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[Rawd]

That is looking very nice! Good work!

[faralos]

ooh a microbus! (the blue thingy) We owned one of those things in the late 60's! ours was green and white! Man does that thing bring back memories (like pushing it up every hill!) cool bulldog too! he looks ready to jump out and grab your leg! nice progress btw

[Grizz]

Looks amazing!
Gonna be sweet to play this again.
Thanks for the update

[wtiger]

[unclewilly]

That looks sweet, your making so many peopl happy right now.
How did you do the doghouse. is it just an image on a sidewall or ramp or did you build it from wall objects.

Great job so far

[The Trout]

This is looking awesome, but I've got some slightly sad news: I've been trying to ignore the fact for a while now, but I've gotta admit that I just will never have the time to finish the playfield. I started working full time again a couple months ago and I don't have any free time at all anymore. That said, I'll gladly send anybody my Illustrator file if they wanna finish the redraw themselves. Just let me know.

Sorry, Nealtron, you're doing great work, but I just won't ever get this redraw finished.

[Nealtron]

No worries Trout, at least you got a good start on it. So is there anyone out there who's down to finish the playfield? Let me and/or The Trout know...

Anyway, I did make some progress this week on Junk Yard. There's still a couple minor things I need to add, but for the most part the table is complete. And to answer your question Unclewilly: The doghouse and van are on EMReels. I took a screen capture with only the ramps rendered, and created an EMReel of just the top part of the ramps that overlaps the two, so it would appear correctly.

I really like how this table is coming along. I want it to look and feel as realistic as possible, and I've added a lot more minor details and hi-res graphics than I did with Independence Day- (which I will be updating and modifying soon based on some things I've learned building this table).

Here's what it looks like so far:


Obviously I can't get a whole lot further without a complete playfield, and I'm not interested in doing it myself. So if anyone wants to help out, that would be great. Also, if anyone owns a table, send me a PM, I need some pictures of the flashers/ solenoids firing. (I know Vati 1 has one but his camera's busted). I also need a picture of the pricing card. In the meantime, maybe I'll mess around with the script a little.

[rehab]

Wow!

Looking awesome.

[vic viper]

thats just amazing nealtron.

[maxfx4u]

Lookes great. Really hope you can find someone to help with that redraw.

[wtiger]

I looked through my pictures and most of the pricing cards I found were made with plain text (similar to Arial), so here's an image from what I made up in Inkscape. I've also included the Inkscape .svg file too.

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•  junkyard_price_card.zip   2.04KB   11 downloads

[Oskari14]

Is this going to be released in VP 8 and VP 9 ???

[bolt]

Thanks for the new WIP Picture, the details looks very good.

[Nealtron]

Is this going to be released in VP 8 and VP 9 ???

No, I'm just going to release it for VP9- I like to use the better tilt and transparent ramp features, plus there's already a VP8 version.
Thanks for the price card wtiger!

[sikarkades]

Here are some custom cards.

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[Oskari14]

OK Nealtron.
I know, that there is a VP8 version, but the ball gets stuck in the holes at all the time, so I have to always restart my game.
It's so annoying!!!

[Nealtron]

Here are some custom cards.

Nice custom cards! I'm looking forward to your playfield redraw- Thanks for offering to help!

[Nealtron]

Well, I've got good news, (for those who didn't already know): I found someone to finish the playfield redraw, or they found me. oooPLAYER1ooo has offered to re-do the whole thing from scratch, even offered to redraw my plastics, and the work is looking fantastic so far. And judging by his progress, I don't think it will take him very long.

As for the table, I've made quite a bit of progress on it, although not much has changed visually. It's got a fully-functioning script, with a working "toilet-flush" effect and retractable scoop. The ball and chain is also working and no longer jerks around like the old version, it does twitch a slight bit but I'm trying to make it sit perfectly motionless when it's still. Anyway, just using the color red for all the lights right now, except those on the backglass, which, like my VP8 mod, is a collage of images from the original backglass:



So I just need about 6 more links on the chain, I think. And once I get the finished redraws I'll get some cool lighting going on- I want it to have kind of a night-mod appearance so the flashers seem nice and dramatic. ID4 full screen is coming soon too.

[maxfx4u]

This is about as close to photorealistic as ive seen yet. Is the lower part of the backglass, the part were you put the dmd, going to be visible?
I like tables that include that. Nice work.

[bolt]

Wow, the table looks so beauty, can't wait to see the final table.