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Post by tracland on May 8, 2021 11:04:12 GMT -5
I’ve been away from here for a while. Looks like there have been a load of amazing uploads to the contest. Time to start playing some of these.
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Post by tracland on May 8, 2021 11:31:23 GMT -5
[]I watched him play mine. He liked my planting, the golf it didn't seem as though he enjoyed all that much. He mentioned bunkers, which are really hard for me-I just can't seem to get the hang of making decent bunkers. Though, what I don't know exactly is did he mean the shape, sculpting, or placement of said bunkers. Perhaps all 3 lol As the last person to comment I picked yours for my first play. First thing to say is the planting is great. I can really appreciate the amount of hours that must have taken to do. Really enjoyable loop. I’m going to comment on bunkers as you mentioned them. I find bunkers really hard to get anywhere close to right (usually I fail). I’m also not really experienced enough to comment so please feel free to disregard anything I say. I appreciate we had minimal elevation to work with (which makes it doubly tough) but on the first and second the fairway bunkers felt like they were banked into a slope that only existed for the purpose of banking the bunker. I.e. the slope gave the bunkers a high side and visibility but didn’t look like a slippery that would naturally be there. Some of the green side bunkers (e.g. right of two) had those weird lines in them where the land has been excessively sculpted to the point it starts breaking up on the game. I really struggle with this problem when I try to build deeper bunkers and don’t know what the solution is (other than to raise the bunker base). Someone else probably does. Other (e.g right fairway on 5) are possibly a bit flat. I don’t know, bunkers are really hard. I really really like the way you brought the river through the plot on each hole. With the planting this was a great look. Enjoyed my round. (P.s. though it didn’t really matter, I had an impossible pin on the 6th (tight left on red slope). Loads of good playable green on the hole so assuming somethings gone wrong moving a waypoint or similar.) |
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aboothe22
Caddy
Posts: 36
TGCT Name: Andy Boothe
Tour: Challenge Circuit
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Post by aboothe22 on May 8, 2021 21:15:57 GMT -5
[]I watched him play mine. He liked my planting, the golf it didn't seem as though he enjoyed all that much. He mentioned bunkers, which are really hard for me-I just can't seem to get the hang of making decent bunkers. Though, what I don't know exactly is did he mean the shape, sculpting, or placement of said bunkers. Perhaps all 3 lol As the last person to comment I picked yours for my first play. First thing to say is the planting is great. I can really appreciate the amount of hours that must have taken to do. Really enjoyable loop. I’m going to comment on bunkers as you mentioned them. I find bunkers really hard to get anywhere close to right (usually I fail). I’m also not really experienced enough to comment so please feel free to disregard anything I say. I appreciate we had minimal elevation to work with (which makes it doubly tough) but on the first and second the fairway bunkers felt like they were banked into a slope that only existed for the purpose of banking the bunker. I.e. the slope gave the bunkers a high side and visibility but didn’t look like a slippery that would naturally be there. Some of the green side bunkers (e.g. right of two) had those weird lines in them where the land has been excessively sculpted to the point it starts breaking up on the game. I really struggle with this problem when I try to build deeper bunkers and don’t know what the solution is (other than to raise the bunker base). Someone else probably does. Other (e.g right fairway on 5) are possibly a bit flat. I don’t know, bunkers are really hard. I really really like the way you brought the river through the plot on each hole. With the planting this was a great look. Enjoyed my round. (P.s. though it didn’t really matter, I had an impossible pin on the 6th (tight left on red slope). Loads of good playable green on the hole so assuming somethings gone wrong moving a waypoint or similar.) That makes sense. I probably made a bit of a mistake by not raising the land just a little bit more from the water plane. I started with a huge water plane, and just raised the land around it to form the creek/river/whatever it is lol. As a result, on several bunkers when I laid them down I'd have to raise just a bit to get them to show up, just because of the way the game "auto-sculpts" them a bit got too low and the bunker as I drew it didn't exist (hit the water plane). Also, I'd go to sculpt the ones that were laid down and I'd have that happen on occasion as well. It was a pain, for sure. I definitely did have to build up for bunker visibility some, and that's been an issue that I've had with courses in the past too. It's something that I know I still really need to get better at. I do really like the theme that I've created though, and look forward to taking feedback and trying to expand it to 18. I'll definitely have to pare down the planting somewhat to do that though-I think I hit about 60% meter on the 6 holes, though a lot of that I think is in the surrounding "woods", that I can get rid of/thin out. I appreciate the feedback, and any more that anyone has. I'm just trying to continue to get better, that's my whole goal in this. I can tell that I have, just by going back and playing my first course or two. I've got 3 published (all approved) though the first and second were closer to not approved than tour worthy for sure. The third, I think I made some good strides but I just ran out of meter so it's underplanted. |
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Post by mvpmanatee on May 9, 2021 12:11:44 GMT -5
Whoops - Yeah my VODs are all muted since we play music. I should have probably done a better job with that lol
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Post by cd06 on May 9, 2021 12:34:35 GMT -5
Whoops - Yeah my VODs are all muted since we play music. I should have probably done a better job with that lol In Ben's stream last night the royalty free playlist started playing a lullaby... no wonder the VODs get muted when the alternatives are as odd as that  |
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theboldb
Weekend Golfer
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Tour: Beer League/TST
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Post by theboldb on May 9, 2021 13:11:12 GMT -5
Just saw Ameobi's review of my DL entry. When I completed it I was quite pleased with it, but I clearly missed the mark on most holes after all!
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Post by trailducker on May 9, 2021 13:20:00 GMT -5
Just saw Ameobi's review of my DL entry. When I completed it I was quite pleased with it, but I clearly missed the mark on most holes after all! He just wanted to get off mine as soon as possible with all the templates and water all over  |
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Post by trailducker on May 9, 2021 17:23:40 GMT -5
Thursday was the first run through of 13 of them. Then he’ll do Tuesday and probably a last few on Thursday this week of Ameobi’s
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theboldb
Weekend Golfer
Posts: 143
Tour: Beer League/TST
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Post by theboldb on May 9, 2021 17:42:57 GMT -5
Just saw Ameobi's review of my DL entry. When I completed it I was quite pleased with it, but I clearly missed the mark on most holes after all! He just wanted to get off mine as soon as possible with all the templates and water all over Haha yes. He does love templates. |
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Post by coursedesignHQ on May 10, 2021 13:22:35 GMT -5
Just realized I wont be around for Ameobis playthrough of my DL course tomorrow...  |
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Post by mattyfromcanada on May 11, 2021 13:14:34 GMT -5
Contest 3 is live! Check the new thread!
Judging has started, and will hopefully wrap up in a week to a week and a half.
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Post by trailducker on May 11, 2021 14:08:54 GMT -5
Is the goal to pick hole designs and routing to NOT do any sculpting for sightlines or are microsculpting adjustments in the fairway acceptable?
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Post by virtualgolfer65 on May 11, 2021 14:09:50 GMT -5
Contest 3 is live! Check the new thread! Judging has started, and will hopefully wrap up in a week to a week and a half. Beautiful as I wouldn't know what to do with the extra time after some judging, creating, etc. Now I can go to work and go home to eat a TV dinner and design all night, wake up and repeat! |
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Post by mattyfromcanada on May 11, 2021 14:16:49 GMT -5
Is the goal to pick hole designs and routing to NOT do any sculpting for sightlines or are microsculpting adjustments in the fairway acceptable? Micro-sculpting would be fine. And if you are making greensites etc obviously some little tweaks would need to be made. |
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Post by tracland on May 11, 2021 16:00:45 GMT -5
I remember from design league 1 that there were some really good play through videos uploaded to the thread. I think these were by the ever excellent b101 Is something similar being done for contest 2 as I really learned from the contest 1 playthroughs and would love to get feedback on my course for this contest. |
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