To download the Beta Update, go to http://www.betaplace.com
and login using Beta ID: APCDOpenBeta and
Password: welcome (They are case-sensitive).
Toward the bottom of the page, there is a “You Are Enrolled In The
Following Beta Programs” section. Click Links LS 2001. This
will bring up a page with the list of changes to APCD. Click
download on the left-hand side of the page to take you to a downloads
page. (You might be asked to install the Microsoft Downloads Manager, do
so when prompted.) Then
download the file apcd1_1.exe, and run it to update your copy of APCD to
the beta of version 1.1.
New features have been added and some
old features have been improved in the 1.1 Update. They are as follows:
Terrain Painter - You no longer need to
select a group of faces to employ the Terrain Painter. It will work on any
terrain you run it across. It also has the ability to add verts on the
fly, so elevation detail can be added anywhere as needed. If you use this
new ability, Terrain Painter has a setting to simplify the modified area
when you release the mouse button.
Game Cam - One of the many possible
Links views is offered by the Game Cam. This window is set to render at
the same settings that Links 2001 would use in 800x600.
Swap Hole - In the Course Properties
dialog, you may now swap one hole with another, easily renumbering
existing holes without having to completely redefine them.
Hole Preview - You may now assign Hole
Preview images for your course. The images must be JPEGs formatted 298
pixels wide and 500 pixels high (298x500). Once you've formatted them
correctly, click Course Properties, Custom Images. In the Hole Preview
section, click Add, then browse to the Hole Preview image for the first
hole. Then click Add and browse to the Hole Preview image for the second
hole, and so forth. To delete a Hole Preview image, select that image in
the drop-down and click Delete. Caution: The images you add into APCD are
numbered 0 to 17. Therefore, to remove the Hole Preview for Hole 6, you
would actually delete "holprv05." After deleting a Hole Preview,
the next image you add will fill that slot. So if you add previews for
holes 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, then delete the preview for Hole 3, you would add
the Hole Preview for Hole 3 next, and then skip to Hole 6.
Units - You may now set the Arnold
Palmer Course Designer (APCD) to use metric or English units independent
of the ones Windows uses. All units displayed in APCD (including Total
Length, formerly called Total Yardage) are updated to use your choice of
units.
Create Hole without Shapes - You may
now create a hole without using any shapes to define terrain. Follow this
method:
click Plan->Define Hole Path
Click Advanced Settings on the Command Panel
Click the General Settings button
Click Auto Create Only Hole Boundary Shapes for inserted terrain
Click OK
Now you can lay out the Hole Path and Hole ID Shapes without any other
shapes being grouped to the hole. Creating a Hole ID/Path this way will
not automatically add a Tee or Pin to your hole even if you try to insert
the red Hole ID shape. Tees and Pins for a hole may only be planted inside
the red Hole ID shape for that hole, and may only be planted on terrain
already set to Tee Area and Green respectively.
Hole Yardage Limits have been increased
as follows:
Par Old Limit New Limit
--- ---------
---------
5 700
900
4 550
700
3 250
300
The ONLY way to create a hole that is
longer than the old maximum is to use the new Create Hole Without Shapes
mode. The minimum distances for a hole have remained unchanged.
Import USGS Data - You can now import
USGS Elevation data to create a mesh. See Section D for instructions.
Planting Mode Changes - Modifications
were made to Planting Mode to speed up changes to a heavily planted
course. For more details, see Section E.
Fixes:
- A problem where the Topview TGA for an object was not being changed if a
TGA by the same name already existed in the Object Library was fixed.
- Fixed Japanese Crash for Links 2001
* Custom targa files are now always saved out as 32-bit targas with
no additional information (certain types of targas could cause the game to
crash).
* Terrain texture targas
being loaded from a course are now converted to 32-bit targas with no
additional information (if necessary), before being saved to the user lib.
IMPORTANT: To utilize this fix, delete your User.lib (this removes all
custom textures in APCD), then open your courses to re-import the custom
textures into APCD.
- A crash when a shape was created and
assigned a custom terrain type (which later got deleted without having
reassigned another terrain type to the shape) was fixed.
- Physics for the terrain category
"Other" were changed to match "Fairway".
- Clicking to delete the red Hole ID
shape, then clicking No on the warning dialog resulted in deletion of the
red Hole ID shape anyway, but without deleting the hole path, which would
remain on the course with no way to remove it. This was fixed.
- A crash that occurred when trying to
save to a CD-ROM or network path was fixed.
- The default zoom setting when loading
a course was changed to zoom to the first hole to reduce initial render
time.
- Display options were fixed so that 2D
objects and crowds can be turned off independently.
- The ability to display course shapes,
terrain shapes, or both was added to the "Display Options"
command panel.
- A bug that would plant an object at
the origin if you tried to plant it in the front, back, left, or right
views (as well as off the terrain) was fixed.
- A bug that prevented using the Tape
Measure in any viewport if a Top View was not open was fixed.
- Problems that would allow Custom
Images that didn't meet the requirements to be imported into a course were
fixed.
- Problems with the Total Yardage (now
Total Distance) Indicator displaying inconsistent values were fixed.
- A bug with the forest tool that could
plant multiple objects in the same location (if the Plant button was
clicked in quick succession) was fixed.
