Camera ViewsCamera ViewsAim: To encourage you to get a camera setup that is good for you, and to make them work for you in the real sense....they're not just for decoration, but tools to help you in your game.
As with everything else in this guide, you should come to your own conclusions about the best setup for you. make the cameras work in your favour. A top view is essential for aiming and for a general view of whats involved in the shot, but I think a profile view is a bit of overkill, I used to have this but there is enough profile information in the bottom left of your screen for my liking. That gauge will show the slope to your aiming pin and then on to the green and you can use the aiming pin to "feel" around the area you are aiming at to see how the profile changes. Have the profile cam if you want as I guess it is a more visual representation of the general slope of a hole, but I dont think you gain much compared to looking at the aiming pin info in the bottom left of your screen.The Chat camera is obviously essential for online play where you should be having a laugh with your opponent as well as congratulating / commiserating each other ! but you can turn this view off for your offline solo games.The other view you are advised to have is some kind of green/pin camera...I'm not a believer that you can read any more information on the break of a putt from it ( when you get a grid for putting ! ) but it should instead be used to look at the contours of a green BEFORE you hit a shot to it.On this camera you may see tiers in the greens or slopes that arent so obvious in the other views, especially if you "feel" your aiming pin in this camera view and look at the profile info bottom left as I've mentioned. It can also help identify flat spots where you might prefer to putt from even if it means aiming away from the pin a little.Try accounting for a little break when you aim at par3's if you see the pin is on a slope, thats the way ErnieB came up with his ace book at his site, by noting down how far AWAY from the pin you should aim to get the ball to the hole with a perfect snap. On the other side of that, sometimes Links doesn't aim you right at the pin but away from it...for a flat green and no lie problems you can use this view to put your aiming pin right at the hole to the exact pixel...you can also zoom in and out on this view ( apply the changes then click the "R" button to redraw )..so you can zoom out to look at the overall green shape and then zoom in for that pixel perfect aiming at the pin or nearby. I am lucky enough to have a 17"er ( monitor that is ) so I have a top view that stretches all the way down the right edge of my screen and about a fifth of the screen width, that gives a really good view of the entire hole. I have a pin camera top right, about a 3 or 4" square and I put the chat cam along the top when I need it. For your information I run Links at 1024*768 with 65,000 colours and have the details set to auto, via the display setup options and the course details options.
Top Tips: Use a top view as your main window for aiming and general view of the hole
Use a green or pin camera to focus on the green and hole and to look at the slopes
Use this also to aim at the pin or away if you see a nice flat spot or a break near the pin
Use your aiming pin to "feel" around your target area and look at the profile info at bottom left of your screen