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[hassanchop]

wow! again, great job!
looks like this one is gonna be a great original

[luvthatapex]

Very cool design. It sure looks tough to get upto ZEUS!
Looking forward to seeing the table progress. Well done!

Got a few more of the plastics done. Having some transparency issues with the ramps, leaving them hidden for now. Also "borrowed" the apron from Addams family to have as a placeholder...

[Nick Warcholak]

Great choice of theme and looking good. I never get tired of Greek myths.

[T-800]

Thanks everybody for the comments; continues to be a fun project and good learning experience.... The ZEUS upper playfield shot is pretty analogous to the Addams Family ramp shot - a decent left orbit shot puts the ball nicely in position for the right upper flipper to hit the ramp... If you miss right you get another small orbit similar to The Getaway, and if you miss left you'll either hit a drop target or go into the "labrynth." Depending on gameplay that will yield either a lock, start a mode, or the ball will kick out from a random location...

[T-800]

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Slight bit more progress. Any advice on creating the bend in the wire ramp located right in the middle above the center plastic where the big gray box currently is? I've seen a few people just use an image overlay to simulate the bend... Hoping for a more elegant solution...

[T-800]

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Found a slight work around on the middle wire section... Also added the main "toy" from an image I found online. Any 3D modellers out there wanna take a stab at rendering a new Zeus for me I'd really appreciate it! Also placed some flashers on the table to start laying out how the lighting and "lightning" will play out...

[Zablon]

This is looking to be a really cool table!

[Joe]

cool what is with the left ramp?

[gStAv]

This looks incredible T8!
Very professional!

[JAM0]

Awesome dude!

[T-800]

Been a little pre-occupied with other things lately, but managed to get a little more done.... Plastics are finished, most of the target textures done. Just need to shuffle around some of the playfield text and clean all of that up. Then it's on to getting the ramps to the proper transparency and finally coding (someone very, very, very, awesome at table creating and coding mentioned he'd help me out with that part...). At least I have the rule set all written out! Hopefully that part goes smoothly...

FYI - the left ramp is going to have a diverter that rotates as the ball hits it, alternating left and right depending on the last pass of the ball (similar to excalibur).

Overall, not a lot of bells and whistles on the game, but it should play fast with a good feeling of flow with each of the modes posing specific challenges and strategy.
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[faralos]

wow Zeus looks fantastic as does that (terminator?) skull
great work on the plastics too and as for bells and whistles
this pin has all of that and more just going by its looks
so how much longer are ya' going to continue to tease us?

[T-800]

So... I'm totally confused... I've never been able to duplicate a semi-transparent ramp in any of the table builds I've been working on. Although all the other tables that have semi-transparent ramps seem to play and render like they're supposed to. Tonight for some reason I decided to try getting the transparency to work, and low and behold this time they worked applying the same techniques I used before. Is this just some glitchy thing with the graphics card in my laptop? Why one day it'll work and another it doesn't confuses the heck out of me. To top it off, even though it "worked" there are still issues on some of the elevated walls I'm using that need transparency. Reference the image below - the left ramp for some reason makes the plastic underneath it disappear, the rear portion of that ramp makes the wall under the plastic disappear, and then the flat wall on the right ramp doesn't even render as semi-transparent even though it's the same texture. Thoughts?? Comments?

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[oldskoolgamer]

I wish I had advice and could help answer your question. But I can say this dude that looks amazing!! I can't wait to play this man. Alot of talent you have man!

[RipleYYY]

sure, this smells really good...

[robert kundrat]

So... I'm totally confused... I've never been able to duplicate a semi-transparent ramp in any of the table builds I've been working on. Although all the other tables that have semi-transparent ramps seem to play and render like they're supposed to. Tonight for some reason I decided to try getting the transparency to work, and low and behold this time they worked applying the same techniques I used before. Is this just some glitchy thing with the graphics card in my laptop? Why one day it'll work and another it doesn't confuses the heck out of me. To top it off, even though it "worked" there are still issues on some of the elevated walls I'm using that need transparency. Reference the image below - the left ramp for some reason makes the plastic underneath it disappear, the rear portion of that ramp makes the wall under the plastic disappear, and then the flat wall on the right ramp doesn't even render as semi-transparent even though it's the same texture. Thoughts?? Comments?

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First time I think your ramp's height is under the plastic height. No more idea.

Edited by robert kundrat, 18 March 2012 - 03:55 PM.

[kiwi]

The ramp is too low, you see a piece of the spinner.
Controls the options of the ramp, make sure the apha option is checked.
Try putting the ramp in front or back.

Max

[T-800]

The ramp is too low, you see a piece of the spinner.
Controls the options of the ramp, make sure the apha option is checked.
Try putting the ramp in front or back.

Max

Thanks Max! The front/back did the trick. The parts that were not rendering properly were actually elevated walls - both of which heights were above the plastics and the spinner. Re-ordering made a difference though.

[Ike Savage]

your project looks absolutely amazing. didn't want to hijack, so i posted a similar game here:
http://www.vpforums....i...st&p=169322

[top1percent]

This table looks amazing!! Great work!! I may need to beta test this table for you!