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  • ProTee United
    Manufacturer
    • Aug 2014
    • 2997

    #136
    We recommend using 320x240 with PT4. Your VCam image and setup looks very good!

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    • Boerdoc
      Super Member
      • Aug 2015
      • 627

      #137
      My son just got some aeroburner hybrid and woods. The white head is messing with the hcam. It is picking up the clubhead instead of the ball so his shots are 33* left. I have messed with the gain, shutter and Frame rate and cannot seem to get something to work. Any ideas? All was working well until the white heads came along.

      I went back to reread this thread. I changed the camera to 640x480. set shutter to 14 and fps to 40 and gain to zero.... no help. I upped the greyscale per VanceV to help.... Did not work. I am really stuck on this.
      Last edited by Boerdoc; 11-02-2015, 03:15 AM. Reason: Rereading the thread gave me other ideas to try but they did not help.

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      • Richard_Askren
        Senior Member
        • Aug 2014
        • 182

        #138
        Originally posted by boerdoc View Post
        My son just got some aeroburner hybrid and woods. The white head is messing with the hcam. It is picking up the clubhead instead of the ball so his shots are 33* left. I have messed with the gain, shutter and Frame rate and cannot seem to get something to work. Any ideas? All was working well until the white heads came along.

        I went back to reread this thread. I changed the camera to 640x480. set shutter to 14 and fps to 40 and gain to zero.... no help. I upped the greyscale per VanceV to help.... Did not work. I am really stuck on this.
        You have the PT method set to PT4. Changing it to PT1 will take care of the problem. It's a bit less accurate than PT4, but has much less misreads.

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        • Boerdoc
          Super Member
          • Aug 2015
          • 627

          #139
          Originally posted by Richard_Askren View Post

          You have the PT method set to PT4. Changing it to PT1 will take care of the problem. It's a bit less accurate than PT4, but has much less misreads.

          Thanks, I will try that tonight. Any other setting recommendations, raster, fps, shutter, gain, greyscale to adjust to help as well?

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          • ProTee United
            Manufacturer
            • Aug 2014
            • 2997

            #140
            White heads are a nightmare for camera based systems. Part of the detection routine is to find white moving objects.

            If you always get these sort of images then indeed PT1 might work better for you.

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            • Boerdoc
              Super Member
              • Aug 2015
              • 627

              #141
              Well, I tried many settings and the one that worked 8 times in a row was this. Setting the method to PT1. A little bit of greyscale, 108,... shutter at 32,.... fps at 32. And 320x240 camera resolution. Every situation is different. This is what worked for me. The next thing I have to do is get my camera straightened out as I see on the captures that it is not aligned correctly. I could probably do that with some settings but I want to correct the hardware first and only use the software as a last resort.

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              • cavtrooper
                Junior Member
                • Nov 2015
                • 27

                #142
                hey guys having problems with Vcam reading my club instead of ball and giving me extreme launch angles with driver and wood. I will post a screen pic when someone tells me how. is there a setting that im missing? and when I tee up the ball like I do in real life the system wont read the swing thanks for your help

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                • Bubba22
                  Sim Guru
                  • Aug 2014
                  • 2992

                  #143
                  Post some screenshots http://golfsimulatorforum.com/help#c...content_photos

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                  • SIm
                    Member
                    • Apr 2015
                    • 36

                    #144
                    Moving my questions to this thread as it seams in topic.
                    Am not getting the red box around ball in the preview like I had before a reinstall/recovery of windows. It is also not registering ball path. If anymore pics would help lmk.
                    Thanks!






                    Sent from my SM-G920V using Tapatalk

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                    • ProTee United
                      ProTee United commented
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                      Red box not showing is not an issue. The Red box sometimes turns Grey. Same for the Red line. This is because the cams switch to grey scale mode.
                      By looking at this pic the ball is in the grey box, so all should work. Close all these windows and hit shots in the main interface screen. If it does not show any launch data in there, then you need to check if the sensors are working correctly first. Cameras will not trigger when the sensors are not working correctly.
                  • ProTee United
                    Manufacturer
                    • Aug 2014
                    • 2997

                    #145
                    First make sure the sensor mat is picking up the shots. It should say "Ball launched" and it should show shot data in the main interface screen after every shot.
                    Here is some documentation on how to check the sensors:

                    http://csc.protee-united.com/entries...ng-the-sensors

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                    • SIm
                      Member
                      • Apr 2015
                      • 36

                      #146
                      Played several rounds yesterday so the mat has to be working fine. In preview screen it says ball launched in the upper right of window for what I am guessing is the carry distance.
                      How does one log in as administrator? I have read this before and have not seen instructions for that. Have hit alt-e if that is what you are referring to.

                      Sent from my SM-G920V using Tapatalk

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                      • SIm
                        Member
                        • Apr 2015
                        • 36

                        #147



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                        • cavtrooper
                          Junior Member
                          • Nov 2015
                          • 27

                          #148
                          thanks bubba here are the screen shots

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                          • Bubba22
                            Sim Guru
                            • Aug 2014
                            • 2992

                            #149
                            Try turning the shutter speed up a bit and retest. If not increase the min grey scale for irons only.

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                            • cavtrooper
                              Junior Member
                              • Nov 2015
                              • 27

                              #150
                              thanks bubba I will do that tomorrow when I go out to practice, what would you consider a bit for the shudder speed?

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