Trap expert panel

Opening and closing the panel

Open the panel from the expert button on the trap range. It appears as a dimmed overlay with two columns: range and environment settings on the left, trap trainer and session settings on the right.

Close it with Close in the footer or by pressing Esc. The panel also closes by itself when you start a training round or open gun calibration. Everything you change takes effect immediately — there is no separate apply step.

Buttons that switch something on stay highlighted in green while that setting is active. The highlights refresh a few times a second, so a setting changed from somewhere else in the program shows up here as well.

Range and clays

• Flash clays Toggle

  Makes the clays flash so they are easier to pick up against a busy background. Useful for beginners and for demonstrations.

• Snow Toggle

  Turns falling snow on and off. It changes the look of the range only; the clays fly the same way.

• Night shooting Toggle

  Switches the range to floodlit night: the sun is turned off, the spotlights around the bunker come on, and the sky goes black. Press it again to return to daylight.

• Gun calibration

  Closes the panel and opens gun calibration so you can check or reset the point of aim. It is ignored if a calibration is already running.

• Slowmotion speed 10% to 100%

  Sets the speed of the whole simulation. The selected step stays highlighted. 100% is normal speed; anything below it counts as slow motion and is shown as such in the session. Lower steps are good for showing a shooter where the shot string met the clay.

Backgrounds

Three controls choose what the shooter sees behind the clays. They work together: picking a named set or a free background overrides whatever was showing before.

• Filter background on country

  Narrows the named sets to one country. Leave it on All countries to see the full list.

  Argentina · Azerbaijan · Cyprus · France · Italy · Peru · Qatar · Spain · Sweden · United Kingdom · USA

• Background (named sets)

  Loads a complete, prepared range — terrain, sky and surroundings matched to a real venue. This is the normal way to change the range. The list starts on Select.., which does nothing until you pick a set.

• Background (free selection)

  Picks a single terrain or one of the photo backgrounds on its own, without the rest of a named set. Choosing here clears the named set selection.

Bunker

• Toggle bunker color

  Steps through the available bunker colours. Use it when the bunker blends into the background and the shooter loses the clay at launch.

• Bunker front wall Toggle

  Shows or hides the front wall of the bunker. With the wall hidden you can see the throwers work, which helps when explaining the machine layout.

Special training and sky

• NVT Toggle

  Turns on no-visual-target training: the clay is hidden for part of its flight so the shooter has to keep the gun moving on the line instead of chasing the target. An advanced drill — it makes a good shooter better and confuses a new one.

• Toggle fog

  Each press thickens the fog one step. After the densest step the next press clears it completely, so the button cycles from clear to heavy and back.

• Toggle sun position

  Steps the sun through five positions, from high overhead to low behind the stands. Use it to put the light where a shooter finds it hard, or to move a glare off the target line.

• Toggle day sky

  Switches the sky and clouds to the daytime set.

• Toggle night sky

  Switches the sky and clouds to the night set. Combine it with night shooting for a full floodlit session.

Trap trainer

The trap trainer sets the same angle and height on all three throwers and starts a training round from stand 3, where every shooter gets the same target again and again. It is the tool for drilling one specific target instead of shooting a full round of mixed ones.

Replay and recording

• Auto replay all Toggle

  Plays a replay after every shot. Turning it off also turns off misses-only replay.

• Auto replay misses only Toggle

  Plays a replay only when the shooter misses. Switching it on turns on auto replay as well, so you do not have to press both.

• Toggle tracerlines on replay Toggle

  Draws the shot line in the replay so the shooter can see where the barrel was pointing in relation to the clay.

• Disable microphone Toggle

  Stops the microphone from releasing targets on a call. Use it in a noisy room, during a demonstration, or when the mic picks up a neighbouring lane. With the microphone off, targets have to be released the other way.

• Stop at tracker start movement Toggle

  Ends the recording at the moment the barrel starts to move, so the replay begins at the shooter's first movement instead of at the call.

Quick change shooter

The dropdown at the bottom of the right column switches to another shooter in the squad without leaving the range. Use it when someone shoots out of turn, or when you take a shot yourself to show something.

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