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[jpsalas]

Who needs all the old authors and whiners from the past, we have JP now!!!
JP is the best invention since creation of VP, hope to see him continuing creating quality releases for a while.

Thanks for a great update JP!

Hehe, I could have never done anything without the older authors I made my first vpm table in 2006, that's 6 years making tables, so I start to be one of the "oldies", hahaha.

[starman]

I appreciate the improvements. Very elaborate and density graphics specifically on the playfield.
The table plays great, Thanks!

Who needs all the old authors and whiners from the past, we have JP now!!!
JP is the best invention since creation of VP, hope to see him continuing creating quality releases for a while.

Thanks for a great update JP!

TedB - You have to be careful with such statements.
This can easily misunderstand by one or the other, in spite of the smileys.

Servus
Walter

[TedB]

TedB - You have to be careful with such statements.
This can easily misunderstand by one or the other, in spite of the smileys.

Servus
Walter

No worries Walter, I was just making some fun and was referring to this thread that was turning into a "it used to be so much better in the past thread" http://www.vpforums....topic=18484&hl=

IMO there are so much more relaxed, dedicated an fine people now at vpforums.org than vpf.com ever had JP is one of them, and I consider you to one of them as well. Based on JP's reply I am sure he understood I was only joking.

I know some people can be a bit sensitive and jumpy lately, but don't let the UW incident (that I think was indeed such a misunderstanding) get us down and I hope it will still be allowed to make a joke once a while

[starman]

Sure, TedB - of course. I understand.
I can't barely survive a working day without having fun and making jokes.
And I'm sure it was more enthusiastic about JP's talent how beautiful and true-to-life VP tables are meanwhile.

Servus
Walter

[ced]

Thx jpsalas for all updates !!

ced.

[Toyoto]

First of all, Thanks for your awesome work. All the tables I've played from you have an attention to detail and a playability almost like the real thing.

I'm spanish as you JP but for the sake of everyone and for better understanding I'll write in english.

Well I just love this last update to your Tales from the Crypt recreation but, I'm having graphical issues that I don't have with other tables you've made for VP 912 as The Flinstones or Attack from Mars for instance.

When I set video mode to 640 x 480 everything looks fine but in a monitor with a native resolution of 1680x1050 everything looks blurry and the VPinmame window even at normal size it's gigantic:


Then as I increase resolution the background image starts to fade into a blue colour and the playfield starts look weird. Too slightly though but still too blurry to play at 800x600:


Then at the next step 1024x768 things go noticeably wrong:


And at my native resolution doesn't look good at all. Sometimes the playfield looks yellow, and sometimes a weird shadow appears that even makes lights invisible. This happens regardless I use 16 or 32 bit colour modes:



I got the previous version of this table but the emulated shaking the original table has, affects the ball physics and is weird to play. So I'm really interested in this update.

Similar things happen with a recreation of Monster Bash also for VP 912 but in this case just the background image looks bad. Horizontal colour lines appear but well, since this is not Moster Bash support thread I won't post anyimage here.

So any suggestions on how to solve this problem are welcome. Thanks in advance and keep up the awesome work!

Edited by Toyoto, 26 April 2012 - 02:07 AM.

[jpsalas]

Hey Toyoto:

That's easy to fix
The reason:
The images used in my latest tables are bigger than 1024x1024.

The solution:
You have two options:

1.- Turn On Hardware Device Rendering. With this on VP can use bigger images. After turning on you must quit VP and start it again. You turn this on/off in the Preferences, Video Options.

2.- If you have an older graphic card and it can't work with Hardware Rendering, then you are missing a lot (better details in the tables, better transparency, better ball flow...). So run and buy a new graphic card!. Ok, ok, The solution 2 is to limit the size of the images to 1024. You do that in the same preferences, video options. But still I mean the best is to go an by a new graphic card

JP

Edited by jpsalas, 26 April 2012 - 02:21 AM.

[Toyoto]

¡Hombre! Esto es otra cosa. Y que rapidez y eficiencia
Ya había probado a activar hardware device rendering, pero no a reiniciar luego, asi que siempre salían los gráficos mal y lo descartaba. Es lo que tiene ser un negado de la programación. Tarjeta tengo una que noes nueva pero tampoco una demasiado antigua. Geforce 8800GT que tira por los FPS actuales sin problemas a mi resolución nativa. Lo único que de lo que no puedo abusar es del anti aliasing que por otra parte me da un poco igual.
Me voy a echar unas partidas que se va a c**** la perra

Muchísimas gracias. Y si aceptas sugerencias, ojalá algún día te dé por recrear el Pinball de Demolition Man, que es otro de mis favoritos.

Un abrazo.
T.

Edited by Toyoto, 26 April 2012 - 02:47 AM.

[jpsalas]

¡Hombre! Esto es otra cosa. Y que rapidez y eficiencia
Ya había probado a activar hardware device rendering, pero no a reiniciar luego, asi que siempre salían los gráficos mal y lo descartaba. Es lo que tiene ser un negado de la programación. Tarjeta tengo una que noes nueva pero tampoco una demasiado antigua. Geforce 8800GT que tira por los FPS actuales sin problemas a mi resolución nativa. Lo único que de lo que no puedo abusar es del anti aliasing que por otra parte me da un poco igual.
Me voy a echar unas partidas que se va a c**** la perra

Muchísimas gracias. Y si aceptas sugerencias, ojalá algún día te dé por recrear el Pinball de Demolition Man, que es otro de mis favoritos.

Un abrazo.
T.

Good that you got it working!

[Toyoto]

Ahora se me hace raro dirigirme a ti en inglés. En las reglas del foro no dice nada respecto al idioma así que por ahora sigo así.

Bueno ya he jugado una buena cantidad de partidas ya y va como la seda. Sólo queria hacerte notar algo de lo que tras algunas partidas y ahora puedo ver las luces de la mesa me he dado cuenta.
En las luces que indican que Feature Creature está activa/seleccionada; la rueda central; Has puesto "Price Pops" en lugar de "Psyco Pops" que es lo que aparece en realidad (no he podido encontrar una imagen mejor)



Ya sé que no afecta para nada a la jugabilidad de la mesa, pero como eres tan detallista y en aras de la más perfecta posible recreación quizá te interese cambiarlo en futuras posibles actualizaciones.
Pues nada mas que eso.
Saludos

T.

[jpsalas]

Yes, Toyoto, it is better to write in English in this forum so everyone understand what it is written
I'll take a look at that light and if I make a revision of the table then I'll change it.

[Toyoto]

Ok, then. No more spanish but in the private messages.

[daniypedro]

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