Deadly Weapon (Gottlieb 1990) – WIP

This is my first WIP thread and i’m not really sure where this will go. I’m not a huge fan of WIP’s but this is the last full table i’m doing so i thought you can not hate what you don’t know, let’s try it. Maybe something good will come out of this, maybe it’s getting on my nerves real quick, i don’t know! We’ll see.

First of all i want to thank 32assassin and bodydump for making a rock solid VPX table! I needed a table with an excellent base and found 32a’s 2k version of DW. I really think that this is one of his best tables and i really fell in love with that fake Lethal Weapon theme. It’s a great single level shooter with some nice sounds and rules. It feels more like a mid 80’s table which i really like!

My first plan was to do what i always do and make this table 4k ready with some renderings, primitives, new gameplay and lights. At the end i found my self sitting in front of a full 8k Blender file where evrything was upscaled, rebuild or cleaned up. Not a screw that i didn’t touch. 32assassin was once again very generous when i asked him if i could upload the finished product as a rebuild from scratch or a v2.0 of his table. I got his permission to upload it under my name. I would not have uploaded this one as a mod for a couple of reasons. But don’t worry, i won’t go through all of that again! I have to say that it’s ALMOST a rebuild from scratch because right now it’s still the old 32a script that is running and the Gottlieb logo on the bumper caps is still bodydumps!

I made the 8k PF with my, what i call, upscale and repair method. To make this work you need a 100% clean PF with no JPEG artifacts and / or no sharpening filters applied. So thanks to bodydump for his professional ultra clean PF, that made the upscale possible! Brand new insert meshes were made and i rendered them once again with the Blender material that i got from flupper. I still love it! Thanks man!

The plastics were redrawn from scratch with new, more accurate patterns. I kept the shape / layout from the original authors because it already matched the PF. Getting good top down images of the table is a pain so hats off to whoever is responsable for the layout. Getting everything together at the end would be wrecking my nerves big time.

I bought the metal rail decals and scanned them in 

All resources will be uploaded with the table for future use (8k ready with a little clean up here and there)

Overall time for upscaling was around 100 hrs.

All meshes were rebuild, cleaned and i also made a lot of new ones.

I’m still looking for a 4k or better 8k PF wood image with a nice looking shooter lane and i still need a texture image for the black wood on the table. But i will only do the extra work if it’s significantly better then what i have.

Before somebody is asking, the table is at about the 60-70%  mark so there is still about 100 hrs of work ahead. I won’t expect it to be done before summer.

OK, here are a few Blender images, definetly not as good as fluppers or g5k’s stuff, but i’m pretty happy with the limited time i have. Feel free to give some constructive criticism! Keep in mind, that i’m using this file to create textures for VP. There are no light bulbs and i still haven’t done the cut outs in the PF. I haven’t done the light state of with only the BG as a light source yet. The material of the little flasher globes is horrible! Mostly because it’s creating a lot of noise! There is still some cleaning to do on the apron image.

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