I'm also very interested. I look forward to seeing how this turns out!

Please take my money. Can't wait to buy this!

So excited for this!

One for me too please!

I disagree. When people say 'I want one' it only tells the maker there is a ready market and incentivizes him to bring it to market.

It would be much worse if he didn't see there was a market for his product. We have seen this with other announced mods.

Later the maker gets to choose his price point and we get to choose if we think it's worth it. Very different than a pre-order situation which the maker is very wisely avoiding.

I want one and will most likely buy but 99.9%+ of the people who play my CFTBL don't even know there should be a hologram. I have to decide if the extra bling will drive more plays since mine is on route.

Jeez, cut him some slack. The guy is working on this in his spare time, and has multiple side projects as well.

And I don’t think getting excited is putting the cart before the horse. Most of us have seen what video looks on small LCD screens on pinball machines. It won’t be much different. Now if he was asking for pre-order money I’d be shouting for video proof, too. But he’s not.

I’m content to wait until he gets it right, and I’d prefer he got his automated systems debugged before releasing product. Sounds like he’s doing all the right things to me.

pinballsp thanks for the great updates. Very excited to see this!

Sorry am I missing something? That's 3 pounds right? Seems like about what it should weigh to me.

I'd rather have a heavier monitor with a solid case than a flimsy TFT with no case please.

But as long as you spec the exact monitor that I can buy locally, I'm happy to go with that too.

Me too! I’m very excited about this product, but I really need to see video of it mounted and working in a creech before I can commit to buying.

He probably just underestimated the production time to make the video clips. Happens all the time, I should know.

I’m looking forward to seeing it when it’s ready.

Still interested, but will also back the better product, whichever it is.

I'd also say any product cross-posting is fair game if done professionally. Competition benefits everyone.

Very excited to see this in action.

I would lose the rotating cube entirely. Keep it simple. Use the full screen.

The video has sound, where will sound play when the videos play? Or is that just for jazzing up the youtube video?

These recent videos are looking quite good. I'm excited about the product based on these test videos.

Regarding 3D modeling, I agree with the other poster, doing proper 3D animation is costly and does require a lot of different skills to give you a convincing result in the end. So you're adding technical as well as artistic risk, adding cost and adding time. I'm fine with waiting, but I think the if quality of these last two video is the same for the rest of the videos you are quite good for a version 1, personally.

However, I'm quite worried about tapping board power. Would you please consider an option that wouldn't pull power from a 25 year old power driver board? I would feel a lot better about that. I've had a hell of a lot of problems over the years with my WPC power driver boards and I really don't want to add more stress to them.

I must have missed that, thanks. I look forward to seeing how you solve the AC connection problem.

Looking very good so far!

I'd be happy with a solution like that.

I really doubt the cube and smaller bubble videos will be visible to the player. Consider making all the animations full screen.

Great progress so far!

Nice to see the work being done in Blender. I look forward to seeing the rigging complete and animations when they are ready. Thanks for the updates!

I don't get why people are shitting on this product. The guy isn't asking a cent in advance. He owes all of us exactly nothing. If he wants to polish it for another year, that's his decision. I was skeptical about the videos but they are actually looking great and keeping right with the theme of the game.

And regarding lazy board design or inelegant code, who gives a shit? He's not writing commercial airline autopilot software. All I care is that it works, looks great and has a reasonable price point.

IDK maybe because I work in video games I'm more sympathetic to someone who is clearly passionate about his product and is willing to go the extra distance to get it all right. He's clearly making progress, making regular updates, and has gone from prototyping to finalizing key aspects of the product. I mentioned months ago that the videos would take a hell of a long time to get right. They are, and I'm gratified and excited that the developer here is taking the time to make them right.

And you know, it's his right to take as long as he wants, work with whomever he wants, kill projects at his own whim for whatever GD reason he wants too. Get over it, man.

Personally I really like seeing all the versions and going along with the journey. He's clearly looking for feedback from buyers, and clearly taking it on board. What The literal F is wrong with that?

And you act like he owes you something. Last I looked, you weren't an investor or his boss.

In my experience those business and marketing fucks that want to monetize the air we breathe and push half-baked product out the door to meet their quarterly profit goals are the real problem.

This guy? It's obvious to me that he's taking his time doing the right things - not releasing early, keeping to his vision while taking on board customer input, posting frequent updates. He's worked on several projects. Some didn't work out. Do you know anyone with a 100% track record? In any industry?

I'm happy to wait until he thinks his product is ready. It looks to be coming together really well!

I have my doubts that sauce or smoke will even be visible to the player. Personally I feel this one is more than acceptable to ship.