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[The Loafer]

Is it necessary to be insulting in providing good and valuable constructive commentary?

[destruk]

Is it necessary to be insulting in providing good and valuable constructive commentary?

I think it is important to tell people how you really feel, than to sugar coat everything and feign unflinching devotion to anything that is done. I think there are a few "day care" forums out there if your ego can't deal with one or two unfriendly comments. Thanks Grizz and UncleWilly for making the displays look better.

[The Loafer]

Is it necessary to be insulting in providing good and valuable constructive commentary?

I think it is important to tell people how you really feel, than to sugar coat everything and feign unflinching devotion to anything that is done. I think there are a few "day care" forums out there if your ego can't deal with one or two unfriendly comments. Thanks Grizz and UncleWilly for making the displays look better.

"Wow" is all I have to say but to each is own. If the authors and thread owners are ok with these types of comments and the site owner is ok, then it should be ok I guess.

[Grizz]

Brian,
i don't think it is stupid to go all out on redraws and stuff..that is what i enjoy..i am not perfect..i tried to do a nice clean piece of work for my first table. I understand that people want exact replicas of these machines, I will try much harder on the next one.
As always, i appreciate any help on getting this corrected, I don't know any real coding yet..or anything about the backglass reels.
Just art and now VP table building...I will get better as time goes on..I just want this corrected :}

PS: any luck on getting that Pentacup out soon ?
Excited to see this one in hires from that redraw :}

[Flying Dutchman]

The result of a special bunch of people aiming for a realistic and superb result ..

Thanks to this Forum these people have been brought together to share their knowledge and experience with each other!

All of the above is meant well!

Cheers,
FD.

ps. Popotte pm'ed me a possible way to get the bulps & reels coded .. might work .. might not work .. we'll give it a go .. Thanks again Popotte!

Edited by Flying Dutchman, 12 October 2010 - 04:44 PM.

[destruk]

Brian,
i don't think it is stupid to go all out on redraws and stuff..that is what i enjoy..i am not perfect..i tried to do a nice clean piece of work for my first table. I understand that people want exact replicas of these machines, I will try much harder on the next one.
As always, i appreciate any help on getting this corrected, I don't know any real coding yet..or anything about the backglass reels.
Just art and now VP table building...I will get better as time goes on..I just want this corrected :}

PS: any luck on getting that Pentacup out soon ?
Excited to see this one in hires from that redraw :}

I would certainly hope that others would be as candid with me as I am with them. As far as being the master of "ugly machines", as I usually don't work on art, I don't mind that comment at all - however anyone who did the art of the machine in question might want clarification on which are ugly or how they could be improved. If you were offended by my ADD comment, I apologize - I suppose what I meant is the lack of attention to detail on the scoring displays compared to the intricate detail work on everything else was a sharp contrast. Especially when you could just have the VPM display window visible and then the displays would be perfect. As far as Pentacup, it's been done, it's sitting here still, waiting for the next VPM release before it is uploaded so people can play the thing. Grizz did good work on the art, but it's lacking a backdrop image. Maybe Sabbat Moon can make a backdrop image for it - I don't know.

[Grizz]

I just thought saying it was stupid..might have been a bit harsh ?
I have told u before Brian, I appreciate all you do for this site ?
That is one of many reasons, I jumped on and redrew the pentacup for yah ?

I have stated many times before how appreciative i am, from all the authors.
Anyway man..I am just looking to get this all fixed up.

I thank u for any help in getting this fixed the right way
plz feel free to open any of the tables and make the fix for me :}
like i said..i really know nothing about scripting and the reels thing yet.

lacking a backdrop image ?
what does that mean ?

Sabbat, could you please apologize about your remark on Brian's tables.
He is not the master of ugly tables....I would never had said that my friends.
I am just here to create fun for myself and anyone else who loves pinball :}

As stated in my release : All TEXT above is my Opinion and my opinion only!
Other opinions may vary. Any & all opinions expressed herein will be moot in a court of pinball.

Brian,
i don't think it is stupid to go all out on redraws and stuff..that is what i enjoy..i am not perfect..i tried to do a nice clean piece of work for my first table. I understand that people want exact replicas of these machines, I will try much harder on the next one.
As always, i appreciate any help on getting this corrected, I don't know any real coding yet..or anything about the backglass reels.
Just art and now VP table building...I will get better as time goes on..I just want this corrected :}

PS: any luck on getting that Pentacup out soon ?
Excited to see this one in hires from that redraw :}

I would certainly hope that others would be as candid with me as I am with them. As far as being the master of "ugly machines", as I usually don't work on art, I don't mind that comment at all - however anyone who did the art of the machine in question might want clarification on which are ugly or how they could be improved. If you were offended by my ADD comment, I apologize - I suppose what I meant is the lack of attention to detail on the scoring displays compared to the intricate detail work on everything else was a sharp contrast. Especially when you could just have the VPM display window visible and then the displays would be perfect. As far as Pentacup, it's been done, it's sitting here still, waiting for the next VPM release before it is uploaded so people can play the thing. Grizz did good work on the art, but it's lacking a backdrop image. Maybe Sabbat Moon can make a backdrop image for it - I don't know.

[unclewilly]

Ok here is the second reel with the commas.
Import this texture into the image manager. Click on backdrop, select the reels for numbers which should have a comma behind them: eg: 1,000,000 the reel for the one and the 4th zero from the right. Chenge the image to LedsComma. Now it should be correct.

Thanks for pointing this out Brian, as i said before i didn't really look at the backglass too much so i wasn't paying close attention to the display system.
Sometimes i just assume they are all using the same ones.
this and the initial led reel i posted should put the table with authentic displays


 ledsComma.jpg   65.62KB   17 downloads

[Grizz]

Thanks UW, and thanks again Brian for helping us and teaching me something new:}

UPDATE: 1:02

I have now fixed the files with the correct images and settings.
I just updated the file to 1.02. I forgot to checkmark the publish date option.
But the file is now correct.
You can just download the pack again.
or just edit the file as stated by UW above.
I did adjust other things, colors and settings and some movement tweaks on objects.
Sorry for all of this.

[sast05]

Every so often the pinball gets stuck in this location. Perhaps the table needs another wall to prevent it.

Otherwise great effort, thanx!

[Grizz]

yeah..happened to me only once so far :}
i did add a wall to the original version..
should have added to all of them..
can do yet :}
thanks my friends :}

[mach2]

thanks for update Grizz

[Ezepov]

Great work! but the ball looks little square

Edited by Ezepov, 14 October 2010 - 09:40 AM.

[Grizz]

really..i havent noticed that at all ?
anyone else ?
maybe we should replace the ball

Great work! but the ball looks little square

[Sabbat]

hey grizz, you know how i was telling you there was problems with the ball jumping too often when hitting the skinny metal posts... well this is what happened when the ball hit the drain post between the flippers....the ball jumped up on the apron.

[Grizz]

will look into it then my friend
time for update anyway :}

hey grizz, you know how i was telling you there was problems with the ball jumping too often when hitting the skinny metal posts... well this is what happened when the ball hit the drain post between the flippers....the ball jumped up on the apron.

[Sabbat]

sweet, us WS players could use a backdrop that fills the whole background too

[unclewilly]

thats really strange freddie, in all the testing i never got the ball to bounce up on the apron. usually the elasticity doesn't bounce upward. have you experienced this on any of my tables. grizz built these much the same way i do mine

[Sabbat]

thats really strange freddie, in all the testing i never got the ball to bounce up on the apron. usually the elasticity doesn't bounce upward. have you experienced this on any of my tables. grizz built these much the same way i do mine

I have experienced some ball jumping on some of your tables but it was very minimal and nothing bad came of it. It's mostly the skinny metal posts that cause this. It just happens to happen a lot on these royal flush tables, example i've hit the skinny metal post on the left center plastic and it caused the ball to jump over the target bank into the lane guides on RF.

[unclewilly]

i think it should be an easy fix by just lowering the elasticiy a little bit