Schreibi34

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I didn’t use a second colour on purpose. I wanted to Show that doing your homework in Photoshop is way more important then fiddling around with the lights for hours and days like i did in the past. The difference between the inserts is really minimal in this test. The most important difference is the intensity! Like i…[Read more]

OK, i made a few tests to get a better feel for that lighting colour thing. I used some multifacet inserts and fooled around with the colours and brightness. I can’t relly tell if some settings are changing the contrast of the image so i removed this from the Wiki and replaced it with images from the test. So if you guys want to have a…[Read more]

One more try to explain what i see.

The left colour lights dark pixels. The brighter the left colour, the brighter the dark pixels. Haven’t tried it yet but it should be the same for the right colour just for bright pixels.

I didn’t code that stuff, i can just share what i see!

The darker a colour of whatever image, material or texture on the table the more the left colour will show. I don’t know what hack causes this but if you take one of those multifacet inserts and use a bright colour on the right and fool around with the brightness of the left colour, you can see how the contrast changes. The darker lines will go…[Read more]

This is not the Schreibi34 Wiki! When you read to the end i ask other authors to add their stuff. There are people who know nothing about lighting. Thats why it’s called VPX lighting basics!

About the left colour, yes, the ball is a darker object on the table and if you use a rich orange on the left the ball will be orange near the light. Thats…[Read more]

Lighting basics Wiki is up:

https://vpinball.com/wiki/visual-pinball-knowledge-base/vpx-lighting-basics/

I can write an updated and more detailed tutorial.

Is there already a wiki where i can add this stuff? If not, somebody got to help me out where i should put this.

I made a little lighting tutorial for my 32a Hot Tip mod. It’s a bit outdated but should include helpfull hints.

A couple of things that are not in the tutorial:

Falloff = How big the visible light is (red circle in the editor)

Falloff power = How fast the light fades towards the outer limit. Low number = big bright area in the middle fading…[Read more]

Kids?!……………….. Holy shit………………

This is such a joke! I got it running again. I don’t know how it happend, but the 3rd monitor was set to a zoom of 125%. But only in the Windows settings! Not in the NVidia control panel. 4 hours in the trashcan. Sorry guys!

No luck! do i need freezy’s .dll’s for a 3rd monitor? Never had those in the VPinmame folder and it always worked!

Screenres.txt never changes! These are my settings:

The numbers match the resolution of the screens. I still don’t know where the Problem is. One Thing is messed up and thats the monitor numbers in Win10. 1 is PF, 2 is DMD and 3…[Read more]

Will try that! Thanks!

I’m a little dummy! You can’t set the monitor number for the 3rd screen! After a reboot the problem was back.

What i have found is that PinballX works fine on the 3rd screen. I have set it to topper monitor. When i uncheck “hide topper” and start the table from PBX the DMD displays fine (screenshot). Unfortunatly i’m using this monitor to display…[Read more]

The monitor number for the 3rd screen was missing in screenres.txt. I don’t know what messed it up because the rest of the numbers were correct.

Screenshot

OK, i decided to put this here because i’m not sure if this is caused by the same bug.

After updating everything to the official 10.5 release (latest sambuild and b2s server) about 70% of the time when i start a table from the editor or PinX the DMD on the 3rd screen is to big. Deleting everything rom related didn’t help. Right clicking and…[Read more]

Wow, what an update wrd!

Good decission to go back to an already finished table and update it. Especially on a legendary table like Dr. Dude! It looks and plays awesome. Maybe a bit to fast for my old eyes but thats my fault! I really like when a table has some depth and you can see the elevated things more easily.

This time i want to not just…[Read more]

Solution I think is getting a generation back that was raised properly perhaps? Like a generation that understands… no your not intitled to everything and sorry but the truth may actually hurt!

Well said!

Seems to be the same all over the world!

aaawww…. that was very sweet…. love ya buddy….

this is perfect timing for this funny shit… I got this message from an admin in one of the FB groups just today

this isnt a joke….

“I respect the work that you do for the community but that’s all. And if I didn’t had that little respect I’d kicked you off the group a long time ago since most of…[Read more]

What do you mean! I just told him that i don’t know anything about a moded rom. I’m not the most informed guy when it comes to roms. Is there a better one then the standard vector?