Golf Club Architect update for 27 August 2023

Features

• Added green presets. Selecting the cup button now also shows a panel allowing selection
• Added bunker presets.
• Added a course management window.
• Added the course management finance tab.
• Added loans.
• Added overlays panel.
• Added two ambient music tracks.
• Added happiness overlay to show the locations at which events take place which make the golfers happy or sad.
• Added beauty overlay to show the locations at which events take place which make the golfers think the course is beautiful or ugly.

Updates

• Removed ability to rotate surfaces as this is not possible with the new terrain rendering technique.
• Removed stripes from fairway surface.
• Added fringe around green and fairway surfaces.
• Added light fog.
• Added normal maps to terrain.
• Added ability to reset hole statistics via new button on hole radial menu. Right-click the tee or cup to open the menu.
• Added ability to change the screen resolution from the Steam Launch Options.
• Changed the paint fairway tutorial step to end when you click a button.
• Improved navigation for the main menu (escape now closes the current window).
• Improved the release notes window.
• Improved the look of window tabs.
• Brightened the game and user interface.
• Improved random player generation to be based on handicaps.
• Added player handicap to player information window.
• Shortened in game calendar.
• Updated SFX for bulldozing rocks.
• Updated SFX for placing fences.
• Updated SFX for painting surfaces.
• Improved the start new game menu.
• Added more information to the hole list window.
• Moved grid and elevation buttons to overlays panel.
• Updated grass toggle in settings to leave flowers enabled.
• Updated practice net impact sound to use new SFX and vary volume base on impact velocity.
• Updated fallof of sounds emitted by the player and the ball so SFX are less audible at height. Previously
• Tweaked max golfer inaccuracy as they were spraying shots wildly.
• Updated email sound.
• Reduced strength of mail watermark in the email window.
• Made flowers far more sparse in Countryside map.
• Added bulldoze tree sound effect.
• Added happiness to top bar of Golfer Information Window.
• Added happiness to player list.
• Updated timeout for golfers blocked from getting to their ball from 30s to 5 minutes.
• Updated player logic so that they quit the hole after timing out being blocked from getting to their ball. Previously they would just go to the next hole.
• Updated loading screen tips/quotes/rules/definitions styling.
• Updated the color of emails and saved games in their respective lists.
• Height flatten tool now allows selection of a height to paint.
• Updated raise/lower height tool to make a smoothing pass after adjustments.
• Updated mood emojis.
• Reduce player happiness if they hit the ball into water.
• Removed shadows for grass. They were expensive and provided little visual benefit.
• Added links from emails that take you to the course management window.
• Improved the time display on email entries.
• Added images to tabs.
• Improved visibility of selected club in club selector.
• Increased resolution of character preview in character creator.
• Doubled resolution of golfer information window preview.
• Added tooltips to hole information panel.
• Added more tooltips to the top bar.
• Reduced height layering tool strength.

Improvements

• Improved terrain rendering quality to remove wobbly seams between surfaces.

Fixes

• Fixed graphics options not showing when in exclusive fullscreen.
• Fixed default par for hole calculated incorrectly.
• Fixed memory leak in terrain system.
• Fixed unable to pan the camera using the mouse when the cursor is over the UI.
• Fixed adding lots of golfers to the character select screen causing UI layout issues.
• Fixed hole information panel not updating as hole stats are updated.
• Fixed continue button loading incompatible saves.
• Fixed benefactor missing for some saves.
• Fixed eyedropper not using eyedropped prop rotation.
• Fixed being able to rotate the tee from the cup.
• Fixed being able to use the eyedropper in the tutorial.
• Fixed missing keybind panel for rotating surface presets.
• Fixed error when saving changes to a custom golfer.
• Fixed clubhouse showing through the floor when you selected it but didn't move the mouse.
• Fixed exceptions loading game settings config. Converted to XML.
• Fixed incorrect prop descriptions for bushes.
• Fixed eyedropper not selecting the bridge placement tool when selecting bridges.
• Fixed incorrect par being calculated for very long holes.
• Fixed changing bottom bar selector not resetting the tool.
• Fixed ball active state not save/loaded correctly.
• Fixed balls hit out of bounds not being able to find a proper drop location. A fallback has been added where the player drops near to where they are at the time they can't find their ball.
• Fixed players taking drops that require an extremely long path to get to the drop location.
• Fixed being able to place an obstacled near a tee that blocks players from navigating correctly.
• Fixed the no golfers scheduled message so it reflects days where golfers have played before the message is viewed.
• Fixed "very beautiful" beautify notification icon being used in all beauty notifications instead of the icon appropriate for the level of beauty of the observed object.
• Fixed email sounds overlapping when emails were sent in quick succession.
• Fixed golfers sometimes getting stuck exiting the course at the clubhouse.
• Fixed tooltips not being in the correct location on non-16:9 resolutions.
• Fixed typo in golfopedia section name.
• Fixed typo in first tutorial instructions.
• Fixed golfers sometimes facing the wrong direction when taking a shot.
• Fixed being able to place props over cups.
• Fixed not being able to bulldoze when you had no money, even if the bulldoze should be a refund.
• Fixed dirt path not blending with other dirt.
• Fixed dirt path giving a refund while still keeping the path.
• Fixed UI scaling issues on 32:9 resolutions.
• Fixed having to select surfaces twice if you previously had a surface preset selected.
• Fixed not being able to finish the tutorial automatically if the golfer failed the hole.