Apart from the main points described above, we have been doing some other improvements that were asked by many:

Release 5.1 – September 2020

• select flight height for DUCK and GROUSE/PARTRIDGE (from 5m to 50m).
• new shot sounds for shotgun and rifle.
• new ambient sounds for ANIMATED wild-boar, ANIMATED roe-deer and ANIMATED red deer.
• target speed is displayed in km/h instead of m/s.
• target can be shot up to 200m distance.
• faster program startup and faster switching between scenarios and shots.
• new default SKEET ISSF outlet speeds, according to ISSF rules.
• enable larger field of view for SKEET ISSF, to make it more realistic on stand 8.
• no more sound pitching when simulation speed is slower/faster than actual speed.
• disabling of FPS warning pop-up.
• ANIMATED animals are now scared instead of confused when they hear a shot. When scared, they will escape running.
• added the FIXED TARGET discipline in DRIVEN mode.
• DRIVEN mode: the program now automatically detects if running in normal or DRIVEN mode.
• DRIVEN mode: added separate room measurement settings for DRIVEN mode.
• DRIVEN mode: Force Result pop-up and Result text table being shown in bottom of screen.
• adjusted default shot statistics settings for PHEASANT and GROUSE/PARTRIDGE.
• added Hungarian language.
• auto translation of scenarios’ names.
• rearranging (and renaming) the background image folders, e.g. “3D – Deers – Boars” contains images for Wild boar/Red deer/Roe deer. With this new arrangement the images take up about half as much disk space (i.e. there are less duplicate copies).
• adding a “Graphics system delay” in Advanced settings dialog that must be adjusted to suit the projector/graphics subsystem. (Previously hard coded to 17 ms. Now defaulting to 25 ms (suits Canon and Benq). Set to 50 ms for Fujifilm).
• adding a separate graphics system delay for driven shooting in Advanced settings dialog.
• reworked application: Now Ogre and OpenGL can coexist – leads to faster program startup and faster switching between scenarios or shots.
• don’t play “Analyze done” sound any more when shooting, it just disturbed the sound of the rifle/shotgun.
• fix: Freeing OpenGL background images when switching to a new scenario (computer could run out of memory if stepping through a lot of scenarios)
• debug work: Making it possible to move around in the skeet world (requires “Show debug settings” in Advanced settings dialog)
• debug work: Making it possible to move the fixed target up/down vertically (requires “Show debug settings” in Advanced settings dialog)
• added setting for disabling the FPS warning pop-up.
• adding “Cheat mode”: Ctrl + C keyboard shortcut to turn synthetic images on/off. A “C” in the windows title bar will indicate synthetic images on.
• moose can move head up/down/left/right when idle/walking, would previously only move ears.
• renaming the integrated Ogre scenarios with a “Template” suffix and removing all trees/plants/hunters/poles for them.
• renaming shotgun shot sizes from “US #x” to “EU #x”.
• adjusting default shot statistics settings for Pheasant and Grouse.
• translation: Swedish, French, German and Hungarian updated.

Release 5.2 – April 2021

• adding shot reaction to the roe deer, depending on the hit zone.
• adding the concept of hit regions and changing the logic for calculating the hit: if more than one region is hit, the highest prioritized one is used
• improvement: huge change in Ogre animals animation system. Now more than two animations can be blended, making it even more realistic.
• improvement: Ogre animals can now be affected by a second injury shot.
• improvement: enlarging the Replay line, and changing the spear color to red.
• adding an option to remove barking dogs for BIG GAME disciplines.
• improvement: BIG GAME targets are now shootable near the edges of the screen.
• adding XML merge functionality for the settings file when doing an upgrade installation.
• fix: when bear is attacking, the end animation is now shown entirely.
• fix: Ogre animals were sometimes misses at its outmost edges (when outside their bounding box).

We hope you will enjoy all the benefits of this new release!