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Monday, June 21, 2010

Huntingdale Project.

Well gents the Huntingdale project is in full production now thanks to the Master of 3D Pat Auge. You may see his masterpeice in the background of the pics. Here is a few Pictures of the course in its current state of planting! Please disregard the rough textures as its only a place holder at this stage!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Thursday, June 10, 2010

An update and a rant

Jason has the Huntingdale file back from his builder. I’m sure he’ll be along to give a more detailed rundown on what has been going on.

Pat Auge my co-designer on the Kauri Cliffs project currently has the master file and has been constructing the miles of farm fences on the course. When finished they’re going to add a lot to the visual appeal of the course. I’m not sure when the course will be finished as I’m starting a high level IT course in 6 weeks which covers network infrastructure and the innards of Windows Server 2008.

 

 



My rant is about people in the Links community who aren’t IT experts and do not have any IT qualifications of any kind giving half assed advice and opinions on very technical matters. To these people I say just because you have issues with your own PC’s with Links 2003 don’t just assume it’s always Microsoft’s or [insert driver manufacturers name here] fault. In some cases it just may be that you don’t have the technical expertise to correctly setup your PC and then do complex problem solving diagnosis in IT of issues that may have been self inflicted.

All good diagnosis is based on an objective assessment of what does or doesn’t work on a given system. It isn’t based on what operating system or which video card manufacturer you hate the most. Inflicting ones prejudices on others as a way of posing as an IT expert isn’t going to solve any computer problems.



Indeed the same symptoms on multiple computers can have  different causes on each. This is common with both desktop PC’s and huge networks in the corporate world. 

 



Anyone who wants to debate my rant well you better come armed with facts, otherwise make my day……

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Wednesday, April 28, 2010

A Kauri Cliffs image

Here’s an image from the Kauri Cliffs project, It’s of the 11th hole with the recently planted marshlands and the forest on the top of the hill on the right.

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Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Lost family member

Hi all, well its been a rough 12 months for my wife and family. On the 24th February 2010 my wife’s Sister Judy passed away of cervix cancer at age 38. Just over over a year ago on the 24th December 2008 she lost her mum to an unknown disease.

I just thought to share with you the reasons why there have not been a lot of updates.

Hopefully I will get things back on track over the next few days and try to continue posting more.

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Tuesday, February 2, 2010

What’s been happening around the green!

Hi All,

There will be new member to our team shortly. We will announce his name once we have him in the blog. Keep an eye out for his posts.

Lindsay is very busy with his IT course and can only post on the rare occasion.

I have been very busy as well with a family Medical drama so I have not had time to post anything. I will do a complete update over the weekend with new pics and some preview info.

Until then happy golfing!

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Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Waterstone!

OK Gents Here it is Waterstone has Been released at APCD-Courses and of cause links corner! So if you have been following the blog what are you waiting for go get it!

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Thursday, November 19, 2009

A New upgrade on old Favorite Course!

Well as I have mention before I have handed over Huntingdale to My Master 3D builder to build the club house. So while he is busy doing his thing with that and other projects he has on the go I thought I would do an HD upgrade of my old Favorite course TAD River West (The Lakes Course) designed by Scott Gavenlock.

 

So with his permission I have started to get this course playable in the Mod 1.07 Version of links and of cause that means HD textures can be used. At this stage the course is about 95% complete with only minor planting adjustments to do and Beta testing.

The course routing has not changed other than some new greens and minor hole length changes being done to make the course play harder and for possible use on online tours.

 

Here is a sample of what's being done so far :-

This is the old 3rd Green.

old 3rd 

This is the new 3rd Green pushed back over the water

New 3 

This is the old 4th par 3

Old 4 

New 4th green with a bulk head in front

New 4 

Stay tuned for more updates soon!

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