BlahCade 88: Arcooda Been a Pinball Wizard

[Kolchak357]

Make history and have a beer at the same time. Love it!

 

[relaxation]

For anyone curious about backglass stuff...

4096x4096 or 2048x2048 in resolution

by looking at Big Shot you can see they made room for UI to sit there and DMD/Alpha numerics might be made to show speakers grills.. not all tables were updated this way. MB doesn't have the grills yet but looks like they may be added in the future or perhaps still testing things.

TZ and MB got another new backglass that can be seen here versus old ones

 

[relaxation]

Old vs New BoP

seems a little washed out but you can now make out the text, especially the Millions on her leg.

 

[relaxation]

cyclone and comet as the greatest pinball games? ha.. that looks like a High Speed stop light to me

 

[shutyertrap]

Thanks for the before and afters. What you can really see is they removed the baked in lighting effect, allowing the real colors to be present. That way DX11 lighting can be added, giving a truer on/off state to the art. This is the curse put upon all the art for at least the first 3 seasons, and while I'm glad the backglass is getting fixed, the playfields are what really need this attention.

 

[relaxation]

Well it sucks to say but I hope they re-evaluate the load their DX11 lighting values are on older tables, I get slow downs where there didn't use to be and I bet it's all the backglasses fault.

1981 vs 1979, look how modest paragon is compared to black hole while both are set to 50/50 lighting

 

[relaxation]

Just FYI it isn't just Black Hole thats heavy-heanded on the backglass let's take a look at Indy 500

pre-dx11 lighting process
dx11 lightmap(?)
dx11 lighting applied
real indy500 in a dark room
real indy500 in a well lit room

Now I know why DX9 and DX11 have different shades of orange for their DMDs, what makes it look brighter and more fuzzy is the lightmap.. I'd rather the DMD remain un-enhanced.

 

[jaredmorgs]

Very interesting indeed. Thanks for sharing, [MENTION=5759]relaxation[/MENTION]

 

[relaxation]

Well it sucks to say but I hope they re-evaluate the load their DX11 lighting values are on older tables, I get slow downs where there didn't use to be and I bet it's all the backglasses fault.

I'd like to offer a correction, while I haven't compared old to new yet.. it's actually my hardware that's in an 'optimal' [low-power] state versus a 'performance' state. A lot of tables don't stress the low-power state enough to cause the slow downs like Black Hole does.

Users can goto their graphics card settings and set it to a performance setting. for the pinball arcade

I can't screen record the issue since the recording software sets it into a performance state, clearing the issue.

 

[Pinballwiz45b]

Is that backglass from Black Hole the exported version? If so, this is totally messed up. Hopefully addressed when this gets ROM emulated.

Original:

Exported: