VPX is definitely a big step up in the right direction. I especially like that the table view/layback etc controls that can be moved in realtime (aka Future Pinball) and the day/night slider is excellent. These two features alone are worth the price of admission.
Performance requirements are more so higher hardware IS required to get comparable frame rates as VP 9.x/physmod.
What I don’t understand is there were not selections added to the options for VP/B2S/DOF and to hide DMD (i.e.: Controller.hidden=1). I would have thought these would have been easy additions to the options area to prevent people from having to edit scripts when first downloading a table. I see some authors are using a variable on the hidden flag but not all do (and I got mixed results and ended up forcing it off anyway). Just thought it was odd that these two settings didn’t make the menu when they are essential to check on every new table download. In fact it may have been nice to have a ‘Table Options Section’ that allowed table authors to place all table options to cover other things like toy mods etc so scripts didn’t have to be searched through and edited.
Tables look great and play great but I do suspect there are still some surface/ball movement issues still in there somewhere. Occasionally the ball against some surfaces does some strange things (Sticky magnet type movement). Maybe part of early table designs that could be corrected in the future (i.e.: These issues are probably more table/surface design issues than core ball physics issues – however that’s just a guess).
Overall though, very impressed with VPX.
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