My First Virtual Pinball Machine - The Beginning
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- čas přidán 7. 07. 2024
- Originally Aired on May 30, 2017
This is a quick video showing the beginning of my desktop model virtual pinball machine. I may...some day....build a full size cabinet one but this fit my needs....and my budget. Going in to the project I was lucky enough to have all of the electronics required. In the video I mentioned that I gave up on Visual Pinball. Well.....I did not. I finally figured out my issue and I now have Visual Pinball working great. I'll post a follow up video on that.
Enjoy! - Hry
Congrats on getting all that stuff working. I'm still waiting on the Pinball FX3 folks to get back with me on the cabinet mode code. LOL. Yeh, I gave up on Pinball Arcade, as well, ever since they took away cabinet support, and all those other tables. Sheesh. Thanks for the video.
What do you suggest for a complete noob to get into this? I want to build a cabinet with a set up like this video
Watch all of TerryRed's CZcams videos. Start small with just a desktop setup and work your way up to a cab. Don't try to make a cab with all of the bells and whistles at first. You will run in to issues so be patient...join all of the boards....ask lots of questions.
Hi! Great configuration. I am dreaming about building some similar extremely simple set for playing virtual pinballl. I would use a TV to display the playfield and just the laptop computer to display the back glass and the DMD. Could you tell me about the software you are using? I see many good titles there like Tales from the crypt or Robocop on that list. I've been researching about the many options but I am confused, tried future pinball and visual pinball 10 but I am having problems making them work properly. Any recommendations or advice? Thanks a lot.
Hi. I pretty much use Virtual Pinball X (10). The front end, the graphical interface used to launch the tables, is PinballX. I suggest becoming a member of the vpforums (vpforums.org). They are a virtual pinball community and their forums have a wealth of knowledge. If you have any questions they are very friendly to noobs. Unlike reddit. I can tell you that what your are trying to do is doable. It's been a while since I configured a two display system but I did setup something similar to this for a buddy of mine.
Hi. I'm thinking of building a virtual pinball setup as well. Can you tell me if there is any button lag using a TV for the monitor? Thanks.
Not that I've noticed. The lag can be adjusted in the script but you probably won't need to. The only issue you may have is if your PC is not good enough. You need a good CPU and video card.
I'm curious how this is coming along.
I completed this machine a while back and I've since torn it apart. I play virtual pinball mostly on my gaming PC and I use Launchbox to launch the tables. Most of my tables setup are Visual Pinball X or FX3.
nice setup, can you tell yours' tv and laptop size? thank you
I don't have this configuration anymore but the playfield TV was 32" and the backglass display was a 20". I did not use the display on the laptop. The laptop was used as the PC. The laptop was connected to a Dell docking station.
Can you tell me the type of computer you are using...graphic card..etc..
I use an i5 with a GTX1080. GPU can be smaller. Visual pinball needs mostly a good CPU+ram and a decent GPU. Unlike most other games these days that require a large GPU.