Police Force (Williams 1989) VPW

“573… Be on the lookout. We’ve got a new VPW release on the loose.”

This one has been a looong time coming. A few years ago, gtxjoe stripped this mod of a mod down, added fleep sounds and nfozzy physics, dialed in the ramp—basically did all the VPX specific stuff with a special precision and flare only a VPX O.G. long time veteran like gtxjoe could do. Then Benji went on a long hiatus, possibly never to return.

Was Police Force to be on-hold forever? That’s what it looked like. But then…

Enter Niwak, revolutionizing VPX into the next era. And after seeing what could be done with the new light-baking with Blender Toolkit, Benji had to come back and finish what he started. First, he had to learn Blender. Uh…okay. But that turned out to be doable (with many tips from Tomate, Bord, Flux and more).

And with tons of help from this whole bang-up crew—this tool-kitted version of Police Force is finally out in the wild.

Special thanks to Jon Osborn who let Benji take apart, photograph, and measure a Police Force pin he was fixing up, which is what got this whole project moving forward.

VPW SQUAD

Benji - table lead, toolkit lighting/rendering

Apophis - toolkit script-side integration, miscellaneous script magic - lieutenant programmer

GTXJoe - Initial table side development

Flux - LOTS of toolkit tech support and bug squashing while Benji learned the ropes

Tomate - Plastic Ramp modeling, lots of miscellaneous help and tips for Blender and Toolkit

Sixtoe - Table tweaks and improvements

BradX - Full playfield and plastics redraw

TastyWasps - VR Room

Leojreimroc  - VR Backglass and fixes

Niwak - Blender Magickit

Flupper - Police car model

VPW testing crew – PinStratsDan, Studlygoorite, Eighties8, HauntFreaks, bietekwiet, ClarkKent, jsm174, somatik, BountyBob, DgrimmReaper, bord