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Planet Visual Pinball Engine
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Overview
The Visual Pinball Engine (which we call "VPE") is an open source pinball simulator that you can use to create pinball games for Windows, macOS, and Linux. It's based on the famous Visual Pinball (often abbreviated "VP", or "VPX" for its latest version 10) meaning VPE's physics simulation matches that in VPX, and it can read and write the same file format.
VPE uses Unity for its underlying game architecture. Unity is one of the leading cross-platform game engines and provides VPE with an advanced render pipeline that produces high-quality visuals and is continuously maintained and updated to work with new hardware features. Unity also comes with an amazing editor, which VPE extends to make the table creation process as easy as possible.
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VR and AR is great with a full size cabinet. Especially if you have SFF and DOF in the physical cabinet and your cab aligns 1:1 to the virtual cab. VR alone is great but it's way better with a full size cab for the controls, feedback and the cabinet weight for the nudging etc. With VPX VR, tables have to be manually aligned with your cabinet since it cant detect the virtual lockdown bar and automatically align the Virtual lockdown bar with the real physical one. Maybe with VPE that will be a feature one day so that VR and AR can automatically align the Virtual cab with your physical one. -
By foofoorabbit · Posted
Until holographic displays exist and are cheap and common, a 2d display will always have some serious drawbacks that even head-tracking won’t solve. -
Looks amazing in 3d Freezy Just wish cabinet users didn't have to have a static table image, as you lose all the amazing feel. Wish i knew what the solution was, maybe a better implementation of the xbox kinnect head tilting mods people use. VR is pretty useless for a cabinet setup, since if you can't see the cab you may as well not even have one. Quest AR mode maybe (wouldn't need a real TV in your cab with this setup) , but it's probably a bit cumbersome wearing a headset for hours. 3d tv/glasses never quite got to 4K either. I think head tilting and tracking would give the best 3d representation of the table. -
Make sure you are also following the main VPE update thread if you want to follow the general progress of VPE.
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None of those are tested properly yet and I don't even know if they are gonna make it into main. So.. would be cool to not promote this too much.
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