MasterMontgomery wrote: ↑April 13th, 2022, 1:42 am
Thanks Pete i will check those out.
An Braden if you can't add buildings then how do some people
have all those houses?
thanks
guys
Hi MM...
I can speak on this subject. A few years ago I took on a project to see how far I could push the APCD, and I replicated a real course that was laid out through a subdivision in Kansas City MO. The course is "The National Golf Club of Kansas City". It's a real course that was designed by Tom Watson and was completed on 2000. I set out to try and replicate the course with all of the houses and buildings. My thought was, if you can see a building anywhere on the course, I would place a structure on it.
Houses and buildings can be used in 3 formats.
1: Planted 2D buildings
When planted they will rotate to face you as you move around them. These types of buildings can be used when they are off at a distance. So far away that you can't notice the rotation
2: Planted 3D houses and buildings that are provided in the 2 planting sets.
There are 2 versions of planting sets. The best 3D houses can be found in the 2001 planting set. There are 5 or 6 real nice ones that can be re-used in multiple locations. 3D buildings are planted on flat surfaces, and can be rotated to face any direction you want. They can also be stretched or resized in all directions. However, they should be sized so as to measure realistic sizes. If these buildings are used, they can be placed and rotated in such a manner as to make them look different, so you don't notice the repetitiveness so much. The National of KC is the best example I believe you will find. From the top view in Links, the view that you see is actual Google Earth top views. I dropped a 3D house on top of each one. I did my best to try and keep them rotated and separated so you don't notice the repeats.
3: Hand-built 3D buildings is the 3rd type.
These must be built completely by hand out of the existing terrain, or manually created faces and texture. You build the shape of the structure out of verts, and then you apply pictures on the faces that make it look like siding, or windows, or shingles etc. etc. This type of building is the best, but it's very time-consuming and tedious work that can get really frustrating, depending on how detailed you want to make it. These structures MUST BE built on the CRZ you are working on, and CAN NOT be exported or imported in either direction.
If anyone is interested in finding every 3D building that is useful for a course, it can be found on The National Golf Club of Kansas City. Just open it in the Links Extender and export them to your hard drive, and then import them into your own planting set.
Another way to get all of the 3D buildings is to install both planting sets into your APCD.
You can also look at the KC course in the APCD and see how I placed them. You will notice a LOT of hand built 3D structures, such as the clubhouse, bridges, starting shack, tennis courts, snack shack, rest rooms, swimming pools, and other course structures that would be seen as if you were really there. The lake on 9 has a boat dock, with 2 boats. Those boats are hand-made structures. In short, every structure that you see that wasn't planted was hand built.
I threw everything I had into that layout, and I am impressed at how well the APCD handled it. That course was a valuable test of what I have come to learn about how much the APCD will handle. Not only are there near 100 3D buildings scattered all over the plot, but it has a lot of thick tall grasses and trees.
After I completed the National, I did Wakonda Club. It too has a ton of planted 3D buildings surrounding it.
Hope that helped to clarify how we add buildings to our courses.
Cheers,
Dan