Getting Started

Before you start building courses, you’ll need a few of different tools installed on your machine to create courses for OpenGolfSim. We recommend grabbing and setting up all these tools before you start. Don’t worry if you’re not very technical, they are all pretty user friendly.

  1. Getting Started
    1. Download & Install Course Meshery
    2. Download & Install Inkscape
      1. Setup the OGS Color Palette
    3. Course Building Videos

Download & Install Course Meshery

Course Meshery is our all-in-one course building tool created to build and publish your own virtual courses.

Download Course Meshery

Download & Install Inkscape

Inkscape is a free vector graphics editing program. We use it to layout the course using the pen tool to create vector paths that represent features like fairways, greens, tee boxes, etc.

Download Inkscape

Setup the OGS Color Palette

You’ll need the official OGS color palette installed in Inkscape so you can set shapes to the correct color codes.

  1. Open Inkscape

    1. Open the Inkscape Preferences, and select System in the sidebar. Find the entry for User palettes and click the Open button to reveal the folder to add custom palettes to.

  2. Open Meshery:

    1. Under the Tools menu, select Generate Inkscape Palette and save the file to your local machine.

    2. Place the newly created file into the user palettes folder, which can be found via Inkscape under Edit > Preferences > System > User Palettes

Course Building Videos

Check out our playlist of how-to videos for our course building process.

Course Building Videos

Next up: Course Terrain