Tobacco Road Golf Course
Posted: January 15th, 2023, 1:34 am
I did a hi-res terrain import for Tobacco Road GC over the holidays for a designer request but it looks like it won't see any attention now. So I defined the tees and greens for the terrain and mapped 4 Google Earth textures to cover the course plot. The course is in a primitive state but it is playable in game. This is an interesting layout, one which I would not believe actually exists!
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing
The best available LIDAR was from 2015 from the North Carolina spacial data website. It was not a standard USGS 1 meter DEM, it had pixel sizes of 3.125 feet. I did a grid of 6.25 ft with elevations precise to 0.01 feet and the APCD handled the import exactly. It was the first terrain import I did that had decimal feet for X and Y coordinates so that was very encouraging for the import process. There are 447,000 verts for the terrain. The Google Earth overlay was from 2015. There have been changes to the tees since then but the course looks to be the same now as in 2015.
Some from this community have played this course in real life so I am looking for feed back on if the LIDAR terrain import process produces accurate results. Hopefully someone takes an interest in this course to finish it for this incredible game!
I have a bunch of course terrain imports on my computer now. If there is serious interest in trying one of these, or any another course, in APCD just give me a shout. The terrain import process doesn't take a lot of time but finishing the course in APCD still takes a lot of work.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing
The best available LIDAR was from 2015 from the North Carolina spacial data website. It was not a standard USGS 1 meter DEM, it had pixel sizes of 3.125 feet. I did a grid of 6.25 ft with elevations precise to 0.01 feet and the APCD handled the import exactly. It was the first terrain import I did that had decimal feet for X and Y coordinates so that was very encouraging for the import process. There are 447,000 verts for the terrain. The Google Earth overlay was from 2015. There have been changes to the tees since then but the course looks to be the same now as in 2015.
Some from this community have played this course in real life so I am looking for feed back on if the LIDAR terrain import process produces accurate results. Hopefully someone takes an interest in this course to finish it for this incredible game!
I have a bunch of course terrain imports on my computer now. If there is serious interest in trying one of these, or any another course, in APCD just give me a shout. The terrain import process doesn't take a lot of time but finishing the course in APCD still takes a lot of work.