Hi
there!!
All
the budding course designers out there will be happy to hear about the
recently released Arnold Palmer Course Designer
version 1.1 Update. The APCD Update v1.1 adds new
features, and fixes several issues
with the Arnold Palmer Course Designer. Added features include Terrain
Painter, Game Cam, Hole Preview, the ability to import elevation data,
and much more. To download the update, please
visit:
http://www.microsoft.com/games/links2001/downloads.asp
Arnold
Palmer Course Designer version 1.1 Update
-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.
-Units - You may now set the
Arnold Palmer Course Designer (APCD) to use metric or English units
independent of the ones Windows uses. Create Hole without Shapes -Hole
Boundary-You may now create a hole without using any shapes to define
terrain.
-Hole Yardage Limits have been
increased as follows:
Par Old Limit
New Limit
5 700
900
4 550
700
3 250
300
-Import Elevation Data - You can
now import Elevation Data to create a mesh.
-Planting Mode Changes -
Modifications were made to Planting Mode to speed up changes to a heavily
planted course.
- 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.
- 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 on the Views sub-tab.
- 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.
-Using APCD 1.1 and Links
1.21 (or newer versions), the custom object "Tournament Object"
flag was fixed so that custom objects flagged as Tournament Objects now
display in Links only when you set Links to display Tournament Objects
