OAKLEIGH DUNES

[zutroy]

Just played this one. Had some thoughts about how it does evoke strong feelings of the sandbelt throughout.

- Firm and fast conditions baby!
- The long grasses around the bunkers very suited to the region.
- Bunker shaping was bang on and crisp edges were mint.
- The contrasting tone of the fringe grass is straight out of Royal Melbourne.
- Minor but impactful changes in elevation are very accurate.

Couple of things that weren’t quite 100% suited to my eye.
- Fairways were extremely narrow in places. Makes sense for a video game where it’s so easy to drive the ball, but not a great reflection of the open spaces on the sandbelt.
- Felt a little over bunkered in places with maybe too much sandy waste as well.
- A couple of greens were almost impossible to keep a downhill putt on the green of missing the front pin.

I need a tutorial on:
- Crisp, roughless, bunker edges. They look superb.
- How to create the fringe areas with the terrain grid on them.

Overall I loved it and will definitely play again.

[golfwolfuk]

Glad you enjoyed bud.. in fairness to gamesdecent the layout was submitted for the major design comp where testing the very best players is the main goal hence the difficult shots.

[gamesdecent]

Oct 13, 2020 5:52:32 GMT -5 zutroy said:

Just played this one. Had some thoughts about how it does evoke strong feelings of the sandbelt throughout.

- Firm and fast conditions baby!
- The long grasses around the bunkers very suited to the region.
- Bunker shaping was bang on and crisp edges were mint.
- The contrasting tone of the fringe grass is straight out of Royal Melbourne.
- Minor but impactful changes in elevation are very accurate.

Couple of things that weren’t quite 100% suited to my eye.
- Fairways were extremely narrow in places. Makes sense for a video game where it’s so easy to drive the ball, but not a great reflection of the open spaces on the sandbelt.
- Felt a little over bunkered in places with maybe too much sandy waste as well.
- A couple of greens were almost impossible to keep a downhill putt on the green of missing the front pin.

I need a tutorial on:
- Crisp, roughless, bunker edges. They look superb.
- How to create the fringe areas with the terrain grid on them.

Overall I loved it and will definitely play again.

Glad you enjoyed.  Yes, this was designed for the Major Contest last year (originally released as Tosatsuyagi Park) and I re-did a few holes and added the waste areas and then golfwolf re-planted the whole thing.  The idea that certain pins have to be approached from a certain direction and missing below the hole is very much intentional, so having it play tough without feeling tricked up was always at the front of my mind.

The bunkers are all done with splines so there's no rough strip around them except where I wanted there to be.  This is one of the things that triggered a lot of people as it used to be a "design rule" that bunkers can only be surrounded by one type of surface, which is absurd.

Not sure who discovered the fringe trick, but it's not my idea.  All you do is make your fringe as wide as it will go in the Green Settings menu, then a spline about 3.0 yards wide around the green that isn't filled in will give you a new strip of fringe with no green surface.  So most of the greens are just circled a couple of times with a spline of fringe.

[ryanmcconnell]

[zutroy]

Oct 13, 2020 7:41:31 GMT -5 gamesdecent said:

The bunkers are all done with splines so there's no rough strip around them except where I wanted there to be.  This is one of the things that triggered a lot of people as it used to be a "design rule" that bunkers can only be surrounded by one type of surface, which is absurd.

Not sure who discovered the fringe trick, but it's not my idea.  All you do is make your fringe as wide as it will go in the Green Settings menu, then a spline about 3.0 yards wide around the green that isn't filled in will give you a new strip of fringe with no green surface.  So most of the greens are just circled a couple of times with a spline of fringe.

Thanks very much for the tips. Can’t wait to start trying them out.

Oh and that is the most ridiculous rule I’ve ever heard. Why on earth would anyone be opposed to bunkers cut partially into rough and partially into the short grass?

[cd06]

Love that fringe trick. Works so well. Great bunkers, planting and strategy - superb course!