Quoted from 3rdaxis:Possibly, Been messing around with Future pinball using pre-rendered images. Difficult though to simulate the ball being "hidden" behind objects from the camera's perspective but possible. Would be awesome. I'm sure pinball video games will get to this level one day. Maybe i should start a kickstarter? hahaha
Don't waste your time in FP. The game play is horrific. Give physmod5 for visual pinball a try if you want to try and build it in a running enviroment. Still wont ever be like the real thing but at least you'll be able to hit what you aim for. With the new VP you can use 3d models via primatives. It would be a resource hog but you could make everything out of a model if you wanted to.