Need suggestions for golfcourse

bravilor

Hello SU-users,

I'm planning on making a 18 hole golfcourse with a visitorcentre in the middle of it in SU, but before I start I could use some advice.
My plan is to create the terrain using the sandbox tool and then add the tee's, greens, bunkers excetera, but I think I will run into the folowing problem:

When I 'smooth' the terrain it will be very difficult (if not impossible) to create the hole's, greens and stuff on the terrain-surface, to push/pull and create a different material on them, because the terrain obviously isn't 'flat'...

Does anyone have any advice/experience on how to do this? Like is it somehow possible to make the golfcourses including greens, bunkers exct. on a flat terrain and add height differences in the terrain afterwards?

Thanks in advance!

Gaieus

Bravilor,

The two things - having a varied terrain andtees, different other elements - do not necessarily cause a big problem

I guess you would start with a "flat", x/y plan anyway and adjust the terrain to it (or you already have a terrain).

Now what you need is the drape tool; you can practically "project" all your 2D plan (the lines) onto the terrain, From then on, you can of course paint the different surfaces individually as well as "cut holes" for the tees (actually they should not simply be push/pulled for they will not necessarily be on a horizontal face - you'd rather insert those holes as little groups and then explode > intersect with model > delete unneeded geometry).

For the complex in the middle, the drape tool will not be "enough" - you may wish to use the stamp tool to create a nice, flat construction site for your buildings. Most probably the roads should also be stamped into the terrain.

If you don't mind, I'll move your topic to the SketchUp Forum for the "Tutorials" are meant to be a place for ready, finished tuts (as well as more people are probable to contribute with ideas there).

Cheers

bravilor

Thanks Gaieus!

Some quick testing with the drape and stamp tool looks promissing
I'll post some pics when i'm happy with the results (someday, could be weeks, could be months )

Maybe another newbie-question, but does the 'drape-tool' also work on non-sandbox-surfaces? If so it would be very usefull to create faces on curved walls, roofs, exct...

Thanks again and sorry for posting in the wrong section

Gaieus

@unknownuser said:

does the 'drape-tool' also work on non-sandbox-surfaces?

Only on triangulated surfaces. SU (natively) creates "simple" curved walls with parallely edged, coplanar rectangles - so the answer is no.

Most of the other 3D programmes though make up every face of triangles so that can work. Some plugins (like the "Bezier Patch" or the "Soap Skin and Bubble") also make triangulated surfaces so the sandbox tools must work on them, too.