Content Provider arngrim Posted June 3, 2014 Content Provider Share Posted June 3, 2014 Wow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxfx4u Posted June 3, 2014 Share Posted June 3, 2014 super nice!! Love the helicopter, jet and those spotlights look great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArkMalmeida Posted June 3, 2014 Share Posted June 3, 2014 Really coming together nicely. Can't wait to see the finished product! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadowsclassic Posted June 3, 2014 Share Posted June 3, 2014 Hey the jet camo works really well! I was scrolling back and forth wondering where the hell people were seeing a jet, then I finally spotted it. Now I wonder how I did not see it in the first place. Lol. The table is coming along nicely, you're doing a great job! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Content Provider freneticamnesic Posted June 4, 2014 Author Content Provider Share Posted June 4, 2014 Status update: primitive drop targets! only a few more plastics left, still mostly unplayable. tonight: primitive posts, I'm doing some cool things with primitives on this table, that will likely become my standard method of building. A few things I have done here will be incorporated on a new version of Sharkey's Shootout I'll release in a couple weeks. I think these flippers are goddamn beautiful! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CapsLock42 Posted June 4, 2014 Share Posted June 4, 2014 Getting more and more excited for this one, I've played one for real at my local Cinemark, but its been broken for the last 6 months and I do miss it. Its looking fantastic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coolball Posted June 4, 2014 Share Posted June 4, 2014 Looks so amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Content Provider freneticamnesic Posted June 6, 2014 Author Content Provider Share Posted June 6, 2014 60%60% More primitives, some fine tuning, messed around with making some primitive ramps but gave up on it, didn't think it looked like enough of an improvement over the VP ramps so I'll stick with these until I can fine tune my ramp building It won't end up being this dark, I still need to add lighting so it will get brighter, don't worry And a bonus, something I have been working on that is so dumb and subtle, but I love it - the bubble in the playfield level reacts to nudging Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
etherealmusic478 Posted June 6, 2014 Share Posted June 6, 2014 Coming along very nicely there! You've made some real progress on this table! At this rate, the table might be finished next week! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Content Provider freneticamnesic Posted June 6, 2014 Author Content Provider Share Posted June 6, 2014 Coming along very nicely there! You've made some real progress on this table! At this rate, the table might be finished next week! hey now don't expect that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxfx4u Posted June 6, 2014 Share Posted June 6, 2014 You aint kiddin, that it cool!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Content Provider 85vett Posted June 6, 2014 Content Provider Share Posted June 6, 2014 I really like your wireform ramp. Is it a model from FP? That's one thing I really have a hard time with is the wire form ramps. Hard to make them look realistic. I've seen a couple people using primatives for it but have no clue how they are building them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Content Provider freneticamnesic Posted June 6, 2014 Author Content Provider Share Posted June 6, 2014 I really like your wireform ramp. Is it a model from FP? That's one thing I really have a hard time with is the wire form ramps. Hard to make them look realistic. I've seen a couple people using primatives for it but have no clue how they are building them. Yes that wire ramp is from the FP version of 24 I did a bit of experimenting with creating my own ramps (not wire yet, may be even easier) and think they should be relatively easy to do. At the very least, using this model in VP was very easy. The hard part, I think, is getting your dimensions accurate. I had to scale it a little funny to get it to line up, since the FP table and my table were built using different dimensions. I used francisco666's base ramp to start and created a 3d model of the plastic ramps to scale, so I know that's easy - I just wasn't satisfied with the way the plastic ramps looked. VP built ramp on the left, 3d modeled ramp on the right Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Content Provider Javier15 Posted June 6, 2014 Content Provider Share Posted June 6, 2014 The ramp looks incredible in 3d. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Content Provider freneticamnesic Posted June 6, 2014 Author Content Provider Share Posted June 6, 2014 The ramp looks incredible in 3d. You think the plastic ramp on the right looks better than the left? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Content Provider Javier15 Posted June 6, 2014 Content Provider Share Posted June 6, 2014 Yes, the right ramp looks spectacular. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Content Provider freneticamnesic Posted June 7, 2014 Author Content Provider Share Posted June 7, 2014 I really like your wireform ramp. Is it a model from FP? That's one thing I really have a hard time with is the wire form ramps. Hard to make them look realistic. I've seen a couple people using primatives for it but have no clue how they are building them. I just did a wire ramp from scratch in FP and imported into VP - it's super easy. If you need help PM me and I can explain everything There's a lot of info here http://www.vpforums.org/index.php?showtopic=25843 And most of it you can ignore, the steps are really quite easy. Export your VP blueprint Translate your VP table size to FP units (kiwi says 2 VP units = 1mm in FP, but technically it doesn't matter, I never scale my ramps properly and have to adjust the scaling of the object in VP) Import your VP blueprint to FP and use as your table image Create ramp in FP like you would in VP Add your objects, and the exciting things are what you can do to the transform points - these are the rings. In FP there's like 15 different ring types. After you get the ramp you want in FP, save it as a table Open Blender (free, fairly complicated but you only need a few pieces of info to make this work) Install the MS3D importer plugin Install the FP importer plugin http://www.vpforums.org/index.php?showtopic=25843 Import your .fpt table Move things around in Blender if needed (I needed to move the end pieces to line up with the wire ramp, this is just moving it along the axis) The lengthwise wire in FP ramps is imported as a curve while the rings are imported as meshes. Everything needs to be mesh, so select the curves and convert to> mesh from curve Select your new mesh wires and go to edit mode > faces > triangulate faces (I have determined that all faces in VP need to be triangulated, otherwise you get strange texture issues) Now select every object in your ramp and join it as one unit Now you can export your wire ramp as an .obj - in the export options, make sure Write Normals and Triangulate Faces is checked, then export Now you can import into VP! Easy. I use the Chrome-Silver texture but you can try different metal textures to get desired look. Once I figure out why FP is not displaying my playfield image in the editor, I will do a video tutorial Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
open6l Posted June 8, 2014 Share Posted June 8, 2014 Sounds like u are using the dlls from the 17x build of FP 2.5 instead of the 16x ones. The 178 are newer are more optimized but they also disable the image loading in the editor (hence the optimization). This assuming that you are in fact running the 2.5 build that came with updated dlls. Once I figure out why FP is not displaying my playfield image in the editor, I will do a video tutorial Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Content Provider freneticamnesic Posted June 8, 2014 Author Content Provider Share Posted June 8, 2014 Sounds like u are using the dlls from the 17x build of FP 2.5 instead of the 16x ones. The 178 are newer are more optimized but they also disable the image loading in the editor (hence the optimization). This assuming that you are in fact running the 2.5 build that came with updated dlls. I figured it out, in the editor you can choose to load images in editor which appears to override the checkbox in the option bar on the right, and then I had to re-load the table Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Content Provider freneticamnesic Posted June 9, 2014 Author Content Provider Share Posted June 9, 2014 Well I spent a long time working on GI this weekend, felt like sharing a video here Please ignore the safehouse and suitcase movement, I'm still working on them Still a long way to go - need to finish table lighting and then VISUALLY I should be complete, but gameplay needs to be fixed, and a few more switches.......ah it's overwhelming Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpiffyRob Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 Looking great, fren! Really fun watching this come together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coolball Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 WOW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
etherealmusic478 Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 Excellent work so far!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wowter Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 looking nice so far. One of the most difficult items to do seeems to be the spotlights (the lighting as well as the graphics themselves). I have yet to come across a table in which they look realistic. (i personally would leave them out, and have the light magically appear from under the plastics....) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Content Provider freneticamnesic Posted June 9, 2014 Author Content Provider Share Posted June 9, 2014 looking nice so far. One of the most difficult items to do seeems to be the spotlights (the lighting as well as the graphics themselves). I have yet to come across a table in which they look realistic. (i personally would leave them out, and have the light magically appear from under the plastics....) I'll release a wowter-mod with no fun GI I personally enjoy the FOM tables and night mods... There's various script options I can set up, you can say 1=full gi, 2=half gi, 3=no gi... I'll see what I can do, but I can't make any promises. This is my second full build and it's basically from the ground up, adding GI options IS possible, but I have never done it before. I can learn, but it's not worth it to me if 400 people download the table and 3 people change the setting, you know? That being said, anyone is free to mod the table and upload a day-mod version if they want to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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