Drano49:
hello, i would like to ask again, since i have been curious about this question for sometime. when, if ever, will the game for your personal computer be able to select a left handed avatar, since i play from the left side when i do get a chance to hit the links for real, i would like to be able to experience it playing WGT. will this be available sometime in the near future?????.
Thank you,
drano49
I would say never and here is why.
The rest of this post is a copy of a post I made over 5 years ago. It was actually a copy of s post made by a mod WGTniv.,
Here is a copy of a post by WGTniv explaining why there is no left handed avatars.
Hey everybody,
We do hear you lefties on this matter, but there is a technical
hurdle we must overcome in order to be able to do it. Unfortunately,
it's not a simple matter of reversing the Avatar because there are other
parts of the avatar that you may not have noticed before.
For example, if knock your drive into some brush on Bethpage you may
notice some "extra" grass around your feet. That's called a stencil. We
use the stencil to make your avatar look like he's standing in the grass
rather than on top of it. The stencils we have created are designed to
interact with the ground surface from the perspective of a right handed
player, so the extra "grass" is displayed (appropriately) at their
feet.
Each and every hole is thoroughly mapped so that the right stencil is
used in the right places. The trouble with mirroring really becomes
visible in cases where the avatar would be standing in the fairway (on
the far right side) and the ball is in the rough. Those lies/stencils
are all mapped specifically for right-handers so that (in this case) no
stencil is drawn at your feet because your avatar is standing in the
fairway. The exact opposite occurs on the left side of the fairway
where your avatar may be standing in brush instead, but the ball lies in
the fairway. Even though the ball is in the fairway, the avatar is
standing in deep grass and a stencil is used where the avatar itself is
standing. In this case, if the avatar was left handed and in the right
hand rough you'd see him standing in the rough, but the rough stencil
would be basically be growing out of the fairway (where a righty would
normally stand). Obviously that's not appropriate nor desired. =)
Along with creating left handed avatars we will need to remap the
stencils for lefties on every hole to avoid those odd situations I
described above. On top of all of this we will still need to rework the
avatar animations, the club animations (all clubs are drawn right
handed at the moment) and we also must consider whether or not we would
need to completely reverse the GUI itself to provide a right-to-left
meter/interface instead of a left-to-right meter/interface.
We do plan to implement this feature eventually, but this should help
you guys gain a little understanding about the process and see that
there's a little bit more than meets the eye here.
If you want to play with a left handed avatar you can play on mobile. There are left handed avatars on mobile.