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[mebby]

Really impressive display of the improvements made here...

 

 

[axe360]

Beautiful!!

[✠ davef ✠]

yea but there is still a bit of work to be done. im not saying this putt should have gone in as 

it was off track but the balls reaction should have been different.

i have had a few of these since the last update. however they are very good in all other areas.

[Andrew]

Damn I hate those

[Charles]

The cup physics is about 80% I feel. I compare it with Links-03 and that is my benchmark on this. Although the dev's are still working on it ofcourse and Links is a finished product. It just goes to show how difficult it is in getting this part of the equation right. I'm confident it will all be right in the end. On a side-note I hope the golfball visibility will improve still further. I would like to see a more 'harder' white then the present ball. That too needs improvement. And that goes for the BLI pole and the flagstick too. Both are still to dark.

[bortimus]

I too liked the Links cup physics, but there were quirks too.  I had numerous putts hit way too firmly go in when the hole suddenly became "self-aware" and sucked the putt into the side of the cup when it probably should have zoomed by. 

Generous yes, but probably not the most realistic

 

I think the PG cup now is so much better than before. 

 

I also didn't realize how hard it was to program a hole in the ground to act correctly.  I don't envy the programmers. 

[RobV]

I too liked the Links cup physics, but there were quirks too.  I had numerous putts hit way too firmly go in when the hole suddenly became "self-aware" and sucked the putt into the side of the cup when it probably should have zoomed by. 

Generous yes, but probably not the most realistic

 

I think the PG cup now is so much better than before. 

 

I also didn't realize how hard it was to program a hole in the ground to act correctly.  I don't envy the programmers. 

Agree with Links... you can and can't really use those cup physics as a benchmark..  especially for chipping lip outs.. always loved the chips where the ball would roll to the edge of the cup, go around the flagstick and fly another 8 ft past the hole!  hahahah

 

Overall, PG's has improved greatly! 

[Charles]

Although I mentioned 'benchmark' for the cup physics in Links-03, I agree that in Links too, there were a few glitches. Sometimes the cup would 'grab' a ball which should have gone by. Nice, but still a bit of a downer deep down ofcourse. But all in all, I have seen so many true to life putts a/o 'fall-in's on the last roll' a/o lipp-outs a/o '180's and even '360's around the cup, for me, they nailed it 99%. But, in all fairness to PG, I guess the engine and real emergent physics have to have something to do with it? Anyway, I agree that after every update, it's getting better and better.

[Dazmaniac]

Since PG introduced the full white hole, the hole physics have improved immensely.

 

There is still work to be done, as we have seen, but I think the 'blippy' putts are much less common than in previous builds.

[✠ davef ✠]

another i just had on the Swan.

[✠ davef ✠]

figured i put up the bad so i better put something up good.IMO everything worked perfectly on this putt.