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REGULAR METER IS OFF CENTER ??

• TNP56 510 Posts

  Wed, Jul 31 2013 8:04 AM

  I have cleared all my stuff out as I always do after an upgrade......why is the regular meter now starts out to the left of center when you swing?

   

  It starts way off to the left from your click area for your shot .....making the swing power area a lot smaller thus screwing up my distance control......was this a part of the update?

   

  I also sent in  a BUG report but not sure if the issue can be seen because ya can't hold the swing to show what the problem is when ya send it......

• andyson 6,415 Posts

  Wed, Jul 31 2013 8:35 AM

  TNP56:

  It starts way off to the left from your click area for your shot .....making the swing power area a lot smaller thus screwing up my distance control......was this a part of the update?

  Yes, this changed as a part of the update.  And for the better I might add.  The gradient colors used in the "old" meter were much more difficult for our CPUs to animate.  WGT went to solid colors on both the backswing and downswing.  My preliminary testing shows much less CPU power used to animate the meter.  This is a good thing and something members have been asking WGT to implement.

  Here's the new meter on top and the old meter with gradient on the bottom.

  

  Note there is NO change to the length of the power area so it should not affect your distance control

   

• PaulTon 10,731 Posts

  Wed, Jul 31 2013 8:52 AM

  Did the return stroke on the power bar have to be coloured what I can only describe as luminous bile green?

• TNP56 510 Posts

  Wed, Jul 31 2013 8:57 AM

  Thanks Andy ol buddy for explaining that.....I really appreciate that

  and Yankee.....thanks a lot also....my bad for not seeing that....

• Tben 11 Posts

  Wed, Jul 31 2013 9:44 AM

  This new meter is awful. Used to be able to drag back the indicator to select speed, now have to click to stop, then click again to hit the ding. I lost 2 balls on the first tee with this meter. It is also hard to gauge distance, as the meter starts way left of center ding spot, and I am not sure if distance is figured fron where it starts, or from center of ding. I have about 15 balls left, and after they are gone (which will be quickly) I am going to retire from WGT.WGT implimented 3 new meters, it baffles me to why the original one could not have been left as an option.

• MBaggese 15,367 Posts

  Wed, Jul 31 2013 9:50 AM

  Tben:

  Used to be able to drag back the indicator to select speed, now have to click to stop, then click again to hit the ding.

   

  You have the "3 click" meter selected, go in to your equipment and select "original" meter, down at the bottom if I recall.

• Tben 11 Posts

  Wed, Jul 31 2013 10:47 AM

  Thanks for the advice, but I still can not find the option to change to original. I searched forums, and found a post from WGT saying go to play game screen, click on edit equiptment, and they said the button to change modes is in there on the bottom under the drivers. I will keep searching

• Milfshake 1,260 Posts

  Wed, Jul 31 2013 10:55 AM

  The new meter messes with my eyes a bit. 

• Tben 11 Posts

  Wed, Jul 31 2013 11:01 AM

  Thanks again, I am a dumb ass, I found the tab in the equiptment just as you said. I do not know how I kept missing seeing that tab!

• garyk49 2,330 Posts

  Wed, Jul 31 2013 11:01 AM

  Tben:

  Thanks for the advice, but I still can not find the option to change to original. I searched forums, and found a post from WGT saying go to play game screen, click on edit equiptment, and they said the button to change modes is in there on the bottom under the drivers. I will keep searching

  It's on your change equipment screen.  Where you can change clubs, balls, etc.

  Look across the bottom, bags, meter, driver, clubs.  Scroll through the different meters just like scrolling through different balls.  Select the one that you want.

  Change either from game client screen or equipment screen in your profile