GOLF - Honey, I Shrunk the Course!

squalled90

I have a great idea! Mine is going to be a mini-MINI golf!

The course starts with things around you relative to player size and then the player ball goes through maybe a hole (down the rabbit hole? maybe a shrinking machine?)

And then suddenly, EVERYTHING IS REALLY BIG! Or...maybe it turns out that YOU ARE VERY SMALL! Think Honey I Shrunk the Kids or The Secret World of Arrietty, which will be pretty big inspirations for this project. It will be tricky to play with scale that way, but it's a challenge I am willing to undertake!

Mangled Poly

you can maybe easily do this by zooming in the camera closer (will take some script tweaks) then having a few key items off the course give the scale to trick perspective

squalled90

So, you mean something like forced perspective?

Mangled Poly

could work

squalled90

Here is some reference I gathered to get a sense of scale. I still haven't decided if I want to make it either indoors, outdoors, or a hybrid of both.

Aerashi

Ah nice! Another awesome movie fan hole Honey I Shrunk the Kids is great and was one of my initial ideas as well.

Don't forget the Pixar Toys movies for nice scale ideas. And busted plastic army men in the dirt!

squalled90

Aerashi wrote: »

Ah nice! Another awesome movie fan hole Honey I Shrunk the Kids is great and was one of my initial ideas as well.

Don't forget the Pixar Toys movies for nice scale ideas. And busted plastic army men in the dirt!

Thanks! Those are great ideas!

squalled90

UPDATE TIME!

I started doing some layout to get a feel of what I'm going to build with my proxy, and then start playing the course, see if it works properly.

Not many props yet, but I'm starting to plan out what to use to both optimize the limited texture usage and also others that could give more of a sense of scale!

AzzaMat

Have you thought about generating two separate courses? One normal sized and another over exaggerated. You could use the teleport function demonstrated in the advanced level to move the ball into the "Shrunk" part of the level.

LANKUS MAXIMUS

Looking cool!

What kind of par are you thinking about setting?

dustykhan

It looks like a par 5 to me :P
Cant wait to start getting a better sense of scale for this this one!

squalled90

I've been thinking about it, and I'm sure this is probably going to be either a par 4 or 5, leaning more towards the 5.

And I have been thinking about generating two courses, but I dunno if I have the time, which is why i decided to have one area that's normal sized and the next area exaggerated. I'm also looking a lot into Pikmin for scale reference.

LANKUS MAXIMUS

Sounds like a good plan squalled.

Very happy to hear that you're gonna use Pikmin for scale reference!

Preston

WOW! this is going to be amazing!

squalled90

Thanks for all the awesome feedback and comments guys! Working on the course proxy atm.

Also, I just realized how great the little patches of plants and grass and also pieces of broken pottery in Pikmin 3 can really help me get that sense of scale I am looking for!

squalled90

Did I hear someone say PROXY UPDAAAATE!? *airhorns go off*

Here's the proxy of what my course will look like. Still don't know if it will be surrounded by either water or terrain. Tomorrow I'm working on bringing this into the engine and taking it for a test drive.

Thanks for all the great feedback!