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Virtual Pool is a 3D, first-person sports simulation video game series with computer simulations of cue sports which was developed by Celeris. The games in the series simulate pool, snooker and carom billiards. The Virtual Pool series focuses on accurate simulation and improving the player's ability to play the sport in real life. Virtual Pool releases are sold with a money back guarantee to improve a player's external game.[1]


The main selling point of the Virtual Pool-series games is that they were designed and tested by programmers, physicists and professional players. According to the game box, its simulation was "guaranteed to improve your actual pool play or your money back".[1][2] The series was endorsed by professional players Mike Sigel and Jeanette Lee and equipment manufacturers Viking Cues, Imperial International, Schön Custom Cues, Creative Innovations and Joss Cues.[1][3]



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The games' graphics capabilities vary by platform to platform, but their environmental realism (such as a pool hall) is on par with the graphics in other contemporary rendered games (like first-person shooters). The games' use of first-person perspective, rather than using an overhead view, contributed to the series' success.[4]


The complexity of the games increased over time, from Virtual Pool's four game types to Virtual Pool 4's 18 pool games on championship and bar tables, snooker, English billiards, four carom games and four pub pool eight-ball games. Other improvements included more venues and computerized opponents, equipment-upgrade purchases, customizable tables, video tutorials, two career-play modes and a trick-shot library. Online capability includes pool rooms with multiple players and spectators, tournaments, ladders, a social network with player profiles, friends, statistics and shot uploads.


Celeris, creators of the Virtual Pool franchise, created their first title (FlixMix, a DOS jigsaw puzzle game) in 1993.[5] After this release, Celeris published their first 3D game (Virtual Pool) in 1995. The game had four pool modes: straight pool, eight-ball, nine-ball and rotation pool.[6] With pool world champion Lou Butera, it guaranteed to improve the player's pool game (a guarantee which continued through the main-series Virtual Pool titles).[7]


The game was successful, and Virtual Pool 2 (with a wider range of pool games, including three-ball and bank pool) was produced in 1997. Virtual Pool 2, with improved graphics, was released exclusively for PC. Over 120 AI opponents and online multiplayer capability were introduced, with Mike Sigil joining Butera for this game.


Virtual Pool 3 was released in 2000 for PC, but was later ported to the PlayStation and PlayStation Network. VP3 featured snooker, carom and billiards games in addition to pool. The game, endorsed by women's world champion Jeanette Lee, was released and distributed by Interplay Entertainment and Global Star Software. It received the highest Metacritic score of any main-series title .mw-parser-output div.crossreferencepadding-left:0(see Reception).


Virtual Pool 4 has mode and graphical upgrades from its previous incarnation (including snooker, billiards and pool modes) and the ability to change table size and handicaps for certain players. The game also has a trick shot mode, with standard trick shots and the ability to set up new ones.






Although it is primarily a PC game,[a] console versions have been released. Celeris released Virtual Snooker, a snooker game with the same engine as Virtual Pool, in 1996.[14] It contained only snooker games (no pool).


The Virtual Pool series has received a moderate-to-good reception from critics, with Virtual Pool 3 the highest-rated game.[32] A GameSpot review of Virtual Pool Hall praised its game mechanics, particularly the ball-collision physics.[8] Virtual Pool 2 received a perfect score (100) from the German PC Player magazine.[33] However, some reviews of the series called the games "boring" due to the nature of pool simulation.


My VMWare says that my video storages capacity is 26,14 TB, and I have used 26TB. This is like that since I created it a couple a months ago. This available space (140GB) will never change (and has never changed) as it is the space we defined for the recording virtual machine hard disks, and that is unchangeable.


Virtual Pool is an accurate simulation of straight pool, eight-ball, nine-ball, and rotation pool. The game is viewed in first-person 3D perspective, in contrast to most earlier pool games which featured a fixed overhead view.


Virtual Pool is the definitive pool simulation game that actually teaches novice players how to play and even promises to improve the game of the pool shark. Developed by a team of physicists and professional pool players, Virtual Pool brings the game to life with the highest degree of accuracy. Balls roll, skid, collide and move on a fully rendered 3D controlled pool table that mirrors reality.


I've messed around with the FOV, camera angles, etc., but the problem persists. I can play a ton of Virtual Pool 4, then go play real life pool, and have no problem with my aim being off. It translates well (and in fact, I attribute some aspect of my shotmaking abilities to so many hours in VP4). But shooting just feels off in SP.


So VP4 and Shooters Pool fall in my budget. I tried VP4 online and it is just like shooterspool but the physics feel a bit too light compared to real life pool. Shooterspool on the other hand seems for me just like real life. Also i woud buy shooters pool more because it has more games and im not a snooker player if that is why vp4 in considerd better.


MSC will be going full blown virtual pool. Civmars will be flown from/to their ship assignments from their home of record. All civmars will be required to have a government credit card in order to use the virtual pool from their home of record. Those without the government credit card will be allowed to use the East & West pools until they get their credit card. This also applies to civmars who lives abroad.


We're trying to add 4 additional 2TB physical disks to our MSA virtual pool. It's telling us we can't add anything except another virtual disk pool. So we have to create a new virtual pool and assign it a RAID (6), which means the storage space gets cut in half, then it can be added.


Here's one reason to avoid the HP MSA 2040. You can't add a drive without tearing down the entire SAN and rebuilding. Sounds crazy right? If you pay for the storage virtualization license so that you can use SSDs as cache and mix drives of different performance, that is exactly what happens.


Things may have changed. This is a question I would ask directly before buying or configuring a new SAN. The last time I worked on it, linear pools allowed drives to be added, but virtual pools did not. I don't think the tiered storage had much to do with that. (Bear with me since I'm trying to remember a job I did 3 years ago.) Maybe the HP Storage Guy can chime in here.


The MSA 2050 does not allow Disk-Group expansion. You can not add a single disk to a disk-group. Therefore, when you need to expand the capacity of a Pool, you need to add a new disk-group. The disk-group can be part of the same pool and the volumes will start using the new capacity and the existing data will be balanced between the disk-groups. This is 'wide-striping' and will result in better performance across all volumes as now the number of spindles working on an I/O request will have increased.






Another thing to think about is the additional benefit, or lack thereof, when you choose to use two pools with smaller numbers of drives in your arrays / disk groups vs. only using ONE pool with fully populated arrays. Feel free to put your disks into ONE pool with as many 16 drive standard tier drives and adequately sized archival tier arrays. 




Finally, Put the big drives in your archive tier. Use those mid-line full height drives SAS for your bulk storage. Opt for lower capacity fully populated arrays at the standard tier over a standard tier with a few large drives in a pool.


VP offers an interesting recounting of the evolution of the game of billiards throughout the years. This feature is very informative and quite amusing, done in Pythonesque fashion. A multimedia overview of the game's options and rules for each of the 4 games are also available, rendering the printed manual somewhat obsolete. There is also a 5-minute overview of the basics of pool conducted by Lou Butera, a former world champion pool player, who also performs a slew of trick shots that you can marvel at.


Playing pool is what VP is really all about, and once you've gone through the tutorial and seen most of the trick shots that Lou performs, there's nothing left but to step up to the (virtual) table and rack a few balls. You can select to play with a friend, whether in the same room or over a network or modem, play against the computer, or simply just practice.


VP uses the mouse and keyboard to simulate the physical act of stroking a cue, and this works pretty successfully for the most part. The mouse is used to aim the cue, adjust the point of contact of the tip to the cueball, and to actually hit the cueball. Various keys can be pressed to raise the butt of the cue, exagerate the force of the stroke (for break shots mainly), and make finer adjustments to tip placement, among other things. An interesting feature is the tracking mode, enabled by pressing 'T' while in practice mode (only). In this mode lines are drawn depicting the path of the ball should the cue ball be hit at that moment. This makes for near-perfect pool playing, which quickly becomes boring. Its main function is to teach you what angles are possible in a given situation.

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