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Post by csugolfer60 on Mar 29, 2024 8:31:01 GMT -5
Dear Prospective Member - Welcome to the Shorevale Athletic Club! It is our pleasure to host you for day of golf and a grand tour of our grounds - and to give you the chance to be one of the first buyers of our premium home sites. Our championship golf course measures 7,250 yards from the back tees - but offers 4 tee options for players of all abilities. Challenging, but playable and enjoyable for all golfers. Our tennis club offers 8 "hard" courts, accompanied by our tennis clubhouse.
Had a great time designing in this contest - Thanks to PithyDoctorG for designing the plot, to scottish67 and the team for helping me get this thing finished, and to b101 for running this great contest!
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Post by trailducker on Mar 29, 2024 21:24:58 GMT -5
Welcome Back! I have been itching to see another course on this plot. I am very impressed how well you got the greens to work with this game's dynamic having not published this game yet but the greens are tough but fair and a blast to try and tackle. My initial routing had a lot of similarities to yours but kind of went a very different direction ultimately how you completed it. I also initially thought of the ravines as a much more vibrant and colorful section of the course and more mellow up top, but playing your more dried out ravines worked really well as well. Made me consider if I should make a more dried out version for a different season on mine for fun haha.
Awesome job!
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Post by csugolfer60 on Mar 29, 2024 21:31:33 GMT -5
Welcome Back! I have been itching to see another course on this plot. I am very impressed how well you got the greens to work with this game's dynamic having not published this game yet but the greens are tough but fair and a blast to try and tackle. My initial routing had a lot of similarities to yours but kind of went a very different direction ultimately how you completed it. I also initially thought of the ravines as a much more vibrant and colorful section of the course and more mellow up top, but playing your more dried out ravines worked really well as well. Made me consider if I should make a more dried out version for a different season on mine for fun haha. Awesome job! Thanks! Great to be back - Unfortunately, I had to make a lot of concessions in the end product due to the Unity engine limitations - - Originally, I had a lot more colorful bushes and grasses mixed in with the yellowish, dried grass - but it took too much of the object meter, and the yellowish grass is the only one that shows up from a longer distance away, so it had to stay while some of the other, more colorful stuff got nixed. - I had to move a couple of those "unmovable" boundary roads, because to make the boundary realistic with the extremely limited object memory left, I had to bring them closer to the edge of the course. - I think I misunderstood the "contiguous" thing after listening to a bit of Pithy's stream. I thought we just needed to make sure there were no "disconnected" sections of either housing or golf course, so I made sure to have roads going into the housing sections, and the golf course is all one continuous boundary as well. Hope I don't get scottish67 in trouble . But this plot was great because the ravine kinda had a natural highlight to it, so it was fun to find different holes that routed around it. I'm a Pete Dye fanatic, so tried to bring some Pete Dye into this one, along with some of the Ross-ish bunkering style as well. They tend to blend well together, with the Dye pot bunkers going right where you want to hit your tee shots without thinking a lot of the time, and the Ross-style bunkers good for lining edges of fairways and greens. I used to design courses for TGC and 2k21 to be challenging in "video game golf", which is alot different than "real golf", but for this one, I wanted to make it a bit more realistic (although not easy). So it's good to hear they are more manageable, even with the faster green speeds. ( I haven't had a chance to go and look at any other courses made yet, but I'll take a look at yours first to compare .
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Post by sandgroper on Apr 4, 2024 21:58:18 GMT -5
A thinking mans course with a touch of Matisse. Loved the lighting/planting combination, it really popped. Oh, and the golf is top notch as well.
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