My latest VP Pinball game...

[scapino]

Stienie reminded me that I havn't posted recently about my work with trueSpace in creating Visual Pinball tables.

I just finished up a re-work of my Flash Gordon table.

I completly model the table in TS (on the model side), and render a set of images with the lightworks renderer, that I use to cut out emreel images (like sprites) that I use to animate the lights and other things on the Visual Pinbal table, which is playable.

Here is a screen shot of the finished table....



And heres a wireframe shot...




Kurt

[clintonman]

That's neat. I had to look up "Visual Pinball table" to find out what it was. How do you get your stuff out of truespace and into the game?

[scapino]

I render master images in TS, combine them in Photoshop, and create emreel images, which are like sprites in Visual Pinball. I put these emreel images on the backglass in Visual pinball, so they cover the actual Physical table. The only VP things that show trough are the ball and the flippers. I use code in the Visual Pinball table to animate the emreel images (flipping through frames).

All the emreel images I make from the original TS renders are jpgs, imported into VP as images, and assigned to emreel objects.

Kurt

[Steinie]

Great to have you back! Your Flash Gordon is awesome!!!
Have you ever recreated the Adams Family Pinball Machine?

[scapino]

Not yet. Its on my to-do list though.

Also, sorry for the typo on your name!

Kurt

[DesignDevil]

I can't see the images

ok, step back, now it works .... weird

WOW ... that looks great, very colorful. Do you also painted the textures/images by your self?

[scapino]

I collect all the images I can, and clean up those that are good eunough to be used, and re-draw those that aren't.

Kurt

[nigec]

That's awesome, nice work!
I just found the up to date VP site so I might have a look at the program at some point, my middle daughter loves PP games it would be cool to base one around her lol

[Prodigy]

A M A Z I N G!!!!

Super banana for your work!

one of the best good looking vptables ever!

*yes, i had probs with the images, but f5 solve it later ..

[scapino]

Thanks, Prodigy

Kurt