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Looks really good, man. Great work!

Ben Logan2 wrote:
Bord,

I absolutely love this table. I read the thread since release 1.1. Is anyone else seeing a problem whereby the kicker in upper left hand corner sends the ball straight down the middle? Nudging won’t save it. I tried tweaking the kicker settings (orientation and scatter angle), but they don’t seem to correct the pro…

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Still hoping someone will be interested in scripting this so it can get done.

In the meantime I was doing some asset research and found two major differences between the flyer/promotional image of Little Chief and nearly every production game photo I can find.

The flyer has black rails and a black top apron. Production games have white.

The…[Read more]

@dark, thanks. I actually have a different toy request that may interest you more in the near future so I’ll save my cache for that.

I’m sure I can do this thing but was hoping one existed or that someone more skilled than me wouldn’t waste the full day of trial and error I’ll burn.

Thanks, @rawd. I actually looked at your Triple Strike since it fit the era. The mesh you attached is the 8 pointed cap. The texture image you sent is the right type but I don’t have a mesh that is formed like that.

That location is a dream come true. I used to live in the north woods of Wisconsin in my early-mid twenties and I miss it dearly. Something about a giant snowfall felling all the progress and innovation of man is strangely heartening.

I had the  fortunate position of sitting back and watching @zigbane and @brandonlaw work on this project. Nothing but positivity and hard work behind the scenes. Really a pleasure to be a part of.  Thanks guys!

This and Frontier are very high on my revamp wish list. Two of my favorite pinball games of all time. Slight possibility of it happening later in the year if I can get a few other things off my plate.

Glad you like it. It is very fun as-is.

Thanks, @dark. Your explanation makes sense to me. Great video. Hard to imagine learning modeling/texturing before youtube.

Heavy preference for the yellow here. White in second place.

That yellow really works with the art and the vibe of Gottliebs in that era. I tend to favor stock colors but not here.

Dark wrote:
I rendered both tangent and world normals bump maps for the turret in the event we want to animate it rotating. I’ve set the pivot point on the tank turret so it can be easily animated turning on the tank.

@dark, can you give me the cliff notes on tangent vs. world maps. I’m not familiar with the difference.

Very fun to watch this come together. Thanks for sharing progress pics.

Dark wrote:
I got the tank about ready for the table now:

https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/tank-toy-from-segas-goldeneye-pinball-be4e6cdac1ea4d07881af5fe9684942c

Nice model, @dark!

Congratulations! Can’t imagine how nervous that moment would be. Gotta feel like your heading into the home stretch on this thing now.

Gonna put a rug under the pinball machine, Dude?

Amazing to see it lit up like that. That has to feel good.

Tom wrote:
If only I knew someone who was an amazing table author, maybe someone who is really Bord and needs a project. I hate to see people Bord. Oh well I will keep looking.

Lol. Ping me when everything is locked down and we can talk lighting options. Don’t knock yourself out setting up GI in VP.

ScreenSpace is an algorithm that makes some decent guesses to simulate reflection and light bounce. You can turn it off globally in your video settings (which is probably what you did if you didn’t notice a difference). On some games it works well, on some it is distracting at best. I tend not to turn it up above .5 on games where it mostly works.…[Read more]

Plays nice, Tom. I’ve really been enjoying it. Great job!

Question: is ScreenSpace meant to be set to 125? Makes the ball look like it is emerging from the gates of Hades.