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Dev thread: Road to DX9

Started By mukuste , Jan 24 2014 11:24 AM

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#21 kruge99

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Posted 25 January 2014 - 01:45 PM

 

Would it be possible to integrate b2s support into vp natively?

 

Sorry, I'm still learning the lingo. What is b2s?

 

it's an add-on to show the backglass and scores on a second monitor.


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Posted 25 January 2014 - 03:13 PM

What would be the advantage?
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Posted 25 January 2014 - 03:45 PM

Possibly better performance.


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Posted 25 January 2014 - 04:42 PM

don't think so, it works good like it is, the process is outside of vp which is a good think


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Posted 25 January 2014 - 04:59 PM

I would like to hear from mukuste on this. If the performance would be minimal then I agree.


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Posted 25 January 2014 - 05:40 PM

There are advantages from a user point of view if backglass support is done within the table VPT. We can't always look at it from our point if view, we have to look at it from a new user's POV. anything that can be done automatically and just allows the user to download a table load it in VP and press play is a good thing.

This is not a knock against b2s/db2s, the flexibility is killer and the work is incredible and I have no problem with the status quo.

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Posted 25 January 2014 - 06:08 PM

I'm sorry, I really can't say. I haven't had time to look at B2S. Is it open source? I couldn't find anything.


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Posted 25 January 2014 - 07:08 PM

i would recommend that you concentrate on everything DX9 first.. the rest can come later-on..


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Posted 25 January 2014 - 07:24 PM

It would be cool to continue the work manowar started, by making the backglass animations and such an inherent part of VP.

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Posted 25 January 2014 - 07:32 PM

...and then a table like Banzai Run could be made to play like the real thing, i.e. the vertical playfield would be in the backbox :)


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Posted 25 January 2014 - 07:36 PM

Hey mukuste, good luck! VP never die


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Posted 26 January 2014 - 02:40 AM

I updated the first post with the latest progress. I had quite a lot of time to hack away at this today, so I made good progress on steps 1 and 2 and even got started a bit with step 3.


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Posted 26 January 2014 - 02:45 AM

sounds very promising!  :otvclap:


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Posted 26 January 2014 - 12:51 PM

Very excited about this

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Posted 26 January 2014 - 01:31 PM

Wow this looks awesome! Hopefully we'll see better hardware support/compatibility ;) Keep up the good work!


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Posted 26 January 2014 - 03:06 PM

Great progress!


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Posted 26 January 2014 - 03:41 PM

sounds good! good luck there and thanks for the update log!


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Posted 27 January 2014 - 07:47 AM

I again updated the first post with new details on steps 2 and 3. I'm quite happy with how it's going until now. I won't have as much time now as on the weekend of course, but things should keep progressing.


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Posted 27 January 2014 - 07:50 AM

Really cool...keep up the good work. I'm really curious how this ends up ;)

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Posted 27 January 2014 - 09:37 AM

Major milestone: after hacking away at dozens of compiler errors in the most brutal fashion, I can now compile VP under DX9! Furthermore I can start it up and create a table. Starting the player still crashes for various reasons which I'm mostly aware of, so that is expected, but so far so good.


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