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[T-800]

Awesome job monicle. You're layout looks really fun and I really like your style of art. The way you transition the 3D zombie head with the 2D playfield art is well done (which is something very hard to do!). Looking forward to playing this game when it's finished.

[maceman]

...instead of hills in that back corner, how about one of these

http://www.turbosqui...x.cfm/ID/526661

[Joe]

ok so apparently Im going to have to drop the sound quality on my wav files a bit. Currently sits at 74MB. I tried to do this with music mp3 files but coulnt get mp3 files to play on anyones tables, not just mine. so I dont think its my code but just my computer or something.
Anyways check it out and see what you think so far.

http://speedy.sh/FnAEX/zombie-r0-8.zip

try zip7 or rar to get it smaller without cutting the sound down.

[ICPjuggla]

A grave yard would look cool in the back corner! Maybe have some zombies poping out of some of the graves! This table is looking sweet by the way! Haven't read though the whole thred but will there be a full screen version?

[monicle]

Thanks man, btw you've seriously raised the bar for original tables . Maybe we can do a collab sometime.

Awesome job monicle. You're layout looks really fun and I really like your style of art. The way you transition the 3D zombie head with the 2D playfield art is well done (which is something very hard to do!). Looking forward to playing this game when it's finished.

I did promise to do a FS version but not right away. I'm itching to start my next table. Honestly it wont take much at all to go full screen since basically all but the zombie head are truely built in VP. I'm digging the graveyard idea and I think it fits the bill quite nicely. I plan to put a good chunk of time in over the weekend. I'm thinking this will be finished and ready for release within the next week.

A grave yard would look cool in the back corner! Maybe have some zombies poping out of some of the graves! This table is looking sweet by the way! Haven't read though the whole thred but will there be a full screen version?

[Bob5453]

Oh, I forgot to say the word ZOMBIE on the table is just screaming to be 6 lights, maybe blood red in color. Even work them into the events and maybe award an addaball or multiball when ZOMBIE is all lit up.

[oldskoolgamer]

Oh, I forgot to say the word ZOMBIE on the table is just screaming to be 6 lights, maybe blood red in color. Even work them into the events and maybe award an addaball or multiball when ZOMBIE is all lit up.

Nice Bob I like that thought very much as well!!

[faralos]

ok so apparently Im going to have to drop the sound quality on my wav files a bit. Currently sits at 74MB. I tried to do this with music mp3 files but coulnt get mp3 files to play on anyones tables, not just mine. so I dont think its my code but just my computer or something.
Anyways check it out and see what you think so far.

http://speedy.sh/FnAEX/zombie-r0-8.zip

try zip7 or rar to get it smaller without cutting the sound down.

I don't think you understand what he is trying to do
the zip file ain't the problem, he is talking of the actual music file sizes
the zip table file is okay it is the sound files that are huge
I am taking each sound effect and trying to make them smaller
to keep the actual table file size down

[monicle]

They already are lights but they are currently white . Once you lock 2 balls in the church a barricade drop target goes up. when you hit that drop target it lights up those letters 2 at a time. Once youve spelled out zombie, the barricade goes down and you can shoot the church again for 3 ball multiball.

Oh, I forgot to say the word ZOMBIE on the table is just screaming to be 6 lights, maybe blood red in color. Even work them into the events and maybe award an addaball or multiball when ZOMBIE is all lit up.

Edited by monicle, 20 July 2012 - 01:18 PM.

[monicle]

It's crazy how different a table feels with sounds and music

[Decidetto]

It's looking absolutely fabulous! The hillside in the back right is also a great idea.

I'm downloading the WIP right now

I see that you followed my suggestions about the flippers and the habitrail next to the well as well!
Though I have to say this: if you don't fully agree with what I'm saying, don't implement it!

[monicle]

Don't worry, if I didn't I wouldn't

It's looking absolutely fabulous! The hillside in the back right is also a great idea.

I'm downloading the WIP right now

I see that you followed my suggestions about the flippers and the habitrail next to the well as well!
Though I have to say this: if you don't fully agree with what I'm saying, don't implement it!

[faralos]

Monicle, if I knew you were this talented
I would have lit the fire under yer butt sooner
great job so far I love all the little building details too
like lights and rails for the church

[monicle]

in case anyone was wondering, doing the full 9.1.2 install resolved the music issue.

[Bob5453]

in case anyone was wondering, doing the full 9.1.2 install resolved the music issue.

Excellent!

[monicle]

some good progress made last night. A couple more sounds and light events and then Ill just need some people to put a few games through it to check for bugs. Any volunteers?
Also Im half considering converting the table to use wizardhat's display to look more authentic. Not sure what all will be involved but Im looking into it.

Edited by monicle, 26 July 2012 - 02:15 PM.

[monicle]

for anyone interested here is the Beta. Please put a few games through and report any bugs that you may find or anything else you want to say.
Artwork is at about 95% complete. Sounds are about 95% complete. and light events are about 75% complete.
After its 100% im going to work on reducing the size of the whole package. right now its just under 30m.

http://speedy.sh/Qh5X5/zombie.zip

[destruk]

You can reduce the number of ramps used in the table by deleting the ramps used for posts that will never be seen. Group-select the top half of each post and press delete.
In this case that'd remove 88 ramps from the four lower sling posts.

Hardcoding interface keys isn't a good idea - so you could change -
If keycode = 2 Then

to
If keycode = StartGameKey Then


and
If keycode = 4 Then

to
If keycode = AddCreditkey Then


That way the player would use the keys in VP's key preferences window.
The framerate can be improved by reducing the number of alpha ramps without sacrificing the quality rendering of the table - go through each ramp you have and determine which ones truly require alpha rendering.
I don't notice a visual difference by changing ramp423, ramp433 and ramp434 to acrylic - for instance. To get smooth gameplay on this table I need to change about 20 alpha ramps to solid or acrylic.

Edited by destruk, 27 July 2012 - 10:52 PM.

[maceman]

...just got back from a week at the cottage. What a pleasant surprise!
You've been busy

Excellent with the sounds. I am not a huge fan of the main soundtrack at the 0:27 mark however, when the drone kicks in. Just my opinion and i hope that doesn't offend anyone involved.... I would probably looped the stuff before that, which sounds better suited to my ears. I just don't like whatever that is that kicks in there, some synth setting of sorts....

Love the lines on this table. I am seeing some studder on my laptop on this revision, so hopefully you will consider Destruk's comments above in regards to that. Then i can try the table more deeply. Such an excellent job!

cheers,
Maceman

ps. Glad to hear you got your sound working on your system. That would have been a bother without for sure.

[monicle]

Yeah I definitely have some optimizing to do. I honestly didn't know about the flipper keys and whatnot but thats a painless change.

As for the music, Im using songs from the old super castlevania game. It's not the music I would use if I could make music myself but it's the closest thing I could find when I was searching.