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Table Talk: Williams Pinball
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<blockquote data-quote="Zaphod77" data-source="post: 289193" data-attributes="member: 2101"><p>There are many complex interactions that affect pinball physics. mass, spin, and friction all combine to create the many weird effects.</p><p></p><p>Additionally, we have timer resolution and framerate to worry about.</p><p></p><p>When the latter is not taken into account, we have literally impossible shots for no good reason.</p><p></p><p>To make sure shots can actually be shot at intended times often the physics have to be cheated behind the scenes.</p><p></p><p>The biggest example of this is spider man's upper left flipper on the bottom level, where any reasonably aimed shot will go either one way or the other like magic. TPA often has ramp vacuums on older tables to do the same thing. Creatures main left ramp used to have a vacuum that sucked up a huge range of shots.</p><p></p><p>You would think with so few variables to actually worry about, this would be simple, but if it was, people would have perfect physics by now. But someday....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Zaphod77, post: 289193, member: 2101"] There are many complex interactions that affect pinball physics. mass, spin, and friction all combine to create the many weird effects. Additionally, we have timer resolution and framerate to worry about. When the latter is not taken into account, we have literally impossible shots for no good reason. To make sure shots can actually be shot at intended times often the physics have to be cheated behind the scenes. The biggest example of this is spider man's upper left flipper on the bottom level, where any reasonably aimed shot will go either one way or the other like magic. TPA often has ramp vacuums on older tables to do the same thing. Creatures main left ramp used to have a vacuum that sucked up a huge range of shots. You would think with so few variables to actually worry about, this would be simple, but if it was, people would have perfect physics by now. But someday.... [/QUOTE]
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