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You don't have to be a combination architect-computer programmer to create a course for Jack Nicklaus 6
. In fact, it's easier than a six-inch putt on a fair-weather green. What's more, it's powerful. If you want to model your local course with every rock and slope in proper position, every tiny bay in the water hazard accurate to the foot, and every species of tree set to the right height, well, no problem! And you can host your creations on the Zone!
The game documentation gives you a great overview of the editor, including a course-construction walk-through and a number of tips on good design. If you're intimidated despite all our assurances, you might try the following mini walk-through.
Giant Redwoods Hole
- Load your Jack Nicklaus
CD. If it doesn't auto-start, click on My Computer and then your CD ROM icon displaying the Golden Bear logo.
- Click Design on the Installer menu.
- On the Golf Course Designer Screen, choose New Course from the File menu.
- Right-click anywhere in the Custom Course window, and choose New Hole from the popup window. An icon of a course hole will appear.
- Move the icon to the middle of the screen and click once. A “Hole 1” dialogue box will appear. Pull the icon straight right. You'll notice that the icon drags a black line behind it and a number starts counting up in the Tee box.
- When the Tee number's up to around 290, click again to set the tee shot distance and then pull the icon up diagonally toward the top right corner. You'll notice that there's now a changing number in the 2nd-shot box. Make this around 150, and click to set the 2nd-shot distance.
- Finally, set the approach distance about 30 feet or so in whatever direction you like, and click to finish the basic course, which will automatically be set to the proper par value.
- Double-click on the hole to bring up the Edit Hole window. You'll see four tee locations on the left and the green at the right end of the fairway. Go to the View menu and click the Trees Palette. Click the “mountain trees” -- the icon 13 from the top and three over. Move your cursor to the Edit Hole window and click on it to place the tree.
- Now increase the size of the tree. Double-click it, and a dialogue box will come up. Change the Height value to 400 -- why not?
- Make sure you still have the tree selected -- it'll be surrounded by a dotted line. Hit CTRL+C to copy the tree, then CTRL+V to paste it in the upper left corner of the screen. Drag and drop the copy wherever you like. Press CTRL+V again to paste another copy, and then place that one too. Repeat until you've got some impressive stands, but if you're going to play the hole, you might not want to block a view from the tee to the green.
- That's it, really. You've created a basic hole. Hit the SPACEBAR to render your work and view it from a first-person perspective. Use your keyboard's arrow keys to navigate around. To play on your course, select Save As Playable from the File menu, and once you've saved it, exit out of the editor and start up the game. You'll see your course listed among all the others.
The course editor allows you to arrange holes however you wish, add dozens of objects to each one, create water hazards and bunkers, and completely reshape and change the elevation of any part of the terrain. Check out the game's documentation and create your own masterpiece.
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