Tips for newbs part 2 (FULLDMD setup guide-ish)

[Vecna]

A full setup for:

3 monitor setup for full dmd with altcolor

 

Playfield 1920x1080 (monitor)

Backglass 1920 x1080 (monitor)

DMD 1600x900 (monitor)

 

Hello community, as always somebody who knows best comes along and does a dance trips and spills there drink over the crowd.

 

Vecna here (previously BGM).

 

I would like to clear up a few well deserved tips for the newbs. Me being one and the journey thus far I will cover my thoughts on dmd, screen res and a bunch of other things.

 

So here we go, this is just to help new people to save there precious life a few less gray hairs on the journey.

 

DMD (DONT MOVE DAMMIT!) Dot matrix display

 

So we have the dmd. What a little shi# you are. Setting this up was a struggle. Why because I use a calculator for counting sheep. The display X and Y I found a challenge really. But today I have finally set up my 3 screen fulldmd. And I'm here to help others. I know geniuses have written books about this but I'm not one of them. I'm you with that look on your face right now. Hugging the screen passionately for more help.

 

Dmd is in pinmame. In a file called dmddevice.ini and you can open that will notepad. Behind this is numbers and false and true words to answer your prayers for the correct placement of the dmd

 

Size? Is your bigger?... haha. I don't care you should see my display!

 

So size I chose 1300x200 using hauntfreaks backglass full dmd. And I changed that in vpinmame. Also I set x and y position to (these are for the 1600x900 monitor we are doing now)

 

Screen area

 

X- 2075

 

Y- 265

 

Dmd size

 

W- 1300

 

H- 200

 

And saved the device ini.

 

Now my monitors are 1920x1080 playfield

 

1920x1080 backglass

 

And 1600x900 DMD 

 

So we are talking monitor resolutions

 

The maximum for that is 1600x900 its not a 1080p monitor and I made it that. Quiet small monitor.

 

Any now I went to the screen res file and set

 

1920

1080

1920

1080

3

0

0

1600

900

-1600

0

0

 

This will give you the fulldmd if you now go to pinuppoper and turn off topper, dmd4.1

 

now turn on Fulldmd set to (forceback)

 

And save

 

Go to emulators, visual pinball x and click displays on (fulldmd) And tick box

 

(Don't forget to set your monitors in pinuppopper also making all the monitors fullscreen)

 

Now I would like to talk DMD types

 

There is virtual

 

There is dmdex

 

There is flexdmd 

 

There is lucky1

 

So virtual is for standard using pinmame you can turn this off with f1 and tick the dmd box to off, flexdmd and lucky1 I use external dmd box ticked and 4 colours ticked. 

 

Now if using lucky1 you can have altcolours in the altcolor folder in vpinmame

 

Do like this is you have a issue what I got to work.

 

I extracted 

 

Dmdex to the pinmame folder currently at 1.8.0. Or 1.9.0 in poppers update I belive.

 

This will add FlexUI to make sure there activated and ticked green

 

Now you can choose between lucky1 and flexdmd.

 

This may overwrite dmddevice.ini setting this part up

 

The numbers are easy to do again just so your familiar with the files and what to do.

 

I went with lucky1. There is a folder called plugins. X64 folder and x32

 

I extracted the lucky1 zip and cut the x64 over the x32bit and replaced the files then copied all the files and cut to the vpinmame folder (if this is incorrect please evalute) but my alt colours work flawless.

 

So if 2 dmds show just disable the virtual with f1 key and select use external dmd.

 

Today I spent along time updating

 

The dmd with

 

Dmdex

Lucky1

Dmd positions and the backglasses

 

Please if this helps I hope it does and if my screenres files help then I'm happy.

 

Please backup your dmddevice.ini_backup

Screenres_backup

 

By making copies but in regards to all the virtualdmd, flexdmd,dmdex,lucky1 it's just different variants with some added tools like dmdex if you get confused hope it clears a few things up.

 

This way my journey so I thought I'd share maybe others do other things and can add

 

My part 1 here