thanks, yep! I recently picked some up for TWD. The nice thing about the FAST LED's (or any RGB style) is that I can make a light show for the flickering effect, and then still be able to play other colored shows on the same bulb - which is the plan here. Flickering normally, and then flash a cool show on them when the ball is traveling thru the house, or when the house scoop shot is open.
Long time since I have posted. Not a loss of time though.. I have been working thru a lot of audio files. I pulled everything I could use from the soundtrack, which meant using Audacity to record sections and chop up stuff.. get it so each music track can loop correctly on beat. I think I have about 25-30 audio Music tracks now. The 3 balls are split into random pools of 5 "songs" for each ball -- so you never get the same song for a ball or for a complete game. How many combinations does that make? Been a while since I've done that math lol.. I think if you multiply 1/5 * 1/5 * 1/5 you get the chances of having the same single combination.. which is less than 1%. Is there 125 combinations? I also have "intro" music for every track, for when the ball hits the shooter lane. It loops while the ball sits there, and the main music kicks in when you shoot the ball.
Got a lot of sound effects starting to be implemented, and some quotes. I have most of the movie to still go thru minute by minute to pull quotes. It's tedious, I'll be honest. But it's really cool to hear them played back while in a game.
Implemented attract flipper press quotes.
Implemented a sound/light show for when you start a game (canceled by pressing both flippers)
1 mode is partially done.. I am having some mechanical difficulties.
Added lane change for the soap lanes (by pop bumpers) and awards for completion.
Other random code stuff..
Also had some fun - I had an idea for the shadow diverter. This diverts to the group lock. The idea is that you collect 4 groups (ramp shots), and it diverts for a lock. then 4 more groups and it diverts for the 2nd lock. Plan is to model a church that will sit over the locks (like the church that the narrator goes to for meditation).. this starts meditation multiball.
For now, here's a shot of this clipboard I made that screws into the diverter.
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