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Post by justamush on Jan 23, 2015 8:09:58 GMT -5
How does everybody plan their layout when creating a course? Do you design one hole at a time, or do you roughly sketch out the entire course before working on individual holes?
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Post by drivert on Jan 23, 2015 8:56:14 GMT -5
I like to layout at least 9 at a time. They are subject to change from there
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Post by reebdoog on Jan 23, 2015 9:24:52 GMT -5
one at a time for me. The other option I've use is just looking for good green locations and kind of planning around them a little...but even then only maybe 3 at a time. Whenever I have tried to "layout" a course and plan it on paper or anything I end up forcing the holes in...I don't think that looks right or feels right. I let the land decide it.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2015 9:44:57 GMT -5
I suck, but I will use the land, layout my first par 4, delete the fairway, rough and shrink the green and tee, do the tee, the green, bunkers, then the fairway, then the eye candy. Look for a good tee area near the green and lay the next hole in close line with the first. I'm currently liking this method of running the holes in the same or opposite compass direction as trees and lighting is easy to adjust with this method. I like trees though, I like lots of them, however I'm obviously alone as my courses rarely ever get played, end up on the shelf's and relegated to complete obscurity. So I wouldn't do what I do, I shouldn't do what I do, but I do what I do. I think I'm done with designing. Time will tell, but it does seem like a complete waste of time, time is much better spent practicing. Designing is better left to the designers I suppose, it's a tough nut to crack.
I have the taste contest course re-done ready to be released with new tees, less trees, wider fairways, new stuff, deleted stuff etc, I will complete and perfect Monarch Montreal (my Baby), I might finish a desert course I have in the designer, I might get enough objects deleted to publish another that is completed, then I'm finished with it for good. But I digress.
Ok last tip, no buildings or objects except maybe for the club house, trees, plants, grass is ok, and do not touch the multiplant tool, they cause the lag that consoles are seeing.
Have fun, designing can be a nice time waster.
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Post by justamush on Jan 23, 2015 10:58:39 GMT -5
Thank you everyone for your ideas. I have dabbled in the course creator, but I haven't come up with anything that I am happy with. I have started reading the various tips that I have seen here and I hope to start working on something soon.
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