Solar Fire (Williams 1981)

Solar Fire (Williams 1981) is one of several Williams System 7 machines, and one of the most complicated rulesets of the time, but only had 507 units made.  It's a fun, fast table and higher scores are very achievable... 1M-2.5M is a good game.  The Solar Gun feature is fun to achieve, as a magnet slings a captured ball back and forth while generating points when lit.  There is a lot to do on this table with all the targets to hit to enable other functions.  You'll find similarities to Black Knight, Grand Lizard, and other tables of that era.  This table significantly utilizes magnasaves to keep your ball from going into the outlanes.   

I made Solar Fire a few years ago but was only an update to another table, and the playfield, graphics, etc were not great, nor accurate.  Also, I've learned so much more since then, and physics, graphics and everything is leaps further now, I decided to redo the table from scratch.

 
I found a playfield online that had accurate hole placement, and so @redbone completely upscaled, enhanced, and cleaned up the playfield.  This 3.0 version utilizes the latest VPW standards, physics, alllamps and 3D inserts, backglass for desktop, roth targets, standalone compatibility, sling corrections, updated flipper physics, VR and fully hybrid, Flupper style bumpers and lighting. Baked GI, walls, and created a playfield mesh for the saucer physics. Dozens of hours were spent studying gameplay videos to match the table shots and action.  

Also I loved what Mecha_Enron did in Cosmic Gunfight as far as an interactive tutorial, I decided to learn and implement in this table.  To utilize, go into the F12 menu and turn on the tutorial.

Also thanks to Primetime5k for implementing staged flippers and testing.  As well as to the VPW team for testing.

Once again, I've included several options in the F12 menu including various balls, ball brightness, GI brightness, insert brightness, flippers, caps, plastic edge colors, LUTs, and other VR stuff, including LED undercab lighting... AND the interactive tutorial.

For the ROM settings... The baseline comes pretty much correct except for the high score to date is defaulted to something high and the coins are defaulted to one credit is 3 games.  I've included a .nvram file that will adjust the coin/credits to 1 coin is 1 credit.  Also, I've set the default high score to 100,000.
 

Required Software (64-bit versions):

VPX 10.8.0 final release or later: https://github.com/vpinball/vpinball/releases
VPinMame v3.6.0-1227 or later: https://github.com/vpinball/pinmame/releases
B2S Server 2.1.3 or later (if B2S used): https://github.com/vpinball/b2s-backglass/releases