Overview

Great strides have been made recently thanks to help from members of The Course Depot community, most notably CJB. Thanks to these efforts it is now possible to produce very realistic looking panoramas that will help enhance the look of your course theme by following the instructions in the tutorials I have composed.

General Information

A TW2003 panorama consists of 12 individual panels which are each 1024 pixels wide by a possible height of 256, 512 or 1024 pixels. The panels are wrapped together by the Library Creator program to produce a continuous, flowing background image.
The final files you create or modify will ultimately be copied into the Panoramas folder located in your EA SPORTS\EA SPORTS Library Creator directory. They consist of the 12 panels named Pan Segment 01.tga thru Pan Segment 12.tga and the RBK 12 Segment Pan.obj file.
I have spent a solid two weeks time investigating how the panels are placed when the Library Creator compiles a new panorama. There appears to be what I would define as a bug that occurs during this process. The LC auto-fills any gaps between panel segments incorrectly. EX: The left edge of Panel 01 is inserted in between Panels 01 & 02. You will notice that most of the stock panoramas use one image for all 12 panels and therefore the edge problem does not cause any odd gap issues. A stock panorama such as Pebble Beach appears to have been modified using an in-house utility to allow for seamless scenery. However, if you try to simply cut up a full image into 12 pieces and then load up the segments into the Library Creator using the stock RBK file there will be strange looking slivers between any panel segments in which the terrain changes in height or color. I sincerely hope EA/Headgate can address this problem in a patch for the general public. Thankfully I have acquired modified versions of the RBK file that correct the seam problems. There is also a workaround technique explained in the tutorials which will also produce quality results.

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Overview

General Information

A TW2003 panorama consists of 12 individual panels which are each 1024 pixels wide by a possible height of 256, 512 or 1024 pixels. The panels are wrapped together by the Library Creator program to produce a continuous, flowing background image.

The final files you create or modify will ultimately be copied into the Panoramas folder located in your EA SPORTS\EA SPORTS Library Creator directory. They consist of the 12 panels named Pan Segment 01.tga thru Pan Segment 12.tga and the RBK 12 Segment Pan.obj file.