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Mystic Marsh - v2.0

Welcome to the mystic marsh, an easy-medium course with an eerie ambiance. Will you find your way through those lands haunted with voodoo magic?

• Full easy-medium difficulty 18 hole course
  
• Uses post-processing and lighting to create an unusual ambiance from in-game assets (no custom 3D)
  
• Uses music from "Donkey Kong Country" on SNES, slightly slowed down to better fit a golf game (music is "Temple voices" from the Temple ruins level)
  
• Default friction and bounciness recommended, as its the only settings I throughly playtested. The course doesn't have anything too crazy so I expect other settings to work.
  
• Please report any bug you find, and I'll fix it ASAP

• Changed lighting to make map brighter and more readable
  
• Removed "frost" post processing to replace it with distance fog (map will appear less "blurry" now)
  
• Added lots of fireflies to animate things a bit!
  
• Adjustments to some holes to make them less frustrating

The map has tame but permanent post-processing effects, as well as a lot of "fireflies", so while it's certainly not a lagfest, it's not the most performance friendly map ever either. Please consider that fact and adjust your settings down a little bit if needed.

This map could have used my usual "The Beginner's..." naming convention, as it is about the same complexity. But I thought "the beginner's marsh" had a poor ring to it. So I chose a name that befitted my goal with this map : creating a unusual visual ambiance without the use of custom 3D.

I wanted to create a map that looks different, but by using only assets from the game. And with a combination of post-processing and lighting, I think I managed to make something that looks interesting. ...even though it's slightly taxing on performance, which is why I put a fairly visible warning before in this description.

Performance isn't that bad compared to many maps I have seen, or even to that infamous one I have done in the past (Hyakki Christmas). Fortunately, the game is much better than it was before at optimizing by cropping lights that are out of range, so intersecting a few lights isn't such a big deal as before.
Okay, I got a few lagspikes when playing in 4k, which doesn't happen for me on map with no lighting. But it was playable and just reducing quality a little bit in the options solved it 100%. But it's still a potential problem, so just be aware of that little constraint when running the map.

Also, a good news for the people who follow me : my next map should come pretty soon, as I was working on this one and another in parallel. That other map will be more about gameplay innovations, unlike this one which was all about experimenting on aesthetics.

Please, like, comment, and give feedback on any problem you find!

Have fun!