Monteverde Cloud Forest (Fantasy) WIP

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Firstly, and most importantly, I just found out how you can play your unpublished courses. This helps significantly with getting an idea on how the site lines and cutaways will look in live play. For those of you unaware like I was, you can find out how here: How To Play Unpublished Courses

Here are some pics from my practice round with Jon Rahm. Still some significant planting and sculpting yet to do.

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Did some planting last night. Disregard the +15   Really liking the views.

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Hope to release before the weekend. Quickly approaching 100% on the object meter trying to get the dense jungle look.

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A few things:

• Interestingly, 2K will not allow me to use the word "Cloud" in the course name due to it being "vulgar." Odd! 
• I have once again painted myself into a corner with routing issues by not laying out the entire course first. The only thing that makes sense for this course is ending with a Par 3. Not the worst thing in the world. I found a good thread on Twitter discussing some of the best courses that finish with a Par 3, most notably Medinah and Pasatiempo.
• Lighting. Really struggling here. I feel like no matter what I do with clouds, sun orientation, haze, etc, the game play is always brighter than it is in the designer. I worry that once I publish it will be much brighter than the look I am going for which is essentially the end of a rain storm with light peaking through the clouds. 

Will be posting tonight after a last double-check of the playability of the greens.