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Ball Trail on Replays

• alosso 21,069 Posts

  Tue, Feb 13 2018 6:46 AM

  I stand corrected - didn't notice that experimental setting of my bag.

• ZioMio 4,680 Posts

  Tue, Feb 13 2018 9:03 AM

  Thanks for the replies. I had noticed that the replays had lost the trails some time ago although I still had the option checked ON. I waited to post till after I did my PC cleaning to see if they would return.

  I liked to view the trails on long putts to actually see how it breaks. Also on approachs that rolled past the pin.

• ScottHope 10,411 Posts

  Tue, Feb 13 2018 10:02 AM

  borntobesting:

  it all depends on the ball you were using when you made the shot that the replay shows,If a vapor ball used you will have a vapor trail in the replay  if a regular non vapor ball was used you wont have a vapor trail in the replay, I watched a couple of each after reading this thread vapor ball had a vapor trail in the saved replay a normal non vapor ball did not.

  I'm pretty sure in the past that the trail was active in replays for any type of ball you played with. If the vapour trail in replays only worked where the shot was made with a vapour ball, then that option in the settings would be completely pointless, as the trail is still there when you set the option to off.
  
  I'll also point out the blurb at the bottom of the options window pertaining to the replay trail...
  
  

  
  ...I take that to mean you had a trail from the club head to where the ball finished, in its entirety, and not fading out behind the ball as it went. If you look for some recorded replays on YouTube, you will see that this is the case.
  
  (Hope you don't mind me using your picture Zio.)

• DonCaron 5,502 Posts

  Tue, Feb 13 2018 10:16 AM

  Yes you are right Scott, I never use Vapor Trail Balls and it was always there on replays.

• borntobesting 9,695 Posts

  Tue, Feb 13 2018 12:34 PM

  True Scott ,before all replays no matter what kind of ball you played you had the vapor trail if you selected it in the options. I was merely pointing out that you were correct in your previous post. 

• ScottHope 10,411 Posts

  Tue, Feb 13 2018 1:28 PM

  No worries Joe.
  
  I do think it's a bit silly of WGT to give both of these things the same name.
  
  The vapour balls give out a trail which dissipates as the ball travels. The ball trails in the game options should've been called something else, like ball tracer, because it traces the path of the ball and doesn't dissipate (or at least it didn't when it worked). But now they've got another thing called Top Tracer in the game, so they'd have to rename that as well to avoid more confusion.
  
  SUMMARY :

  Vapour ball trails and the ball trails (replay) in the game settings are two different things.

• ZioMio 4,680 Posts

  Tue, Feb 13 2018 4:36 PM

  ScottHope:

  (Hope you don't mind me using your picture Zio.)

  Not at all Scott. I only use the "rock" and had had the trails on all replays till this bug appeared. The saved replays have their bugs now that were not there when saved. And I will go as far as saying the majority of bugs appeared when the mobile game was introduced.

• ZioMio 4,680 Posts

  Fri, Jan 4 2019 9:39 AM

  ZioMio:

  Has anyone else lost this feature? I'm using Max 5 with Win 7.

   

  I'm pleased to see that this feature has been repaired.

• ScottHope 10,411 Posts

  Fri, Jan 4 2019 10:20 AM

  I haven't been monitoring this, but it's working for me too Zio.