Latest Rugged Dune information and screenshots
Work continues on Rugged Dune.
I originally thought I would have the course in alpha testing weeks ago but every time I thought it was ready I thought of something else I wanted to put into the course! The main delay has been the planting. Every bush on the course has been hand planted (not forrested). It's the only way to get the dunes looking the way I wanted them to look and to be honest hand planting is what I do on all my courses. The big difference this time has been the huge volume of bushes grasses etc that have been planted and I'm still not finished!! When all the bushes are in there I'll start forresting the main grasses before finishing up by hand again.
Textures are still not final as I have a little too much "tiling" effect in them at the moment but the overall colour scheme I'm quite happy with. The course will also have custom sound effects to complete the feeling of actually being there.
Enough yapping! Here are a couple of screenshots from apcd showing 3 different green complexes. If you look closely you will see the subtle and not so subtle breaks and rolls on the green and surrounds. They work very well on fast/firm green settings and also with the new links modification being tested by APCD-COURSES.com. It means that although the greens are rolling and difficult to read you won't find any pins at Rugged Dune halfway up a tier or on very sloping ground as I think that's just very unfair and unrealistic.
The pics............
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