Trickshots are the amusing side of the game that takes us away from the usual gameplay and lets us use our imagination to come up with some stunning and complicated looking shots that we wouldn't normally be able to utilize during a normal frame of iSnooker.


Setting Up Tips by Yo

Now you know were to aim, and how to fine tune your aiming after every shot. Before you need to aim, you will
need to set up the balls first. My advice on this is: If you have a complex shot which involves multiple combinations, set up just the first 2 balls first, make sure they go were you want them to, press undo, set up the next ball try the shot again, see if it is going the right way, if it is press undo again and add your next ball, make sure this one goes well before adding another one, and so on. Try the shot after every ball you add onto the table, if you add all the balls first and then try the shot for the first time and see it is no where near what you intended, it is just going to
turn out to be a waste of time, take it step by step and that way you can see where the problem ball is.

If you are trying to line up 2 balls with a pocket, you will find that in some cases they just will not align in that direction, and the only thing you can do about this is remove both balls from the table add them again and try the setup again. Also if you intend to add more than 2 balls in that line up I suggest you do as I advised above,
namely after you place one ball into the combination try the shot to make sure it goes into the pocket, and then
add another ball. When you have a configuration of balls that go the way you want them to, save the practice file,
even if it is just a small part of the whole trick shot. Constantly save your practice files, as you can sometimes
spend a lot of time setting up the balls and by mistake move one from its spot, and you have to spend a lot of time again putting it back in the same spot. It is practically impossible to put a ball in the exact same spot twice, so once
you get a configuration that does something interesting, even if not what you intended, save it, a new trick shot
can be born from it. Quite a few of the shots I did started of with a different idea in my mind.

If you come up with a good trick shot but you put a wrong color ball somewhere, and you are afraid to move it
and replace it because you might not be able to put it back in the exact same place here is what you should do:
Place 3 to 4 balls around it like in the screen shot, remove the ball and you now have space were you can put the different color ball, and it will be in the exact same spot. Remove the balls you placed around it and you have successfully changed the color of the ball without changing its position.

In this case the 2 balls would not be in line with the pocket (unless they are touching), If i try to move the yellow
even a little bit to the left , it will be too far and still not be aligned. This is a situation that you are going to find in some cases.

This shot normally only has 2 reds, but if you really want one of them to be black you need to surround the red
with 3-4 balls which are touching it and them remove it from between them. You then take a black ball and put it between the colours and then remove them. This system is similar to what snooker referee's us when they pick up
the cue ball to clean it. .

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