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[bolt]

Looks very good.

[ClarkKent]

 

Only an idea: Don't you think the green neon light lamp should have more greenish impact on the surrounding area (like flashers)? This would certainly look cool!

This isn't final, but something like this?

 

Y E A H !!!

[gogo69]

wow like luke's laser sword !!! awesome !!!!

[Aaron James]

I've been playing/testing this on my cab and it looks even better in person than on that pic.
When that neon tube flashes, it really lights the game up!
(Just like the real one does)
In relation to this, Koadic the Magician is working on something else too that I'm excited to try.
I know this table has seen many updates, but why not keep trying and make the table better, right? :-)
Definitely expect another update soon. I would say final...but probably not. lol

[LoadedWeapon]

That looks Awesome! Thank you!

[fuzzel]

in Germany we say: GEIL (phat/wicked)

 

The next table to beautify like this is what? TOM?

[Slydog43]

1 vote for TOM, its a great table!!!!!  

[arngrim]

Oh yes TOM please

[joeyhza]

3rd vote TOM and then perhaps Tales of the Arabian Nights

 

Also - Kodiak - the next version will the ball stutter be kinda sorta fixed?

[joeyhza]

I've been playing/testing this on my cab and it looks even better in person than on that pic.
When that neon tube flashes, it really lights the game up!
(Just like the real one does)
In relation to this, Koadic the Magician is working on something else too that I'm excited to try.
I know this table has seen many updates, but why not keep trying and make the table better, right? :-)
Definitely expect another update soon. I would say final...but probably not. lol

 

 

You're such a tease! 

[BobAlbright]

YES....TOM,

[ClarkKent]

Another idea: Can you make the "Boom Balloon" a primitive? The animation when it goes up and down would be much more visible, like the trolls in MM!

 

When it wobbles a little bit when going up and down it would be even more visible!

Edited by ClarkKent, 11 December 2013 - 05:28 PM.

[koadic]

Unfortunately I think the performance impact introduced by adding another primitive of any complexity for the minor visual gain would introduce even more playability issues for those already having troubles running this table smoothly.

[ClarkKent]

The visible gain of the trolls primitive in MM was enormous as it is much better to see than before! The poping in and out of the balloon doesn't seem to be that realistic at the moment...

Maybe it could be added optionally for powerful hardware?

Edited by ClarkKent, 12 December 2013 - 02:54 PM.

[Aaron James]

UPDATED DECEMBER 12TH, 2013 TO VERSION 1.1
 
Koadic changed the green neon tube visual.
He created some alpha ramps to enhance the overall look to make it more realistic.
Koadic fixed Boom Balloon. He added a trigger and a collidable dropwall, as the boom balloon comes up, the trigger is enabled, if the ball is on the trigger when it is enabled, it will shift the z position by 70 and end up on top of the dropwall, then roll off... so it should no longer get stuck inside the boom balloon.
Koadic replaced all the rubbers/posts in the game with primitives (viewable in "3" layer in the editor). This ultimately gives a good performance boost.
Koadic changed all the ramps to have normal 3d on so region optimization can be turned off as well, as well as making one huge refresh light that gets called everytime the lamps update (only once per update instead of once for each lamp that gets updated)... I am able to get a nice performance increase this way... about 800 fps with alpha slider all the way down, about 550 to 600 with it all the way up. Also fixed a minor issue with the ball rolling sounds as they were effectively disabled, with or without feedback sounds enabled.
I fixed GI near polar bear.
There were some other small changes as well.
*SPECIAL THANKS to ClarkKent for providing a new middle ramp decal image...looks great!
 
If I've forgotten anything let me know guys ;-)
 
** I recommend for people with a lot of ball stutter to have the GI for both 'on' and 'off' set to "OFF". (F6 Menu) : having a color GI On hinders performance a bit and will drop fps down; depends on your system.
I recommend using latest VP build..9.2 found here : https://www.dropbox....VPinball Builds
 
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Edited by Aaron James, 13 December 2013 - 04:53 AM.

[Aaron James]

...small error in the file..reuploading now.

[Aaron James]

...small error in the file..reuploading now.

Ok...everything should be fine now. :-)

[Dozer316]

Just awesome guys, thanks a million for the work you've put into this.

 

The new neon is fantastic - JPOP would be proud

[jpsalas]

very nice!

[Fulltilt]

I was getting some studder but working much better now with the latest rev783 ..and the new neon is just awesome

Thanks for all the hard work on this work of art!