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[Slydog43]

wow, love the new settings of turning PinDMD on/off in the F1 settings menu.  This makes turning off DMD much easier than editing the registry, Thanks guys!

[Xendo]

Is there a way to increase brightness on the VPM DMD?  I'd love to see more options to make the DMD look better/more realistic when on an LCD screen.

[toxie]

i have a prototype implementation running with round led lamps and overbright color-options, but the implementation is a real mess currently (and basically hacked for my cabinet monitor resolution).

if i get at cleaning it up and making it work for all kinds of machines/resolutions, i hope that this will make it into a VPM release at some point.

[DJRobX]

Is there a way to increase brightness on the VPM DMD?  I'd love to see more options to make the DMD look better/more realistic when on an LCD screen.

 

Have you tried turning on "Direct3d" in the registry?  I never see anyone talking about this option, but IMHO it looks amazing compared to ddraw. 

[Xendo]

Hmm, how do you go about doing that? is it on a per game basis or for all VPM?

[Xendo]

Hmm, how do you go about doing that? is it on a per game basis or for all VPM?

Ok, I figured out and I changed ddraw = 0 and direct3d = 1 for all games.  The DMD seems to load as I can see the dots of the DMD, but no images on the DMD when a game is being played.  If I re-enable ddraw the DMD shows.

[toxie]

i just updated the first post with a new dll that contains the latest changes from the VPM team, and adds the colorized DMD changes by mjr (see http://www.vpforums....showtopic=27589 and http://www.vpforums....e=3#entry263670 and https://pinside.com/...olor-dmd/page/4 ).

Edited by toxie, 29 April 2014 - 07:28 AM.

[unclewilly]

Sweet

[JohnnyDoe]

That is really cool.

[unclewilly]

Are there special roms that use the colored dmd?

If so where do we get them.

Thanks toxie

[JohnnyDoe]

You don't need special roms. I just tested AFM for example and it changed colors on the dmd. Not sure how I change the default colors for all roms though.

[gtxjoe]

Not at home to try, but you should be able to set the colors via table script also.  Based on the new registry keys, you are just replacing the 4 shades that vPinMAME supported with 4 specific colors.  Something like this should work

 

 

.Games(cGameName).Settings.Value("dmd_colorize") = 1

.Games(cGameName).Settings.Value("dmd_red") = 255

.Games(cGameName).Settings.Value("dmd_green") = 0

.Games(cGameName).Settings.Value("dmd_blue") = 0

.Games(cGameName).Settings.Value("dmd_red66") = 0

.Games(cGameName).Settings.Value("dmd_green66") = 255

.Games(cGameName).Settings.Value("dmd_blue66") = 0

.Games(cGameName).Settings.Value("dmd_red33") = 0

.Games(cGameName).Settings.Value("dmd_green33") = 0

.Games(cGameName).Settings.Value("dmd_blue33") = 255

.Games(cGameName).Settings.Value("dmd_red0") = 255

.Games(cGameName).Settings.Value("dmd_green0") = 255

.Games(cGameName).Settings.Value("dmd_blue0") = 255

[boiydiego]

i just updated the first post with a new dll that contains the latest changes from the VPM team, and adds the colorized DMD changes by mjr (see http://www.vpforums....showtopic=27589 and http://www.vpforums....e=3#entry263670 and https://pinside.com/...olor-dmd/page/4 ).

 

how to install this put in the vpinmame folder and then use the vp setup file on it?

Edited by boiydiego, 02 May 2014 - 09:15 AM.

[fuzzel]

Yes. After that start a table which you like to tweak the DMD color, press F1 and check the colorize DMD option and select colors for 100%,66%,33% and off.

[Vinthar]

Possibility to change colors is so damn cool, LOVE IT. Thanx!

 

Two more questions/requests:

 

1) Is it possible to set DMD like semitransparent? I would like it to looks similar to DMD in PinbalFx2 - sometimes I play on one pivot monitor setup and I would like DMD to be larger but to not completly cover table begind it. I see in registry "transluency" value but changin it gives no effect?

 

2) Could you please add in future posisblity do clone DMD? I would like one real size dmd on my cabinet 3th monitor (display#3) and small "copy" on playfield monitor (display#1) so I could place it on table apron - basicly I would like possiblity to do in my cabinet what "personal dmd" gives to reall pinball machine.

[Carny_Priest]

On option 2, you might take a look at this thread. I haven't tried it yet, but it seems like it might do the job.

 

http://www.vpforums....showtopic=26997

[BigBoss]

Possibility to change colors is so damn cool, LOVE IT. Thanx!
 
Two more questions/requests:
 
1) Is it possible to set DMD like semitransparent? I would like it to looks similar to DMD in PinbalFx2 - sometimes I play on one pivot monitor setup and I would like DMD to be larger but to not completly cover table begind it. I see in registry "transluency" value but changin it gives no effect?
 
2) Could you please add in future posisblity do clone DMD? I would like one real size dmd on my cabinet 3th monitor (display#3) and small "copy" on playfield monitor (display#1) so I could place it on table apron - basicly I would like possiblity to do in my cabinet what "personal dmd" gives to reall pinball machine.

Perhaps the transparency option also requires enabling d3d on the dmd window.

[Vinthar]

On option 2, you might take a look at this thread. I haven't tried it yet, but it seems like it might do the job.

 

http://www.vpforums....showtopic=26997

 

I still would like to see "cloning option" in vpinmame becouse it would be probably faster and more eficient then using "outside" software.

I checked link you shared - actuatools may do the job, but its not free , I think this http://ontopreplica.codeplex.com/ may be free replacement. Gonna try this soon. Here is video showing how it works:

 

It's little off-topic here, but I decided to post just in case someone else would be insterested in personal-dmd-alike in his/her cabinet.

[Carny_Priest]

Please post your findings. I'd be very interested to know if you can make the solution work, especially with a front end.


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[arngrim]

Vpinmame has no speed or performance issue