Twilight Zone (Bally 1993) VPW Edition

"You have just crossed over... into the Twilight Zone"

Finally. Been a while coming hasn't it?

VPW are very proud to present Twilight Zone by Bally/Midway, arguably one of the best pinball machines ever made!

Niwak wanted to test the idea of making his "VPX Blender Toolkit" back in 2022, and decided to use Twilight Zone as his first experiment in importing and converting a VPX table, a screenshot was posted of the test render and everyone was, like, "ooooo".

However... The tools were in their infancy and Niwak wasn't happy with how the table looked in motion compared to real life, so decided to go and rewrite both pinmame and vpx so that it could do real fading PWM lighting and numerous other things.
While this was going on rothbauer and nfozzy looked at the physics and then Sixtoe rebuilt and simplified the table in VPX after we found the dimensions of the original table were incorrect.

The project then went on hold as we wanted 10.8.0 to stabilise as this table needed the new features to work properly, and we're happy enough with where VPX 10.8.0 RC4 is that we've now punted this out the door into your caring arms.

Make sure to check out the in game "F12" options menu for loads of fancy mods!

This table has gone through some of the best hands in the VPX community at one point or another in its history;

VPW Anomalies
Project Leads - Niwak & Sixtoe
Niwak - Blender Toolkit, Scripting, Inventing.
Sixtoe - VPX Rebuild, Script Stuff, VR Stuff, General Dogsbody.
rothbauer - Physics and Guidance.
apophis - Script Updates & Various Tweaks.
leojreimrc - FSS Backglass.
Darth Vito - 360 room.
mcarter78 - 360 room 3D text, script tweaks.
Flupper & Tomate - Graphics Advice.
nfozzy - physics advice and scripting.
Testing - AstroNasty, DGrimmReaper, Cliffy, Primtime5k, Studlygoorite, Lumi, somatik, BountyBob, RetroRitchie, DarthVito, Dr.Nobody, Rigo, Pinballfan2018, DaRdog, Manu, Flux, geradg

VPW Edition Based on;
Remaster by Skitso, rothbauerw and Bord
Which was based on;
VPX recreation by Ninuzzu & Tom Tower
Which was based on;
FP conversion by Coindropper

Previous Mods Credits/Thanks
Tom Tower for the mini clock, pyramid, piano, camera, gumball machine models.
nFozzy for scripting complicated things.
Fleep for Audio system.
Hauntfreaks for the Mystic Seer Toy.
rom for "Robbie the Robot" model.
Flupper for retexturing and remeshing the plastic ramp.
JPSalas for the help with the inserts and the script.
Clark Kent for early graphics and physics work.

Required Software (64-bit versions)
VPX 10.8.0 RC4 or later: https://github.com/vpinball/vpinball/releases/tag/v10.8.0-1975-051104c
VPinMame 3.6.0-998 or later: https://github.com/vpinball/pinmame/releases/tag/v3.6.0-998-a77c2d2
B2S Server 2.1.1 or later (if B2S used): https://github.com/vpinball/b2s-backglass/releases/tag/v2.1.1