes you look amateur!
I'll make sure I document this on the next post.
Here's a couple more early pics of the entire plot and of course, Stoke Park's famous clubhouse (well you can see the trace of it, the real thing will come later!)
I've also put a pic of the iconic 7th hole which was apparently Dr. Alistair Mackenzie's inspiration for Augusta's 16th hole although I think it's more like the 12th in my opinion;