Flupper

the correct answer is “as little as possible”

the real answer is I’m a tech specialist at an elementary school, 500 or so computers, 2-300 ipads, 40ish classroom audio/video systems, bunch of printers and stuff and whatever else they think may be “tech” are my responsibility. other “tech” include staplers, file cabinets, desks, assembling sh…[Read more]

I guess you win some, you lose some:

on the physics I will quote Clarke:” Main goal was to receive very gentle ball movements on the flippers, more precise aiming and shots. Even tip passes are possible”

I did reduce the brightness on the apron because of the new brighter ball and scratches images. If you just like these then it is easy to expo…[Read more]

I think your test is affected by the fact that the inserts for the test have only green in them. Only when there is sufficiently enough red and blue in the image, there is substantially effect by changing the color to say orange.

and anothere feature: as said the color reflected on balls is the left one. Not mentioned yet is that the intensity of…[Read more]

@Nemo: So viewing angle of the iiyama x4071uhsu-b1 from the right/left side is good enough for a cabinet? In reviews they say it dims quite a bit.

Has anybody taken a look at this new 40″  monitor? It is 4k and has 75hz refresh rate, and is

https://iiyama.com/gl_en/products/prolite-le4041uhs-b1/

Or this one? It is older but 100euro cheaper:

https://iiyama.com/gl_en/products/prolite-x4071uhsu-b1/

Yes, with several improvements:

• lamp has a normal map in VPX, so you have a gold lamp with real detailed reflections (and a completely new texture)
• Genie is retextured; I am still looking for higher res images, so if anybody knows someone who knows someone… Or someone willing to take new photos of the genie from all angles…
• ramps are…

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Ehhm, I am also working on a new version of a mod for Totan (but long away from a release):

All true, but also: the ball is lit up by all the insert lights, that is best visible with a darker ball.

And as Haunt said: try tweaking it. I started table building by not being happy with a table and trying to improve. If you want a real visible ball, here is a way to start learning how vpx works: try to implement the glowball code from Diner…[Read more]

I was only able to play a single game on my lunch break, but what a fantastic table. I do have one question though, is there a reason you went with the ww_lh6 rom? That rom struggled mightily on my system. I went and changed the table to use the ww_l5 rom that I had used in previous versions of this table and did not have those same issues. I’m h…[Read more]

It’s a very nice table.

How can I fix it?

Could you give some more information? like:

what version of VPX (I use official 10.4)?
Other recent tables are all working?
What rom?
everything else is working, like other mechanical sounds?
Is it at startup or after some time playing?
Did you alter the table in some way?

I love Whitewater and own a real one. Flupper and Co have done an amazing job, but…………… OMG those sidewalls are aweful. The sidewalls are black on a real cab with much less wood grain or reflection. It kind of jumps out, when the rest of the table looks so good and realistic. The sidewall reflection option in the script is only for ramps and rails…[Read more]

I did the same, here is my version (Blender):

http://vpforums.org/imghost/213/skullfinal.jpg

Import this jpg in VPX and assign it to the skull. With a material like this:

http://vpforums.org/imghost/213/screenshot99.jpg

And set ”disable lighting” at 0,4 for the skull primitive.

Maybe there is a simpler way, but I would just use a separate timer which does this countdown and again enables the flash for one flash.

And for those in on the discussion about shadows: this time I made them on a separate layer, playfield is untouched. 

Difficult discussion this. The reason for me is ….:

– performance (removing one transparent layer gave 8% performance increase)

– i already had a transparent layer for the lighting, with some issues to get it working

– the original playfield is higher res than what is in Diner, I sent a whole resource package to Clark for future reference