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[destruk]

PROC VP 0.91



Version: 0.9.1
Category: Frontends and Addons

Author(s): Adam Preble, Gerry Stellenberg

Description:
Custom game development environment with support for Visual Pinball and the PROC board. With this you can create a full game with sound, dmd, rules, and run on a REAL machine or in VP. Read the README.TXT file for more info.


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Submitted by destruk, on Mar 11 2011, 05:46 PM

Edited by destruk, 11 March 2011 - 09:57 PM.

[destruk]

Thanks Noah for hosting this package!

[FDSystems]

This is far above my head & beyond my understanding.
Even so I´d like to thank Noah, for his wide vision & understanding of virtual pinball,
& the developers of what I suspect will open new horizons for authors & us simple players.

Edited by 1234fd, 12 March 2011 - 02:09 AM.

[Sabbat]

Thank you! Will love to see some originals with original dmd work

[highrise]

if anyone is able to code in python and would like to help me get the Sinister Six table running, please let me know. I don't have much time to develop my own system anymore so this could be really cool. The table is built, the rules are all in place and a lot of the DMD graphics are there too. So if anyone wants to help drop me a line.

[chriz]

this is awesome! thanks a lot!

I saw a youtube vid with a dmd-version of the machine - bride of pinbot. is it available yet?

cheers

[gstellenberg]

I saw a youtube vid with a dmd-version of the machine - bride of pinbot. is it available yet?

The JD and CFTBL projects Destruk included in the installer are example projects developed to show the capabilities of the system. Most other projects, including BoP 2.0, are being developed by P-ROC customers. I know the Dutch Pinball guys are open sourcing the BoP 2.0 code, but the game isn't complete yet, and I don't think they've shared any media files yet.

With this new installer, it should be relatively easy for people to start developing custom game code and interface it to existing and/or custom VP tables. The pyprocgame framework is a pinball development framework with most of the pinball related management logic already in place. You mostly just need to add your game specific rules.

- Gerry

[EalaDubhSidhe]

I saw a youtube vid with a dmd-version of the machine - bride of pinbot. is it available yet?

The JD and CFTBL projects Destruk included in the installer are example projects developed to show the capabilities of the system. Most other projects, including BoP 2.0, are being developed by P-ROC customers. I know the Dutch Pinball guys are open sourcing the BoP 2.0 code, but the game isn't complete yet, and I don't think they've shared any media files yet.

With this new installer, it should be relatively easy for people to start developing custom game code and interface it to existing and/or custom VP tables. The pyprocgame framework is a pinball development framework with most of the pinball related management logic already in place. You mostly just need to add your game specific rules.

- Gerry

Yes, this is totally what I had in mind for PROC usage. I mentioned this on the PROC forums; a complete original playfield design, built using WPC-alphanumeric hardware, but using VP as an interface. I'm hoping that this way, it'll be possible to bypass the rather arbitrary limitations WPC alone imposes, such as the 8x8 lamp matrix.

[Neo]

This sounds like it'll be a neat way to build original tables with a proper DMD in VP. Many Thanks.

Looks like I'll have a new language to learn.

[FrankT]

Sounds good, but looks a bit complicated. What's new that can be done with it? Any screenshots?

[gstellenberg]

Sounds good, but looks a bit complicated. What's new that can be done with it? Any screenshots?

Relative to what... the VB scripting in VP? pyprocgame is a feature-rich pinball framework, which makes it relatively easy to create a complete custom game application from scratch. For instance, it already has the logic to track a game (Number of players, players, extra balls, scores, etc). It has a large set of DMD classes making it relatively easy to create animations or pictures, programmatically, including compositing of multiple layers with transparency and alpha-blending (it comes with some tools to convert existing graphics files to .dmd files too). It has a number of modes to do many of the common functions in a pinball machine, like ball search, ball save, trough management, drop target management, etc.

pyprocgame also has some interesting ways of making it easy for people to write modes. For instance, if you define a method as "sw_targetA_active", then every time targetA is activated, that method will be called. Similarly, for the case where you want the ball to settle in a saucer or something, you can define a method as "sw_saucer_active_for_300ms", to make sure the ball is in there for 300ms before calling the code.

Read through the pyprocgame manual for more detail.

There are a number of projects being written on pyprocgame. The two highest profile at this stage are:

Custom JD software
BoP 2.0

If you read through the P-ROC forums, you can read about a number of other projects being developed. Many of the threads there have small pics/videos showing off various features.

As Destruk mentioned, if you develop new software for an existing WMS/Bally/Stern machine, you can run the exact same code on a real machine through a P-ROC board. For instance, the JD software in the movie above runs on my actual JD machine through a P-ROC board. Proof here.

- Gerry

[FrankT]

Ah! Sounds like this could revolutionise the pinball industry!! What are the odds Stern will have a look?

[destruk]

I think Stern has a look at everything that's out there - but they have their own code, their own system, and theirs is closed source... Maybe John Popadiuk or Jersey Jack would want to use PROC as a drop in basis for their machines though.

[Joe]

Sounds good, but looks a bit complicated. What's new that can be done with it? Any screenshots?

Relative to what... the VB scripting in VP? pyprocgame is a feature-rich pinball framework, which makes it relatively easy to create a complete custom game application from scratch. For instance, it already has the logic to track a game (Number of players, players, extra balls, scores, etc). It has a large set of DMD classes making it relatively easy to create animations or pictures, programmatically, including compositing of multiple layers with transparency and alpha-blending (it comes with some tools to convert existing graphics files to .dmd files too). It has a number of modes to do many of the common functions in a pinball machine, like ball search, ball save, trough management, drop target management, etc.

pyprocgame also has some interesting ways of making it easy for people to write modes. For instance, if you define a method as "sw_targetA_active", then every time targetA is activated, that method will be called. Similarly, for the case where you want the ball to settle in a saucer or something, you can define a method as "sw_saucer_active_for_300ms", to make sure the ball is in there for 300ms before calling the code.

Read through the pyprocgame manual for more detail.

There are a number of projects being written on pyprocgame. The two highest profile at this stage are:

Custom JD software
BoP 2.0

If you read through the P-ROC forums, you can read about a number of other projects being developed. Many of the threads there have small pics/videos showing off various features.

As Destruk mentioned, if you develop new software for an existing WMS/Bally/Stern machine, you can run the exact same code on a real machine through a P-ROC board. For instance, the JD software in the movie above runs on my actual JD machine through a P-ROC board. Proof here.

- Gerry

does it do valid play field (ball saves) as well the full ball saves?

[gstellenberg]

does it do valid play field (ball saves) as well the full ball saves?

I don't know what you mean. Can you define each type in more detail?

[FrankT]

What is this!? I tried installing P-ROC, but it made FP act up and Avast told me it was a suspicious file. Should it be doing that?

[destruk]

What is this!? I tried installing P-ROC, but it made FP act up and Avast told me it was a suspicious file. Should it be doing that?

What do you mean it made FP act up?
FP doesn't load external com objects.
I think you're a suspicious user... heh... it's safe, avast is known for false positives. Supposedly that issue was fixed a year ago, but you probably should trust other software than that.
http://www.dslreport...Gone-Mad-105773

[FrankT]

Oh... only it was being a bit funny last night. Might've been the card support I was installing on one of my tables.

[oooPLAYER1ooo]

awesome !

looks like i will have to learn python.

[unclewilly]

Guess it's time to learn python.
Can we try these with currently built games. Can I use the cftbl with my table?