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hahaha, well i always try to model directly from the real machine. Luckily i have a good friend with a vast collection of beautifll pins at my disposal so thats a plus. I try to stay within 1/16 on things like placement, ramps and plastics and .001 small pieces like screws, posts etc. I measure the playfield in real life then possision the scanned image to match and its spot on. Its fun once you start putting it together and everything just fits. But, its a lot of work lol. There are SO many pieces. So far i have four pinball machines and every one gets a bit easier cause i have more and more pieces added to the library.
Yea, its always hard to find a good image of the cabinet art. this was one from somebody on VPForums that i asked to use but havn't recieved a responce from so i won't use it and besides i would rather have the original anyway.
Quoted from fiberdude120:This is cool but what is the purpose of it all when you are done?
So the "bulb" or glass part of the object you unchecked that under properties? I've never had to do that before, wierd. I'll have to do some testing and get to the bottom of it. I thought it had something to do with the lights settings itself.
Quoted from fusion301:I used to be a big lightwave user
What kind of work did you do in Lightwave? I used it back in college along with Softimage both great 3d programs.
Quoted from xsvtoys:Can't remember now
I'm going through and trying that now, Nothing else seems to get rid of the problem.
Holy motherboard of hell?! hahaha holy crap thats so nice kit! Yea that last render took 10.5 hours! Sucks. I would LOVE to do a fully rendered animation. No i didn't know that, wonder if he would like my work? I mean if you want to help it would be greatly appriciated. Maybe we can try a couple still's and see how it goes? I'll PM you.
I think the only way that would happen is if you pre-redered the game like Timeshock does it. I can't imagine computers ever being powerfull enough to reder this in real-time, at least not in my lifetime. Pre-rendered though.. you could do that now
There's really no need to have a pinball video game in real-time, its not like the camera moves around unless you doing VR or something. For the most part the camera is stationary.
Quoted from Crash:Do you think someone will take the PC version of Pro Pinball and mod it to the point where it can potentially become the next (although illegal) Visual Pinball? With a capable playfield editor, just insert your own playfield images and objects and make it work with PinMAME. They have already nailed the physics and universal parts/lighting/animations.
I don't know but it would be awesome and i'd love to be a part of it.
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