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Post by bruce on Mar 31, 2020 11:20:29 GMT -5
I'm still very new to Course design, but I'm noticing quite a few holes have what I like to call the tunnel effect. There are literally so many trees lining the fairways, the holes look more like tunnels than actual golf holes. Is this just an effect that looks more pronounced on a PC screen, or are they supposed to look like that ? Or is it maybe because the designers are trying to make the holes harder but putting in more trees? I can see using them to line the outside of a course for an isolation effect but not between each hole.
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Post by lessthanbread on Mar 31, 2020 13:26:00 GMT -5
I guess it depends what you’ve grown accustomed to. For me, the area I’ve lived my whole life has most courses with heavy tree cover in between holes. There are many great treeless courses in TGC though. Ardoilean is one of my favorites in the whole game, I believe Canuck’s course Avery doesn’t have any trees in between holes. There are definitely many others. Just comes down to preference and the feel the designer is going for
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Post by csugolfer60 on Mar 31, 2020 17:24:38 GMT -5
Bruce, one unfortunate thing about TGC2019 is that the FOV is set extremely wide - something like 42 degrees. For a golf game, this makes holes seems extremely tight compared to what you perceive outside IRL. If you change the FOV on PC by going to the camera menu (F10), you will notice that it looks a lot more like what you would perceive IRL, and makes the holes look a lot less tunnely
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Post by bruce on Mar 31, 2020 19:04:58 GMT -5
Now theirs something I had no idea about. What should the FOV be set to ?
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Post by linkslover on Apr 1, 2020 4:02:53 GMT -5
Some holes are like this in real life anyway. On courses in my region, the 6th, 15th and 16th holes are of this nature at Newcastle-under-Lyme Golf Club while almost the entire course at Swindon Golf Club near Wolverhampton have tree lined fairways. They aren't common, but they do exist.
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Post by b101 on Apr 2, 2020 14:20:16 GMT -5
There’s a secondary reason, which is that empty space just doesn’t work too well in this game in the way that a big view over fields works beautifully in real life. Often, tunnelling the vision on the tee can be used as a way of blocking out that empty space and focusing your eye on the tee shot you’re about to play.
For those moving beyond that, you often see staggered areas of planting at different distances to draw your eye, but that’s the basic reasoning in a number of cases.
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