United3dArtists Archive

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

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?

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

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

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

Also, sorry for the typo on your name!

Kurt

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?

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

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

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 ..

Thanks, Prodigy

Kurt