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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vikingerik" data-source="post: 240483" data-attributes="member: 3745">I don't want more features from Farsight.  They'd be as canned and crudely implemented as the live catches.  And we wouldn't see them on any old tables for the same reason we never saw physics 3.0 other than the catches, that all the shooting angles would need to be retuned.For example, doing ball spin correctly means the spin the ball acquires during a flipper stroke: spin applied as the stroke begins affects its angle as it comes off the flipper, which ruins all the tuning.  Farsight couldn't feasibly retune dozens of tables and hundreds of shots to account for that.  At best, Farsight would hardcode spin values like those transfer points.Existing engines like Unity wouldn't be suitable for this.  A general-purpose engine wouldn't have the super-fine details of the interaction between rubber and metal that's so crucial for proper pinball behavior.  At best Unity would just recreate what TPA already has.</blockquote>

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