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[Pinball Ken]

I've been using the UltraPin VP, which has been altered a little for VP9, for a while now. I also have the advantage of seeing what GlobalVR did for the UltraPin VP in serving up 15 tables.

Here goes:

Backdrop screen - Gravity Constant 1.6774, Dampening Speed 75, Dampening Friction 0.95 (the other settings are default ones)

Table Screen - Top Glass Height 270 (but some tables have higher ramps etc), Table Field Height 0 (down -50), Table min/max 6/7 (or 4/5 for EM tables and sometimes less)

Walls on table - outer wall of metal elasticity 0 and friction of 0.001, metal elasticity 0.1 and friction 0.001, but friction points on tighter corners of 0.0015, then plastic 0.2, wood 0.3, rubber 0.45 and 5 scatter, loops and slings 0.6 with 10 scatter, all with 0.0015 friction (you get the idea), so plastic targets are 0.2 with 0.002 friction and 2.5 scatter

ramps - openings are generally 0.1 elasticity with no friction and scatter, then treated as plastic or metal thereafter

gates - need a boost to elasticity, even though metal to 0.5 and 0.015 friction to aid dampening

spinners - where wire gates have an elasticity of 0 and anitFric of 4.000002, but genuine spinners need 0.999999 instead

plungers - may need tweaking a bit 3 and 174 works well on a standard table, with default elsewhere

sling shots - force of 6, threshold of 3, elasticity of 0.6, with friction of 0.015 and scatter of 5 is great for modern tables (you can reduce hit threshold if you want it more sensitive)

OK, that's all for now!

PK

[TAB]

Thanks

[xzotic]

Excellent - sticky sticky sticky....

[Pinball Ken]

And, finally, flippers - first set the rubber thickness 7, offset height 20, width 20 for a modern 50 unit height flipper and put in a pivot of 51.5, then set at angles 120/67 and 240/293 and speed of 0.275 (or own choice in this and the next setting), strength of 1, elasticity of 0.45, return strength of 0.25, recoil velocity of 20 (this is important to get variety in your shots), power law 1 (this is the highest setting) and oblique correction 6.5 (this varies with the shape of the flipper, so draw the shape you're using and measure it with a protractor, to ensure you get help for shots up the center of the table)

This is just one example for a modern Bally/Williams flipper, the shape of Bally is a little different to the Williams one. Stern, Data East etc all have their differences, as do older flippers, so I can't possibly go into all the variations here. Angles for flippers vary also, both as to the original design and to wear and usage. Flippers will generally drop with usage and may travel farther. Power also changes, with a drop off with usage. Not all flippers are equal, either. Bally/Williams were using four different-power flippers at one stage, with two or more on the same multi-flippered table.

PK

[TAB]

Have used your settings to my new 'James Bond'
Works wonderful in this way
Many thanks again.
Perhaps your post should be pinned for all

[jpsalas]

Thanks PK!

[Noah Fentz]

Pinned!

Thanks PK!

[TAB]

Thanks Paul
Thinking this much important for some authors
Before testing and testing again...

[unclewilly]

Thanks Ken

[wtiger]

Thanks for the post PK!

[Lord Hiryu]

Hi Pinball Ken.
A big thanks for the advice.
I will try this settings on my new releases....

Excellent thread.

Cheers.

[steve-o-77]

thanks for everything

[scapino]

Thanks, Ken. This stuff will come in handy!

Kurt

[007]

oblique correction 6.5 (this varies with the shape of the flipper, so draw the shape you're using and measure it with a protractor, to ensure you get help for shots up the center of the table)

What am I measuring? The angle of the flipper from a centre line?
And how does that number correlate to the oblique setting?

Can someone please explain?

Thanks

[007]

What I mean is this:

The angle of the flipper in degrees is 3.86
I would then enter 3.86 as the oblique correction value.

Is this correct?



Edit: Or is it the angle of the flipper's sides, in my case 7.72?
That seems like it's in the area of what table builders are using, so that's probably right, right?

Edited by 7, 18 February 2011 - 09:10 PM.

[spanner]

(Couldn't think where to post this)

The plunger on Apollo13 FS gets stuck sometime,it happens a lot if you stretch the ball and it does if you don't sometimes... weird (see video )

If I save the table then it works..

Hope someone can help.

Edited by spanner, 12 January 2012 - 03:04 PM.