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[DaveyDarko]

I was starting to get rather burned out tracing all these rocks and stuff, so I've been playing with my new Twilight Zone lately (my first real pin!). If I'm not enjoying what I'm working on, then it won't turn it out great, so I apologize if anyone is especially anxious to play this. I think I'll pick it back up this week.

Thats why I usually have multiple projects going on. If I get bored with one, I switch to the other. ;]

Take your time! You have done an amazing job!

Edited by DaveyDarko, 18 January 2012 - 09:55 AM.

[JAM0]

Congrats on your new Twilight Zone!

[Slydog43]

I almost bought a TZ a month ago, but bought a Fish tales and a Flash instead. Still Looking for a good TZ for my collection. Are you enjoying your TZ? What condition is it in? How much did you pay? Cant decide if Im going to build another Virtual Cabinet or get another real machine. Man these Pinball machine are like rabbits, they sure do multiply

Edited by Slydog43, 18 January 2012 - 02:29 PM.

[kevinleedrum]

I almost bought a TZ a month ago, but bought a Fish tales and a Flash instead. Still Looking for a good TZ for my collection. Are you enjoying your TZ? What condition is it in? How much did you pay? Cant decide if Im going to build another Virtual Cabinet or get another real machine. Man these Pinball machine are like rabbits, they sure do multiply

It has a little wear to the cabinet (scuffs, scratches, etc..), and there was a GI string out in the backbox (burned connector that I easily replaced), but overall it is in excellent condition. The playfield is gorgeous, and it already had a few tasteful mods that I wanted to buy anyway. I paid $4K for it, and I have absolutely no regrets. I've somehow managed to pour quite a bit more money into it in just a few weeks lol. It's almost totally LED now, including the clock, which I modified with the kit from Pinbits.

I was my nephew's age when TZ came out, and he has been over quite a bit to play it (which makes me feel like I'm still cool). I've beaten the highest factory score on the VP version several times, but I've only made the 4th highest score on the real game so far lol.

[DaveyDarko]

Any update on this? Im really excited about it!

[Pintrepid]

I'm just redrawing in Illustrator. In fact, some of the things I was going to do in Photoshop I'm actually going to do in Illustrator afterall. In Illustrator, I use the Pen tool, so every corner you see in the artwork was at least one mouse click. I have a tablet, but I'm not graceful enough to use it for this (unlike some of the great artists on this site).

I'm a fan of Illustrator, too. I like that I can blow things way up and create intricate detail, stuff like those rocks you traced, and then, when displayed at actual size, the detail is awesome!

I used to draw pen and ink back in the day. But I lost the manual dexterity in my right hand at a point. I had to learn how to write and draw with the left hand. I have recently discovered that I can recreate shapes that look like ink strokes ... so I can create patterns and textures that look like hand drawn pen & ink! This makes me VERY happy!!!

Looking forward to seeing your finished table ... I'll spend hours admiring all the intricate detail!

-PeterMac

[kevinleedrum]

Any update on this? Im really excited about it!

It's been on the back burner due to a lot of other commitments that have been eating up my free time. Hope to get back to it soon. It's been long enough that I don't feel burned out on it anymore. But if too much more time passes on this, I'll at least pass my work to someone else. I really want this table to see the light of day I've not just done a lot of art redrawing, but I've also pre-scripted most of it already, testing bits and pieces on the older VP8 table. No offense to the extremely talented people who worked on that version, but the old table does not behave like the real thing in terms of the rules, so there is more than just pretty graphics to look forward to.

[settingsons]

Thanks for the update. I know finding time is usually the biggest issue. I still play your Robowar table a lot - it is such an awesome tables i am hoping I will one day come across a real one.

[kevinleedrum]

Time to clean the dust and cobwebs out of this thread since someone else is moving in.  

[atarian]

Welcome back!   A lot has happened in VP in last couple of years!

 

I also love your Robo-war table - actually it has an issue with the new lastest VP release - the ball goes over the top of the bumper.   You might see it for yourself once you try VP 9.9.

 

Cheers

[mfuegemann]

Hi,

 

as Kevin stated, someone joined the team. With all the great work he did redrawing the playfields, finding out about the solenoids, switches and lamp numbers I was glad to be able to help bringing this beauty to life. Today I did the lane guides and the uplift to the upper playfield in Blender and now the only things remaining are GI and fine tuning. Attached You find a screenshot of the actual desktop version.

After the release the FS table may take a little longer, as the lower playfield has to be aligned with great care to give one a good view.

 

Regards

Michael

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•  Wip5.jpg   153.94KB   12 downloads

[bolt]

Good start Michael.

Thank you that you work on this nice table.

[The Loafer]

this is fantastic news, thanks for the pic, it sure is wetting the appetite!

[wangho]

This guy did Robo-War??  I was just playing that table last night amazed by the perfect craftsmanship of the thing.  Hope you do more, dude.

[nomorestalker]

Awesome, always wanted to know more about this table. *waits patiently for FS*

[mfuegemann]

Hi,

 

I just applied the FS settings to the actual WIP to get an impression on the work remaining with the lower playfield for FS. It turned out, that all is aligned properly without further tweaking.

So FS is not far off. From my point of view, the table is now  feature complete and will only see some more tests before the release.

 

Regards

Michael

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[luvthatapex]

This is incredible news! I never thought i would see this on my cabinet. Thanks guys for the hard work to make it happen. This is a really rare and fun game.

[dboyrecords]

Woo hoo! One more un-rotate-able-table! Popeye, Fire!, now Krull!

Now we need Bugs Bunny, Operation Thunder, Dakor etc...

Thanks!

Edi: I forgot Capcom Kingpin!!!

Edited by dboyrecords, 02 October 2014 - 01:40 PM.

[Romuluz]

What is Dakor? Or did you mean Drakor?

 

That would be here:

http://www.vpforums....&showfile=10021

 

But that was not "un-rotate-able"?!

[dboyrecords]

Mr. Game Dakar http://www.ipdb.org/...earchtype=quick

 

Upper playfield is made from decals in VP version and has video in BG.

 

Sorry for hijack (and a greedy one at that!).