I'm about halfway through with Mario Bros. (bomb mode, all the ? block sequences, and castle sequences to go). It's taken a lot of time to understand the editor. It's very systematic. LOTS and LOTS of trial and error to see what works best. For the main part I've just been searching vpuniverse and reading the pin2dmd.com/editor page.

It took me a while to figure out how to get a single frame color mask to save. Ended up having to click copytonext/prev which causes a java error and then it saves or is retained. Then for whatever reason out of the blue my color palette indexes would be off by one but only when exporting to realpin. Everything in the XML everything was pointed to the correct color palette and in the editor when you look at it. Come to find out there was a duplicate color palette index and no clue how that happened. This is my experience thus far. It is a lot of fun, just takes a bit of time

yeah I struggled for a bit learning the new version of the editor myself. The apply palette button was moved to here (pic below). I love the additional keyframe masks, but having a hard time understanding the color masks now for scenes, as you can't copy and paste like you used to be able to. An there seems to be a new color mask mode which wasn't there before. Would be nice to have some info on each new editor when it comes out. there are occasional references to changes listed in this thread however http://vpuniverse.com/forums/topic/2268-pin2dmd-editor/

BTW I'm nearly complete (working on the last scene now)..woohoo

Scene_Palette (resized).png

hmm..looks like switching editors mid project might not be a good idea, as most of the stuff I did prior to the editor switch is not working. Looks like I may need to redo key frames prior to the new editor(or something else). I haven't validated this yet however. Still running FW 2.41 would that have anything to do with it?

UPDATE: Yep looks like deleting and re-adding the key frames works to restore. Nothing is working with the keyframe masks above 9 though..assuming this may be due to firmware, but will wait for confirmation.

Super Mario Bros completed (Still will be adding some additional keyframes for question block scenes, but all in due time)
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/pin2dmd-colorization-of-super-mario-bros