2k23 designer changes

[Violinguy69]

Making fences with splines is freaking awesome.  I don't know if it messes with the object meter any differently than the old way, but I really like this change.

[fargo]

There's one thing I don't like: when sculpting land, if you've selected a brush and elevation change with landscape raise, then back out and change to landscape flatten, the brush reverts back to the default circle shape. In 21 the brush shape, size and elevation would be retained after changing.

I suppose it's a minor thing but I often like to switch between raise and flatten and often want to use the same brush, it's a pain to have to switch brush and re-shape it every time.

[pobee10]

Guys,

Does anyone know where the "courses" folder is for 2k23 on the hard drive? Did the unpublished course folder get removed for 2k23 and now only cloud based?

[sandgroper]

Courses now live in %USERPROFILE%\Documents\"My Games"\"PGA TOUR 2K23"\Courses

[pobee10]

Oct 15, 2022 20:42:36 GMT -5 sandgroper said:

Courses now live in %USERPROFILE%\Documents\"My Games"\"PGA TOUR 2K23"\Courses

Ah, thanks!

[mpad]

I am warming to the look of 23k23. My ported courses looked awful with half sunken bushes showing up bright lime green instead of dark brown.

These bushes had been sunk in amongst grass to give an acceptable moorland look in 2k21

To my amazement, having removed all the bright green bushes in 2k23, the course looks really good without them. I know there are rendering issues, but grasses at mid range look so much better

[fargo]

I've just realised the weather is significantly improved. Two cloud layers that can be properly adjusted independently. I'm finding it much easier to play around with how the course looks.

[plawlor15]

Hi all,

I'm late to the party here, I know, but just getting into the new Designer this week. I am strictly a mouse and keyboard Designer. Am I missing something or can I no longer navigate the menus using the keyboard? It's impossible to select an object because as soon as you move the mouse from an area on the plot to click on the object in the left menu, you've lost focus and the object list changes. Keyboard arrows don't do anything. I really hope I am just missing something...

Edit: It's even worse than I thought. Objects don't highlight in purple with a mouse hover. Only seems to work if I add and use a controller.  Are you kidding me? Again, really hope I am just doing something wrong!

The 'U' key for Undo seems to be gone too. I can't survive without an ability to Undo what I just messed up.

Thanks,
Peter

[virtualgolfer65]

plawlor15 See the following thread (toward the bottom) for how to find & play your unpublished courses, including with unique balls.

tgctours.proboards.com/thread/31904/2k23-expendable-balls-when-playtesting

[plawlor15]

Oct 25, 2022 13:40:44 GMT -5 virtualgolfer65 said:

plawlor15 See the following thread (toward the bottom) for how to find & play your unpublished courses, including with unique balls.

tgctours.proboards.com/thread/31904/2k23-expendable-balls-when-playtesting

Wow. That is tough to find now.

Thanks for this!

Peter

[slippymcdippy]

Oct 25, 2022 12:56:37 GMT -5 plawlor15 said:

Hi all,

I'm late to the party here, I know, but just getting into the new Designer this week. I am strictly a mouse and keyboard Designer. Am I missing something or can I no longer navigate the menus using the keyboard? It's impossible to select an object because as soon as you move the mouse from an area on the plot to click on the object in the left menu, you've lost focus and the object list changes. Keyboard arrows don't do anything. I really hope I am just missing something...

Edit: It's even worse than I thought. Objects don't highlight in purple with a mouse hover. Only seems to work if I add and use a controller.  Are you kidding me? Again, really hope I am just doing something wrong!

The 'U' key for Undo seems to be gone too. I can't survive without an ability to Undo what I just messed up.

Thanks,
Peter


ctrl-z is your undo now, and use the cursor to find buried items

[sandgroper]

Just in case you are on PC and want to play Unpublished courses

[plawlor15]

Oct 25, 2022 19:58:31 GMT -5 slippymcdippy said:

Oct 25, 2022 12:56:37 GMT -5 plawlor15 said:

Hi all,

I'm late to the party here, I know, but just getting into the new Designer this week. I am strictly a mouse and keyboard Designer. Am I missing something or can I no longer navigate the menus using the keyboard? It's impossible to select an object because as soon as you move the mouse from an area on the plot to click on the object in the left menu, you've lost focus and the object list changes. Keyboard arrows don't do anything. I really hope I am just missing something...

Edit: It's even worse than I thought. Objects don't highlight in purple with a mouse hover. Only seems to work if I add and use a controller.  Are you kidding me? Again, really hope I am just doing something wrong!

The 'U' key for Undo seems to be gone too. I can't survive without an ability to Undo what I just messed up.

Thanks,
Peter


ctrl-z is your undo now, and use the cursor to find buried items

Thanks for the ctrl-z tip slippymcdippy .

But I must still be missing something on object selection.  I am using the cursor menu, but with a mouse and keyboard only, there appears to be no way to select objects. Are you on m&k too?

I'm seeing all kinds of weird behaviours with mouse and keyboard in the Designer:
- The arrows don't work inside the cursor left submenu. Tab seems to  shift keyboard focus to that submenu, but you can't arrow up and down inside it.
- If you happen  to get an object selected, there are no keyboard shortcuts available to you. You need to mouse select options from the left submenu. And again, you can't arrow up or down to get to them.
- If  you mouse select  an option, for example, Area Select, CTRL-Arrow Up/Down no longer resizes . Nothing seems to.

Am I the only m&k user out there that is freaking out right now? I really hope it's just a setting or issue with my local setup and not a complete miss on HB's part. If they've dropped mouse & keyboard support, my design days are done. I'm not a gamer, so never caught on to a controller.

Thanks,
Peter

[cg444]

Oct 26, 2022 6:24:09 GMT -5 plawlor15 said:

Oct 25, 2022 19:58:31 GMT -5 slippymcdippy said:

Thanks for the ctrl-z tip slippymcdippy .

But I must still be missing something on object selection.  I am using the cursor menu, but with a mouse and keyboard only, there appears to be no way to select objects. Are you on m&k too?

I'm seeing all kinds of weird behaviours with mouse and keyboard in the Designer:
- The arrows don't work inside the cursor left submenu. Tab seems to  shift keyboard focus to that submenu, but you can't arrow up and down inside it.
- If you happen  to get an object selected, there are no keyboard shortcuts available to you. You need to mouse select options from the left submenu. And again, you can't arrow up or down to get to them.
- If  you mouse select  an option, for example, Area Select, CTRL-Arrow Up/Down no longer resizes . Nothing seems to.

Am I the only m&k user out there that is freaking out right now? I really hope it's just a setting or issue with my local setup and not a complete miss on HB's part. If they've dropped mouse & keyboard support, my design days are done. I'm not a gamer, so never caught on to a controller.

Thanks,
Peter

Mouse and keyboard is almost impossible in the new designer - been flagged by other designers as well. The lack of keyboard controls seems to be the biggest issue for me - looks like these have been taken away.

[plawlor15]

Oct 26, 2022 7:33:10 GMT -5 cg444 said:

Thanks for clarifying, but yuck...