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[marie]

Thanks Flupper for this informative update again!

[DKong]

Thanks for sharing your progress. Looks incredible!

[sifusun]

I am still working on this...

Thank you Sir for all your UNBELIEVABLE work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  THANK YOU A MILLION

[thewool]

Simply gorgeous... thank you for your time flupper1

[liebowa]

I just fell upon this thread - and so glad I did.  This is amazing - just shows how much work and talent go into building these tables that we download and play without much thought about how they are built.

 

Thank you so much for this.  

[flupper1]

Chapter 9: creating full table view flashers

 

I have been adding 8 flashers to WhirlWind and I have done that in a new way. Those 8 flashers show their flashing effect on the whole table. I made this work like this:

- (almost) all you see in Whirlwind are VPX primitives with my Blender/Octane prerendered textures. In order to show the flashing effects I duplicated all the primitives but made them slightly bigger then the existing ones.

- In Blender I rendered again the whole table for each flasher with only the one flasher illuminating the table (no environment, nothing else). This generates two textures: one for the playfield/sidewalls and one for everything else (see one of my earlier posts for explanation). Different this time is that I made the transparency of these textures dependent on the brightness of the image. So when the flasher illuminates a sidewall, that part of the texture is more/very visible, while an area of the table which is unaffected is fully transparent in the texture.

- If I would duplicate all primitives in the table for each flasher separately, the triangle count would be way too high, so I employed some trickery. I duplicated the primitives only twice for 8 flashers. So there is one primitive for four flashers. In script I alternate the four flashers textures on one primitive. So if one flasher is firing, it is displayed every fourth frame. This is exactly what I wanted, since a flasher is supposed to be - well - flashing.

 

The result you can see in this video:

https://youtu.be/FV8TRfDNOOw

 

There is still a lot to do on the table, at least:

- adding my new Williams bats

- making the moving ramp work (move), as well as animate the droptargets and the regular targets

- animating the two lights on top of the cellar

- optimizing the insert based other flashers

- adding magnasave key operated LUT's (for contrast and brightness)

- adding ballshadow

- adding a background for DT

- performance tuning (there are quite a lot of timers in this table as it is...)

- bughunting & testing

- scriptcleaning

- etc

 

Regarding publication: I first will publish it for cabinet & desktop, after that I will look into optimizing and expanding it for VR (maybe...).

 

Next chapter:
https://www.vpforums...430#entry492388

Edited by flupper1, 19 December 2021 - 08:42 PM.

[pacboy]

Magnificent, you are a perfectionist artist. Thank you for sharing your progress with us, I am far from understanding everything but I enjoy trying . Good luck for the future and thank you again Flupper. 

[Gravy]

Wow, this is certainly progressing beautifully.... where can I get me one of those pink ball savers for the real world (that sounds a bit odd when I say it out aloud)?

[3rdaxis]

I would be more then honored to help bring this into VR if needed:)

Edited by 3rdaxis, 16 September 2021 - 01:40 AM.

[TNT2]

Amazing flupper!

[vogliadicane]

insane!

[mfuegemann]

This is looking great. Insane.

[ashleyb]

Holy smoke, this looks good! Amazing work @flupper1. Thanks for all of your tables, all of them a favourite of mine, especially white water.

[Nemo]

Next level for sure ! .....just amazing

[kds70]

Amaaaazing stuff ...

[Fleep]

Flupper1 thx for sharing the progress

Terrific work right there

I’ll just add that this finally showcases my work for a brand new authentic Whirlwind mechanical sounds in there as well.

This wouldn’t be possible without the help of @Blackmoor and @wrd1972
Thanks a lot guys for your help getting these Whirlwind recordings


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Edited by Fleep, 16 September 2021 - 11:44 PM.

[flupper1]

Yes, @Fleep, thanks for your wonderful mechanical sound work!!

[dielated]

Oh man that just doubles my excitement to have Fleep bring a customized audioscape for this table. I cant say how beyond I am excited to see how this all comes together! Really inspiring stuff!

[Mancave]

Wow! Just wow. Trots op je!! Amazing work...again and again!!!! Looking forward to release BIG time! Thanks Flupper1.

[teisen]

Putting pictures of real table and saying that the work is being done is easy...rsrsrsrssr....I can only believe by seeing, or rather playing....rsrsrsr

 

jokes aside... the thing is at a really insane level! the talent that some people have is really enviable... I wish I had at least 10% of that sensitivity.

 

flupper1, simply amazing your work!

 

Thank you very much

 

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