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  • SkyTrak and The Golf Club (TGC) Simulation Software

    Hi Seth. I'm new to this forum but have been reading as much as I can about SkyTrak on this and other forums. It seems that many experienced sim users think that The Golf Club game is the best simulator software out there right now. In fact, if I'm understanding and remembering things correctly, Bubba22 and Zmax were instrumental (please correct me if I'm wrong) in getting ProTee to integrate their sim hardware (and gc2) with The Golf Club software. So my question to you/SkyTrak is simply this: Has there been any thought to integrating SkyTrak with The Golf Club? And if so, what are the odds that this might happen? And if so, when?

  • Couple of great pics of Old Bridge Heath for while we are waiting...

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    • m3w
      m3w commented
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      Thin ribbon fairways like that look good in pictures... but human beings will have a heck of time trying to hit them on a sim!

    • Brettster
      Brettster commented
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      Sweet as hell.... can't wait to get that up on my projector... and yep, hitting those may be a whole lot of fun...

  • Guess i'm going to need to find a 10 ft cable then

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    • Brettster
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      I'm going to need 20' to 30' feet! I'm planning on running this entire operation on my office desktop (located in basement) with the projector/hitting area and screen located in family room on 1st floor... fun, fun, fun... just hope I can maintain some type of quality of image, and control the PC just fine with an iPad connection to it.

    • jrz
      jrz commented
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      arwin, search Amazon for cables made by Amazon Basics. Great stuff at no frills pricing.
      Brettster They make USB and display extenders that run over Cat5 cables. Search for USB over Cat5. This might be the best solution for running USB over long distances.

    • kevin1889
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      Brettster, I've got the reverse set up. The PC is in my office on the first floor and my sim space is in the basement. I got two USB Extenders, drilled a hole through the floor, ran one of the cables (with extender) all the way to the Skytrak unit, probably about 35-45'. The second extender wasn't as long, and just hangs on the ceiling in the basement, I use a wireless keyboard with track pad and the receiver for that connects to the USB extender cable. I've also got a long HDMI that runs from the PC to my sim area. I don't see any loss in quality of image or control of the PC. Hope that all makes sense. PM me if you want more details and the products I used.

  • ProTee United Does TGC have the ability to offset the centerline of the image to account for slightly offset hitting areas? For instance, I would like to shift the hitting line right about 6 inches to align with my mat's centerline.

    For those wondering and comparison sake, e6 does have this option available.

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    • Mickey
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      That's available in the e6 demo? How?

    • goodmatt78
      goodmatt78 commented
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      It's not in the demo, but I spoke with e6 and they said it is a setting that is buried, they will help with adjustments in the released version.

    • Bnorman58
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      I didn't see this option in the online manual for e6.

  • Also got this tidbit from ProTee: "We will not sell this directly. You will have to wait for SkyTrak to announce it. They will sell it online (www.skytrakgolf.com)."

    So SkyTrak... we're waiting.... :-)

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    • It sounds like this nightmare of waiting is near the end. Even still I'm getting tired of checking skytraks website for the release. I setup a couple monitors to email me when their website changes.

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      • Joko
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        Also to add, I would imagine Seth will be gracing us with his presence once all is released, I bet he's looking forward to getting this over with.

    • Finally!

      I'm also happy as we'll have a lot more competitors in the TGC tour. Ryder cup should be quite interesting with 3x more players.

      Also, on a selfish note, there are a lot more potential complainers! Should help voice requests for continued improvement of the TGC sim software. Glad you guys are (shortly) finally included.

      Lets hope Skytrak doesn't somehow fuddle up the pricing...

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      • goatbarn
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        Yeah but I don't see the rule against talking about other sims. Other forums sure, but we can definitely talk about other sims/tours and just not reference the website/players correct? Protee can you clarify this for us, maybe even just a PM?

      • GSF_Admin
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        Not sure what it is you do not understand. When you want to talk about TGC you post in the TGC thread. When you want to talk about PG you post in the PG Thread. When you talk about Flightscope you post in the Flightscope thread. How hard can it be? We expect constructive non-commercial posts. Almost all sim products are listed on this forum. They even have their own review pages. Please post your comments in the correct thread and respect our forum rules. Thats all we ask. We want to keep this forum clean for +60k monthly viewers and prevent it from becoming an ordinary chatbox.

      • goatbarn
        goatbarn commented
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        Ok, so it was moved/deleted because it was regarding a different sim software in the wrong thread. That's all, I understand. It's just without clarification, sometimes you're left to try and figure it out and what seems clear as day to the admin may not be so clear to the poster. Thanks.

    • Well now I'm just annoyed. I cannot get any PC to see my Skytrak via USB. Always used network mode so never bothered before. Don't suppose there is some magic tip to making that work?

      Gonna rely on ProTee's response that it has been tested with wifi.

      Would any of the beta testers please chime in on if you used network mode and how it worked for you? I cannot imagine this being an issue, especially wth Wifi working on the E6 demo, seems like a basic connection method Skytrak would make available in their SDK.

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      • Wonder how they will handle the early adopter rebate they had mentioned before.
        Originally posted by rbarthle17 View Post
        Also got this tidbit from ProTee: "We will not sell this directly. You will have to wait for SkyTrak to announce it. They will sell it online (www.skytrakgolf.com)."

        So SkyTrak... we're waiting.... :-)

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        • Joko
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          Yeah that I also wonder. I do hope they honor that statement as I'm buying day of release.

        • wbond
          wbond commented
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          I plan to buy day 1 as well. So hope they still honor the early buyers.

      • Explain to me the course library in tgc. Can you choose from real and user created courses or are they all lumped together? With so many courses, how are they searched?

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        • goodmatt78
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          Yikes....that sucks.

        • ProTee United
          ProTee United commented
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          You can search by name, theme, number of holes, difficulty and sort by newest, highest rated weekly/monthly/all time, most played weekly/monthly/all time, official courses, suggested courses, handicap rated, public courses, friends courses/played/favourites, your courses, courses you played courses you marked favourit. There are plenty of external lists containing real courses... including a list on our tour website.... Yikes!

        • mthunt
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          It's really not that bad. With 100k in courses, a lot will be worthless. There's a great site by a member that has 100s of courses that are verified as good plus you can favorite courses.

      • Has anyone heard what the TGC price will be from SkyTrak? Will it be purchase or subscription?

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        • Joko
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          Hopefully we know tomorrow! Optimism.

      • Originally posted by goatbarn View Post
        Finally!

        I'm also happy as we'll have a lot more competitors in the TGC tour. Ryder cup should be quite interesting with 3x more players.

        Also, on a selfish note, there are a lot more potential complainers! Should help voice requests for continued improvement of the TGC sim software. Glad you guys are (shortly) finally included.

        Lets hope Skytrak doesn't somehow fuddle up the pricing...
        Maybe we can talk Protee into making them +10's like they do on PG. Lol
        My Courses:
        World Par 3's by mthunt
        Toronto GC (L) mthunt
        Burlington G&CC by mthunt
        Weston G&CC by mthunt
        London Hunt Club L mthunt
        Park CC Lidar mthunt
        Sunningdale GC Robinson L
        Sunningdale GC Thompson L
        Muirfield Village (liDAR) First Ever Lidar course
        Country Club of Castle Pines (liDAR)
        The Sanctuary GC ProTee L
        The National GC L mthunt
        Mississaugua GC L mthunt
        Shaughnessy G&CC L mthunt
        Markland Woods CC mthunt
        Hidden Lake Old L mthunt
        Magna GC L mthunt
        Barrie CC L mthunt
        mthunt Range

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        • goatbarn
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          Hah yes please. While they're at it make me a -10, boy do I suck as of late.

      • Originally posted by goodmatt78 View Post
        Guest Does TGC have the ability to offset the centerline of the image to account for slightly offset hitting areas? For instance, I would like to shift the hitting line right about 6 inches to align with my mat's centerline.

        For those wondering and comparison sake, e6 does have this option available.
        It's in the release for 3.0 I believe. It'll be launched very shortly.
        My Courses:
        World Par 3's by mthunt
        Toronto GC (L) mthunt
        Burlington G&CC by mthunt
        Weston G&CC by mthunt
        London Hunt Club L mthunt
        Park CC Lidar mthunt
        Sunningdale GC Robinson L
        Sunningdale GC Thompson L
        Muirfield Village (liDAR) First Ever Lidar course
        Country Club of Castle Pines (liDAR)
        The Sanctuary GC ProTee L
        The National GC L mthunt
        Mississaugua GC L mthunt
        Shaughnessy G&CC L mthunt
        Markland Woods CC mthunt
        Hidden Lake Old L mthunt
        Magna GC L mthunt
        Barrie CC L mthunt
        mthunt Range

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        • SkyTrak_Seth, everyone but you has been very vocal on this topic during the past couple of days. Don't you care about the health of Joko? He needs this.

          #savejoko
          #releasetgcforskytrak

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          • TorchRedRob
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            I heard that you were feeling ill,
            headache, fever and a chill.
            I came by to restore your pluck,
            'cause I'm the nurse who likes to...{door slams}

        • Originally posted by goodmatt78 View Post
          ProTee United Does TGC have the ability to offset the centerline of the image to account for slightly offset hitting areas? For instance, I would like to shift the hitting line right about 6 inches to align with my mat's centerline.

          For those wondering and comparison sake, e6 does have this option available.
          That might be enough for me to pump the brakes on TGC, and maybe go for E6.

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          • goatbarn
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            It's been stated, several times I believe, that TGC v3.0 will have this. Actually right above, mthunt says it as a reply to the very same post!

          • DeaconBlooze
            DeaconBlooze commented
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            Good news - I missed that.

          • goatbarn
            goatbarn commented
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            No problems, hope I didn't come off as a real D

        • A picture is worth a thousand words.
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          Special thanks to ks-man for making this special edition possible
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          • mthunt
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            It looks like he scout cammed from 11.

          • ProTee United
            ProTee United commented
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            Indeed scout cammed... for a bad golfer such as me its the only way to get there right now until we have the skip hole implemented ;-)

          • ks-man
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            Looks like you hit a pretty good drive if it defaulted to Lob Wedge from the fairway for your second shot on 11.
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