Johnny T

Thanks for that. I cracked it in the end after standing on the shoulders of giants (i.e. some other software that I found). I re-wrote it to use the FastLED library and all works brilliantly now.

Thanks for your help.

I’m a massive fan of Jaws (film, book, pinball!) and I love playing this on FP. However, on VPX the physics seem a little ‘off’ to me? Like the ball is really heavy? Not sure if that’s down to personal taste or not but wondered if anyone has tweaked the physics and, if so, if you’d share what settings you changed?

It’s a great conversion made all…[Read more]

TerryRed wrote:
DOF is completely initiated from the table’s startup (not the front-end). The only reasons it wouldn’t work from a front-end is:

• the front-end, or another program (DOFLinx) has a DOF session still open preventing the PinEvent dof session from being used
• the front-end is changing security / admin access somehow and that is wha…

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TerryRed wrote:
Newest DOFLinx now lets you change what process will activate DOFLinx at any time (not just on startup). This is a much better option to use then the hold activation!

https://www.vpforums.org/index.php?showtopic=45152#entry458169

What a great update!! Thanks for letting me know Terry. You’re a star!!

TerryRed wrote:
Update DOF R3++

Even if you think you have it installed… you MUST have the newest version.

http://mjrnet.org/pinscape/dll-updates.html

Update your DOF Config Tool Configs:

http://configtool.vpuniverse.com/login.php

Well, I got to the bottom of it. I followed what you said Terry and the suggestions from Outhere and, one of t…[Read more]

Yep, this was originally intended to just be an arcade cabinet for MAME and some of the old Atari stuff.

Then I discovered VPX, and then Future Pinball and then I discovered Terry’s videos and then I discovered DOF and then I discovered DOFLinx and then PinEvent and then, before I knew what was happening, I’d ordered 7 contactors and a 8 relay…[Read more]

outhere wrote:

Johnny T wrote:
Yep but that would mean editing about 20 tables as oppose to editing 4 (Good suggestion though )

Not sure what you mean

All I was meaning was that I’m using Launchbox as a frontend. Within each ‘game’ within Launchbox you can stipulate an application to run on startup and shut down.

I’ve edited the PinEvent…[Read more]

Yep but that would mean editing about 20 tables as oppose to editing 4

(Good suggestion though )

Will do Terry. Thanks

Just a follow up… I managed to get rid of the error by delaying the HOLD_ACTIVATION going off… so my new script (after leaving a PinEvent table) is:

timeout /t 5
cd /d D:LaunchBoxEmulatorsDirectOutput
DOFLinxMsg.exe HOLD_ACTIVATION=0

Unfortunately my DOF devices don’t work on PinEvent tables at the moment even with DOFLinx turned off so I’ll…[Read more]

Tom wrote:
I had this running fine and last night I installed doflinx and got that working. Then today I went to play a FP table through BAM FPloader and it’s a far away POV, the backglass is smaller and the pinevent pup stuff is not working. Any ideas what may have changed it

Hi Tom,

I know very little about all this stuff (in fact, I found y…[Read more]

Hi Outhere,

I have been through the guide a few times (and the videos that Terry has done) and that has got me this far.

However, this is the first of me using the DOFLinx “pause” function so I must have missed that info. I’ll go back through the guide this evening after work when I get back on the machine and I’ll also just double check that…[Read more]

I didn’t

Why didn’t I think of that…!

I’m not back at the cabinet until tomorrow so I can try it then. If it works I suppose I’ll have to shut DOFLinx down completely when I run PinEvent tables and then fire it back up when I’ve finished?

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Thalamus wrote:
It should work. Make sure that you update your dof profile, also, look at under keys/dof that it is set to both.

Yep, it’s set to both. Must be my ears. I’ll try turning up the PC volume and see if that helps.

Thanks for your help (probably a good sign about my contactors if they are loud enough to drown out the PC sound )

Cheers :)

Thanks Terry. Yep, PinEvent seems the way to go as those tables play flawlessly with everything working great.

Looking forward to more tables getting converted to PinEvent tables.

Thanks again for the info