23 replies to this topic

[nikodemus]

Hi guys,

I have a cabinet setup with Pinball x, VP9.9 & FP all working fine. With VPX all the tables are in desktop mode & i can't get them to rotate for cabinet mode. Any ideas where I might be going wrong. Some of the tables coming out for VPX look amazing but I just can't play any of them.

Thanks in advance

Nick

[kiwi]

Go in the video options of VPX and check the checkbox "Use always FS backdrop settings"

[nikodemus]

Done that already Kiwi as it seems the option to choose but all tables are still in desktop mode.

Just can't figure it out. Any other ideas?

[gtxjoe]

Tell us a table release you are testing with so we can help.

[kiwiBri]

Hi guys , just found this thread as I am having the same issue. I have the issue with VPX Addams family.

 

cheers

[randr]

Click backdrop in editor and adjust the FS settings use another table as a base

[kiwiBri]

Click backdrop in editor and adjust the FS settings use another table as a base

 

ah, so its a known common issue? 

[randr]

It's not an issue. The author plays in portrait so you get it how he saves it. You can export layback now in xml and import it so easy to fit your setup

Edited by randr, 20 March 2017 - 02:37 AM.

[BorgDog]

It's not an issue. Some people have their cabinet with the playfield in portrait orientation and build tables that way, like the vpx Adams family, and if your playfield is landscape you need to adjust it. It's easy and fast once you've done a couple.

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[randr]

Tie I think

[kiwiBri]

Ah ha! Thanks for the explanation. I'll adjust it tonight.

[Rajo Joey]

If you are in edit-mode press F6 and the table starts.

Then you can easily adjust the settings with the flipper- and nudge-buttons.

In vpx it is implemented, in vp9 you have to use a special exe.

Can't find the thread for this exe at the moment. So I don't can tell you where to download.

Edited by Joey2001, 20 March 2017 - 02:01 PM.

[nikodemus]

Thank you all for the advice. I'll be on it this evening & let you know how I get on.

Great community,

Thanks again

Nick

[B0nesai]

Hi - I've just come back to VP after a very very long time as I had a spare tv and have made a cabinet. I have this same issue - I have used F6 and the keys to get the playfiled on ATF exactly as i need it - but can't work out how to save it... what am I missing?

 

Thanks

[Rajo Joey]

Hi - I've just come back to VP after a very very long time as I had a spare tv and have made a cabinet. I have this same issue - I have used F6 and the keys to get the playfiled on ATF exactly as i need it - but can't work out how to save it... what am I missing?
 
Thanks

If you close the table and go back to the editor, you'll have to save him in the editor.

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Edited by Joey2001, 06 August 2017 - 08:17 AM.

[arcade warrior]

I am having issue with Doctor Who VPX portrait mode.

 

Have tried everything suggested but no dice. Please help

 

Adjusted Camera but still no go

[mrjcrane]

So my approach with my cabinet and the tables is not like what about 90% of the other Cabinet Users do. In addition to the checkmark about FS Backdrop mode mentioned above, I have the OS in my cabinet oriented into Portrait Mode (1080x1920) instead of Landscape mode (1920x1080). Then for each new table I download, I rotate the FULLSCREEN table version layout from 270 degrees, back to 0, set the X scale to 1.3 or 1.4, set the Y scale to 1.0 and remove the X offset completeley, put it back to 0. This fixes most table for my purposes and I don't have to break the DESKTOP version.

 

I like a portrait OS because when I drop out to the VPX Table Edit Mode, the table orientation is facing me directly for editing, as it will be presented in my cabinet, and is not twisted on it's side. Also like Portrait OS because Pinball FX3 and Pinball Arcade can handle it too. So I don't have to keep flipping screens around.

 

I keep wishing for a 4th table presentation mode (Called Custom or Portrait) in the next version of VPX(11) were the tables can be reoriented to 0 degrees instead of 270 degrees, for cabinet use. The 3 current presentation modes are 1)DESKTOP 2)FULLSCREEN 3)FULL_SINGLE_SCREEN, I keep hoping for the 4th, which is "CUSTOM", so I don't have to keep tweaking the FULLSCREEN table layout as the original designers intended the POV to look a certain way.

Edited by mrjcrane, 09 April 2020 - 07:47 AM.

[JLouLoulou]

So my approach with my cabinet and the tables is not like what about 90% of the other Cabinet Users do. In addition to the checkmark about FS Backdrop mode mentioned above, I have the OS in my cabinet oriented into Portrait Mode (1080x1920) instead of Landscape mode (1920x1080). Then for each new table I download, I rotate the FULLSCREEN table version layout from 270 degrees, back to 0, set the X scale to 1.3 or 1.4, set the Y scale to 1.0 and remove the X offset completeley, put it back to 0. This fixes most table for my purposes and I don't have to break the DESKTOP version.

 

I like a portrait OS because when I drop out to the VPX Table Edit Mode, the table orientation is facing me directly for editing, as it will be presented in my cabinet, and is not twisted on it's side. Also like Portrait OS because Pinball FX3 and Pinball Arcade can handle it too. So I don't have to keep flipping screens around.

 

I keep wishing for a 4th table presentation mode (Called Custom or Portrait) in the next version of VPX(11) were the tables can be reoriented to 0 degrees instead of 270 degrees, for cabinet use. The 3 current presentation modes are 1)DESKTOP 2)FULLSCREEN 3)FULL_SINGLE_SCREEN, I keep hoping for the 4th, which is "CUSTOM", so I don't have to keep tweaking the FULLSCREEN table layout as the original designers intended the POV to look a certain way.

 I'm totally agree with you. I do the same. Today, we have software that they work great in portrait mode.. So why to continue to make table for landscape in cabinet mode. It's a good suggestion to make 4th view. I think, there is some things need to evolved. This is not because before VP not working in portrait, that we must always continue to do the same while we can improve

[LynnInDenver]

The "run it in Landscape" thing is a legacy inertia thing, I believe from when video cards didn't do rotation at all (because who runs a monitor in portrait?). Inertia because, well, since it's been done that way for as long as the software has been around, that's the default that tables are expected to adhere to. In fact, most people have been recommending just going with the landscape rather than fiddling with the POV on every table. My experience is it adds to the work of getting a front end working 100% right if you have any software at all that can't run with landscape, and it requires one to run at least one piece of added software at all times. Plus, it does almost force you to put the pincab at one end of a lineup, and if the only place you can put it is with the left side against the wall, makes it about three times as hard to administer unless you're willing to constantly toggle the orientation back and forth.

[ManWorkingHere]

Go in the video options of VPX and check the checkbox "Use always FS backdrop settings"

This answer is still helpful four years later !!!

 

I accidentally wrecked VPX trying to downgrade to 10.6 and run the Batman Tribute version with PUP stuff in my cabinet.  Refreshing VPX 'back' to a working version lost various settings.  I am so glad to have found this answer.