OK Colin, let's talk aiming.

Which alignment makes the shot?

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CaptainJR

CaptainJR

Shiver me timbers.
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It's you against the table. Between you and The Championship of the Universe lies this shot. $10,000,000.00 to the winner. It's hill hill and your opponent had run to the 9 and the pressure was just to much for him. He wasn't playing any position so this is just what you got after he missed. How are you going to make sure that you make this shot. You think you see where the ghost ball is but how do you make sure you are seeing it correctly. Very tight pockets so it must be perfect. What do you do when you must make sure it goes in the hole? Just trust your feelings for $10,000,000.00? I don't think so.

First lets have some fun. I'll be posting 5 pictures. They are from Virtual Pool 3. One of these pictures shows the correct alignment to pocket the ball. The other four miss the shot. After we have a consensus on which is the correct picture I'll post all the pictures with the tracking cheat turned on so you can see which one makes the shot.
 
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For $10 Million, I hope the shot gets looked at from more than one angle! Measure twice, cut once. :)
 
CaptiveBred said:
Its very tough to tel in VP. The game is too tough withought the lines, IMO.

pic 3 looks close to me...
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Load up VP3, go to gamespy and play some of these folks in there where the lines arn't aloud by the game. You will see just how well it can be done.

This is just for fun folks. Go ahead and give it a go. Then I do want to get to the question of what you do when your not sure of the shot.
 
CaptainJR said:
Load up VP3, go to gamespy and play some of these folks in there where the lines arn't aloud by the game. You will see just how well it can be done.
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They cheat and so do I. I downloaded the third party application that adds lines back a while ago. It works pretty well. Everybody on gamespy has it...
 
I would have to go with number 4 as well.
I usually make those decisions while standing as the angles will look different when you are down on the shot....but 4 looks pretty good.
Steve
 
Hi JR,
Just saw this thread.

I'd guess no.3, but really it is hard to tell not having a real 3D perspective as we do in real life.

I do not have a way that I can be sure of making this shot, but if its a 5" pocket I'd be pretty confident :D
 
RoadAgent said:
Me too this is some B S....
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Ditto read my post i thought they all look the same too, but i did play virtual pool 3 on PS2 and with the fine tuning option it does make a big difference on the aiming in that game.
 
I actually think that SIGHTING is more of a dilemma tha AIMING.

What I mean is, that if I could see where my cue was pointing, judging the actual angles is not so hard.

But mine, and I suspect most other's eyes, do not see the line as it really is.

If I lift my head about 8 inches and kind of strain with my left eye, I can see the line very close to what it truly is, but it is a strain, a kind of weak perception and weak guide.

If I am down in position to see along the cue, I can see a clear line along which it points, but the problem is this perceived line is about 1 degree to the left of where my cue is actually pointing.

This means, to actually make a full length table pot, with OB center of the table, I have to aim to what looks like missing the pot by about 3 inches to the right of the center of the pocket.
 
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First off, I assure you they are not the same. What would have to gain by making them the same? Nothing. But if you would like to check you can. These are 640X480 pictures so it would be some counting, but not like thousands or anything. Download the pictures, put them in a graphics program and count pixels from the back end of the stick and the front end of the stick to the center line on the table. Then you will know that they are all different.

There are a couple of them that are very close. See the word fine tune on the bottom of the screen. That is how I found the positions that most closely missed the shot. So now you know that besides there being a correct picture, there are two pictures that are as close to making the shot as you can be but do miss. One is ever so slightly over cut and one is ever so slightly under cut.

More to come.
 
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