User manual GAMES PC DREAMWEB JOURNAL

[. . . ] Course Architect 2000 is a 3D development tool that shares features and methods with 3D graphics programs like 3D Studio Max®. Each course has eighteen holes that you configure, load, and design one at a time. When you are working with a course, you're presented with a 2D, top-down view of the layout of your course in one window. Then you can position the 3D camera anywhere in the window, and by pressing a button, you can render the camera's view into the 3D View window. [. . . ] With the Populate tool, you can place multiple trees--or another object type--within a selected terrain area. Populating Areas. HOW TO REPOSITION THE TEES Each hole has four different tees from which golfers can play. In order of increasing difficulty, the tees are red, white, blue, and black, where the PGA Page 76 Course Architect 2000 TOUR Tournament golfers begin. In standard practice, the tees are placed in order of increasing distance from the green. To reposition a tee, you use a process that is different from other outlines. If you can't see the Hole Information pop-up, select it from the Hole tab toolbar. If you cannot see the shot paths in 2D View, they should appear after you select Hole Information button. In 2D View, you can see the color-coded shot paths that link each tee to the green. Click and drag the colored dot that identifies the tee to a new location. You probably want to move the underlying outlines after you have moved the shot path. Click and drag the outline to a location such that the marker for the tee on the shot path is in the middle of the tee outline. When placing your last control point, double-click to finish the outline. Don't worry about fine-tuning the small changes of direction in the shape of the outline. Page 79 Course Architect 2000 OUTLINE AND TEXTURE TYPES The following course features can be built in Course Architect 2000. When you apply a texture to the outline, you define its appearance and play characteristics. When you start a new hole, outlines for the tees, fairway, and green are placed for you. You can customize these outlines or add outlines with the Outline Tools !Outline Tools. FAIRWAY The fairway outline describes the play area where a golfer wants to hit his tee shot and all other shots before he reaches the green. A golf fairway has fairly short grass and is intended to have smooth play characteristics. The sand outline is used for sand traps, the bane of a golfer's shots. A sand trap or bunker is filled with relatively soft sand into which a ball can partially sink. To get out of a bunker, a golfer usually swings a sand wedge, a sharply angled club, which is designed to get under a ball mired in sand and to give it lift over the lip of the trap. [. . . ] A golf club that is used for striking the ball when it is on the green and near the hole. A Camera menu selection, Render Flat displays 3D View with textures as simple, flat colors. A Camera menu selection, Render Textures displays 3D View to the best of the computer's ability with full textures. A Camera menu selection, Render Wire displays in 3D View the course as a wireframe mesh of facets. [. . . ]