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[Slydog43]

sexy

[Arcade4]

Interesting, maybe she should stick to pinball voice overs. 

[jkimbrell]

WOW.... I had no idea what I was missing with the head working right!! never played this is "real life" so I assumed it was working when it was calibrating and rotating at the beginning  NVRAM replacement fixed it for me.  The physmod version plays so awesome that it convinced me to go ahead and setup pinballx to launch this w/ physmod5 exe.  Thank you UW, this my new "check this out" table!  Taking the throne from your Monster Bash   

[jmcgohon]

Is there something in script I can change to dim or lower the intensity of the lamps and flashers? I get a very small ball stutter when the lights go crazy and Im thinking if i adjusted them a little bit it could help. 

[dark]

Is there something in script I can change to dim or lower the intensity of the lamps and flashers? I get a very small ball stutter when the lights go crazy and Im thinking if i adjusted them a little bit it could help. 

you could comment flashers out by adding a " ' " before the flasher line for which ever flasher images you choose.

 

[edit]: Well gtxjoe would know better...lol

Edited by dark, 08 August 2014 - 07:36 PM.

[gtxjoe]

Anything is possible

 

Flasher and GI brightness can be dimmed by changing the max brightness value.  

Search for 255(I think I counted 7 locations) and change the value (50 should probably be the lowest).  Try 50 just to see how dim the table gets and then adjust to the value to your liking.  It will slightly reduce the amount of flasher lighting updates required (at 50, it only takes one update to reach max brightness, where at 255 it will take 6 updates) but not sure if it will reduce your stutter

 

The other thing to try is increasing the lamp and flash timer values so they don't update so often

FlasherTimer.Interval = 10

LampTimer.Interval = 30

 

Values are in msecs so for example if you increase Flasher to 20 you reduce the amount of flasher updates in half.  Same would apply for the lamps which manage the lights inserts

 

 

Awesome table by the way.  Congrats to all involved!

Edited by gtxjoe, 08 August 2014 - 05:25 PM.

[jkimbrell]

played this table for like an hour and a half straight last night (the physmod version).  Such a fun playing table, let alone how visually bad-ass it is.  

[jmcgohon]

Thanks! Helped a bit with the stutter. I only have a slight stutter problem when the ball is top speed and you get flashing from something like a 4 ramp combo. Making the lights less intense made the ball easier to see for my bad eyes. Thanks again to everyone involved with this table. I cant stop playing it. Gotta make that billionaires club!!

[slashbot]

played this table for like an hour and a half straight last night (the physmod version). Such a fun playing table, let alone how visually bad-ass it is.

Have you tried the physicsmod2 version, somehow i prefer this version above the v5?


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[The Loafer]

Physmod v2 of this new version or you mean Physmod v2 of the old table?

[slashbot]

Vp Physicsmod2 of with the new table seems to plays better for my personal taste.



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[rein1969]

after playing about 50 games of this beauty i found an interesting error in the gameplay/physics. Ball and flipper behaviour is perfect, just like the real table but... ball movement is too fast when you do a shot with your flippers on the rubbers next to the entrance ramps..the ball bounces too fast/quick back and it's almost impossible to react that fast..  can this be adjusted to slow down the ballspeed when it bounce back from the rubbers?   I hope i explained it well, thanx in adcance !

[85vett]

Yes, go into all the rubbers and change the elasticity setting of them.  This will reduce the bounce of the ball. 

 

I can tell you though that with my real BOP (with white rubbers) it does that pretty often.  BOP is brutal if you miss your shot and the ball can get going pretty fast and out of control quickly.

 

One other thing you can do is change the flipper masss which will reduce the power of the shot.  Be careful with changes with this as it can make the ramp shots harder too.

 

In relatily, there is no "one" physics setting as everyone will want different things. That is the fun thing about VP is you can taylor the game towards your taste.  What I did with the physics was try to get a good playing machine that was right in the middle of the settings that would cover most poeople but be close enough for others they could adjust themselves to make it play how they like.  Play with the flippers, gravity, table friction, elasticity, rebound, etc till it meets your desire.

Edited by 85vett, 12 August 2014 - 01:30 PM.

[dark]

I haven't checked on this thread in a while, but last I did I reported a few small bugs with the physmod version, I'm just wondering if any work has been done to remedy them and when an update to that may become available?

[retrogamer01]

I put in 50 or so games on this today and found a few inconsistencies.  

 

1) Skill shot is very tricky and I regularly end up in 25K even at various pull back lengths.

2) Occasionally heading up the shuttle launch ramp at a high rate of speed I ended up with a small wheel spin, however not complaining when it did this on timed jackpot.  

3) Heading up heart ramp twice it got stuck at the top of the ramp right under the activator.  Again, tons of points, but probably a bug.

 

I've been running this on 9.9.  I'll try the Physmod version to see if those things still exist.

 

Thanks again for a wonderful table.  This is a significant improvement over the other version I was running!

[dark]

Everything but that shuttle ramp bug have been mentioned previously.  The physmod has many more degrees of pullback on the skill shot and as a result is very different from the normal version (for the better I think).  Physmod version has a few unique bugs of its own, which are mostly cosmetic.....I really like the physmod version, it feels great how it plays and I'm anxiously awaiting the next version of it to see the few bugs I reported fixed - love this table.

[enkine]

I have that shuttle ramp problem also. It makes shuttle ramp shot impossible. Sometimes small wheel starts and sometimes ball disappears to 'somewhere'. Only way to resolve this is to use ball through (which loses ball)

 

Edit. Sometimes I also get this error: 'Script error/Line 582/Overflow 'CInt''.

Edited by enkine, 20 August 2014 - 12:26 PM.

[Guus]

The NVRAM worked for one time okay with the head calibration.

 

With the next match the head calibration didn't work anymore; same issue.

[allknowing2012]

Late to the party -- but I wasnt able to get the head to turn with original version either. (Nothing like a Christmas break to play a lot of pinball)  It would calibrate fine, but multi-ball would not go in the eyes as the head had never turned. The physmod table handles the head turn fine for me but the ball gets caught in a couple places. Nothing a nudge cant correct..so perhaps that's realistic :-)  Hung up on the gate and hung up on the top of the heart path after dropping thru the hole.. Either case it was just a matter of nudging. Also had to set the directb2s to exe to get rid of the bad lag.  (I am playing with newer l8 version of the rom as well)

[update] no spinning head on occasion while playing via pinballx in the cabinet :-(

Edited by allknowing2012, 29 December 2014 - 03:50 PM.

[robertms]

Unclewilly, I know this is old news but I just had a chance to play this table extensively and couldn't believe how incredible it was in EVERY detail, graphics, animations, lighting PM5 physics and all. Thank you, you truly are a VP master!