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[freezy]

Hi all,

 

Thanks to NoEx' hacking skills we have now TPA support in dmdext:

 

 

It works by reading TPA's memory and pulling frames from the DMD's texture. Which is insanely fast and doesn't need any configuration on TPA's side at all.

 

As usual you can grab it here. Make sure you run it as admin and that's it, you should have it on your PinDMDv1-3 & PIN2DMD. There are still bugs (as you see in the screenshot, the last row is rendered slightly darker) and we still need to figure out how to deal with EM games and non 128x32 games like Frankenstein.

 

You can find the project site with more detailed information here.

 

Enjoy and don't hold back any cabinet shots / videos!

Edited by freezy, 29 April 2016 - 09:59 PM.

[roar]

Whoa... Another amazing update. Looking forward to getting this going!

[TerryRed]

I don't have a real DMD, but I am soo happy to see this mod for both TPA and PFX2. Good work! If one day I do get a real DMD, then this would certainly make me feel better for that purchase!

 

Yes, lets see some of your awesome cabs showing this off!

[freezy]

Finally got around setting up the free cam mod!

 

 

 

Master of the Universe on second game, haha!

Edited by freezy, 30 April 2016 - 04:51 PM.

[atarian]

Awesome stuff. That was quick! Can't wait to try it. Cheers freezy and NoEx.

[mpad]

You guys ROCK!!!

[Pinandy]

also from me a BIG thank you to noex, freezy and russdx.
it is really great what you have done.
Even if my cab isn't 100% finished it makes so much different when i play now the tables from TPA or FX2.

[CaptFlam]

 Great job Freezy ! Will try it with my pin2dmd soon. Just got my cabinet key for pbfx.
Now I have to add TPA to my cab. Will it also work with the --use-gray4 setting to
use colorize settings with TPA ?

[freezy]

 Yeah but you still need to set the color with the pin2dmd tool, didn't come around implementing that in dmdext yet.

[freezy]

New version v1.2.2.

 

Fixes last row bug in TPA (thanks NoEx) and has some performance improvments (thanks X-fact0r).

[Totaltimo]

Last evening I was trying for hours to bring the DMD to life with PinballArcade and PinballX.

The problem: dmdext waits for PinballArcade DX11, while PinballX starts the "normal" PinballArcade. Hence, dmdext waits for a DMD that never comes because of the wrong version of PinballArcade.

I already tried to rename PinballArcadeDX11.exe to PinballArcade.exe. PinballX really starts the DX11 version of PBA, but nevertheless, dmdext finds nothing to send to my PinDMD3.

 

Either dmdext gets an option to look for PinballArcade (without DX11) or PBX gets an option to start PBA DX11......

I got it to work when starting PBA DX11 directly from Steam whithout PBX.

 

What am I doing wrong?

 

Nevertheless: Thanks for this great tool, it works perfectly with my PinballFX2 !!! 

[freezy]

Hmm not sure why anyone would want to run the non-DX11 version of TPA. As far as I know, FreeCam mod also only works with DX11. Did you ask over at GameEx? Which version of TPA are people using when launching through PBX?

[Totaltimo]

PBX starts the non-DX11 Version of PBA. Or to be more precise: It does on my computer ;-)

If anyone can tell me how to start the DX11 version with PBX: You are welcome :-)

[FRAQATTAQ]

PBX starts the non-DX11 Version of PBA. Or to be more precise: It does on my computer ;-)

If anyone can tell me how to start the DX11 version with PBX: You are welcome :-)

 

in steam, click the right mouse button on TBA, there you can select the DX11 version

[Totaltimo]

 

PBX starts the non-DX11 Version of PBA. Or to be more precise: It does on my computer ;-)

If anyone can tell me how to start the DX11 version with PBX: You are welcome :-)

 

in steam, click the right mouse button on TBA, there you can select the DX11 version

 

 

Yes, but as far as I know, that doesn't affect the version being startet from PBX. It's a "Steam-only-solution" to select DX11. PBX starts the non-DX11 version. At least on my PC.

I want to start the DX11 version with PBX (in order to use dmdext), and I have no idea how......

[atarian]

Thanks again freezy for all your work on DMDExt. I am using it a fair bit.

Just an idea. I think you added a command line option to show text. What would be really nice is to have the ability to have animated text and transitions driven from the command line and/or through an XML file. HyperDMD used to be great for this but only works with PinDMD1. From what I understand about UltraDMD it only uses VBscript.

I guess it would be a lot of work to implement transitions but maybe a simple scrolling text option is possible?

[freezy]

Good to know!

 

Any way you can create an issue on GitHub about it? Tends to get lost less frequently

 

Also if you could describe a use case, that would be awesome, I think I understand what you want (although it's becoming more and more XDMD turf), so I'd like to know a case where it would make sense to have this kind of feature in dmdext.

[freneticamnesic]

righteous.

[rothbauerw]

Will this work with PBA and a virtual DMD?  I've tried 

 

dmdext mirror --source=pinballarcad

 

but the virtual DMD isn't mirroring the PBA dmd. It doesn't update at all.

[kruge99]

I no longer have a cabinet but I still have my PinDMDv3 connected to my gaming PC.  Can this be used in desktop mode for both Pinball FX2 and TPA?

 

Best Regards,

Kruge99.