Golf 1.8.0

Version 1.8.0 of the Video Golf game.

• Fix banding in noise shader for drone camera
• Fix crowd being unnecessarily disappointed
• Fix being able to accidentally activate the connect button multiple times
• New Achievement: Big Putts
• New Achievement: Golfin’ Dolphin
• New Achievement: Grand Tour
• New Achievement: Grand Designs
• New stat, number of sand traps hit
• New stat, number of water traps hit
• New Course - Dackel’s Run, Beneslavia
• Increased aim angle on putting courses
• Flag is now raised based on ball proximity as well as camera proximity
• All new tree rendering and updated tree artwork
• Tree quality selectable from options menu, including ‘classic’ trees
• Options menu attempts to deduce connected PS controllers and updates graphics accordingly
• Shadow quality has been added to options menu
• Improved menu performance on macOS
• Lobby now asks to confirm when quitting as host
• Selecting the number of holes to play is now a lobby game rule
• Guests now automatically unready themselves if a host selects an unavailable course in the lobby
• Guests are prevented from readying up in the lobby if the selected course isn’t available
• Updated main menu layout for better access to clubhouse
• New unlockable course creator, available after achieving Grand Tour
• Added console command to enable logging of benchmarks
• Mod Kit:Tree editor now available from console by typing tree_ed
• Mod Kit: Wind colour palette has been added

Downloads on itch.io are built against this release.

Golf 1.7.0

Binaries on itch.io are built against this release.

What's new:

• Fix bystander camera from clipping into the ground
• Fix missing sky box in tutorial
• Fix prevent being able to set CPU players in tutorial
• Winner of the previous hole now gets the honour of first tee (thanks mikekelly for the suggestion)
• Add option of Gimme radius to game rules (thanks to JS for the suggestion)
• New achievement - Hole in one million
• New achievement - Gimme Five
• New achievement - Gimme Ten
• New achievement - Day Job
• Stats for tracking number of gimmies taken
• Stats for tracking time played on a course
• New platinum trophy - for those ‘extra special’ achievements.
• Birds now flee the scrub when hit by a stray ball
• Add crowd reaction to near miss
• Add wandering crowd and animated props
• Add game rule description to lobby menu
• Add newsfeed from itchio
• Added option to display distances in yards/feet (thanks JS for the suggestion)
• Minimap now adjusts zoom to best fit the current hole
• Putting grid transparency now adjustable in the options menu
• Putting courses have a 6 stroke limit instead of 12
• New putting course ‘Terdiman Cliffs’
• New Ball - Rubber Duckie
• Add announcer voice over to billiards games
• Add snooker to the club house
• Mod kit: add exporting paths for props and crowds to follow from Blender
• Mod kit: add exporting Blender speakers as audio sources
• Mod kit: allow storing multiple sets of pin/tee data in Blender file and exporting only selected
• Mod kit: Blender export warns if tee/pin data was missing
• Mod kit: Model converter now supports animated textures

Golf 1.6.0

Binaries on itch.io are built against this tag. In this release:

• New Golf Ball - The Niner
• New Golf Ball - The Pineapple
• New Golf Ball - The Pizza
• New Golf Ball - Chomps
• New Achievement - Practice Makes Perfect
• New Achievement - Soaring
• New Achievement - All of a Twitter
• New stats for time spent on driving range, eagles, birdies and holes in one scored
• New full size course: Grove Bank, Mont Torville
• CPU Controlled players (thanks mikekelly for the suggestion)
• Flag Beacon, optional highlight for distant flags
• Upgraded stroke direction indicator
• Menu carts are no longer driven by ghosts
• Improve shadow map fidelity when putting (fixes shadow flickering)
• Bystander camera activated for remote and CPU controlled players
• Sky camera position updates dynamically with player position
• Animated crowds
• Current course title is now displayed on score board
• Player network quality is shown on the score board
• New 3D skyboxes
• Avatars now fade on driving range to prevent blocking view when aiming
• Billiards direction indicator now animates with power setting
• 9 ball pool now playable in the club house
• Fix billiards lobby mistakenly accepting golf clients (and vice versa)
• Post process settings are now available on options screen
• Flag beacon settings are available on the options screen
• Many small cosmetic adjustments
• Modkit: update hole export script to include PAR values when exporting hole data from Blender
• Modkit: add blender file for 3D skybox models

Golf 1.5.0

Builds available on itch.io are built against this release.
Features:

• Added option to select a single target on the driving range (thanks to mikekelly for the suggestion)
• Tool tips on main menu (thanks to nomorebuttons for the suggestion)
• Updated options menu with mouse settings and graphical effects
• Added Vertex Snapping effect for extra retro feel (enable from the options)
• Added Particle effects for hole in one
• Wind now affects tree models
• Updated course textures
• All new client side interpolation (smoother balls!)
• New game modes: Match Play and Skins
• New Achievement - Join The Club
• New Achievement - Stroke of Genius
• New Achievement - No Match
• New Achievement - Skin of Your Teeth
• New Achievement - Socialiser
• New Achievement - Spots
• New Achievement - Stripes
• New Achievement - Easy Pink
• Achievements are now timestamped
• Clubhouse is unlocked after completing the first 18 holes
• Trophies now have reflection maps
• Added Trophy cabinet to browse achievements in the clubhouse
• Added eightball pool to play in the clubhouse.
• New intro video!
• Removed herobrine

Golf 1.4.1

Bug fix update which fixes the z-ordering of drawables on the options menu.

Golf 1.4.0

The binaries on itch.io are built against this tag.

What's new:

• Fixed incorrect club range when chipping from a bunker
• Improve quality of client-side interpolation to reduce stuttering
• Flags now cast real time shadows
• Backspace and escape now navigate back through main menu
• User settable FOV from options menu
• Performance improvement on lower end machines (reduced unnecessary frustum culling)
• Client notification messages no longer overlap
• Winner trophies display on final leaderboard
• Players can vote to skip summary screen in network games
• Increased range of putter to 7m
• Achievements! Achievement status is viewable from options menu
• New course - Roving Sands, East Nerrington
• Trees move with the wind
• Dynamic clouds which move with the wind
• Modkit includes prop library for blender
• Grass tint, cloud sprites and instanced models can be defined per-course when creating new courses
• Empties can be exported from blender to denote particle system positions

Golf 1.3.0

Release version of VGA Golf 1.3.0, found in the samples/golf directory. Binaries on the itch.io page are built from this commit.

golf-v1.2.0

Release version of VGA Golf 1.2.0, found in the samples/golf directory. Binaries on the itch.io page are built from this commit.