Now that Pinball X has official topper support (pictures and videos) on a dedicated screen, we can create and use topper media correctly.
Before you needed to use them with your “DMD” screen (Pinball X only supported media on 3 screens at the time), but now you can use ANY screen you want…so that means support for a 4th screen specifically for toppers. This is a big deal for those of use who use a monitor for our DMD.
Since you are able to specify the “size”, “screen #”, and “position” of your Topper media, there is no reason to have Topper pics and videos with the extra black space on the bottom. If you only have the actual Topper image, then Pinball X will make it fit however you want it to….just like it does with DMD media. Some people may use different resolutions, aspect ratios, etc for their topper screen, and the current way the images are made won’t work well in all situations. Having just the image (with no black bottom) will work for everyone.
As a result of this excellent new feature in Pinball X, I am finally able to create media for my cabinet MUCH easier, and the way I always wanted to. I don’t have an actual topper screen, but my dual middle screen in my cabinet has an extra screen space (originally used for marquees, control panels, extra video displays, etc) that can make great use of these Toppers. I no longer have to combine two video elements into one video. Now I can display DMD and Topper videos on my middle 3rd screen, and it works great!
I have to crop the images a little bit to make it look better, but most of them look great. I also have decided to use videos, and movie trailers, for some tables that will still display during gameplay. It looks pretty good.
If only we had a way to display videos during VPX gameplay (like UltraDMD), but be able to play videos of ANY resolution.
I will post a video of what it looks like when I’m done.
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