3D-ARCADE: Pinball

3D-ARCADE at MAMEWORLD

PINBALL

THE HANDLING OF BACKGLASSES AND PLAYFIELDS IN THE FRONTEND

The frontend handles the use of backglasses and playfields on pinball models in more or less the same way then the marquee and screenshot images for mame. It will first look for an image with the name of the vpt file in the second entry of a games gamelist entry and if that is not found search the 5 and 6 entry that correspond to mame's clone of and rom of. If still not found it will search for the dummy files. Emulaxian can use these extra positions for any gamelist. This means we can use them also for visual pinball to have only one image for all revisions for a table. Therefore when you create a vp gamelist with feutilities.exe and vplauncher's dat file it will put the first entry of vplauncher dat file which is the generic table name in the 6 position of a gamelist entry. The frontend will then find backglasses, playfields, flyers, rules etc. with this name for this game!

Creating textures for visual pinball:

-Backglass textures should be edited so that only the inner part, not the wooden case, is visible and be as straight as possible and then resized and saved in 256x256 format. Backglass images are in a lot of cases taken under an angle use the perspective tool of your favorite image editing to get a better frontal look.
-Playfields can be made from screenshots. Start with making a screenshot in as high as possible resolution in Visual Pinball. Then with your favorite editing tool skew the part of the playfield to a perfect rectangle. Cut it out and paste it into a new image. Resize and save this image in 256x512 and 512x512 format.
Send the results to us to make your work available to us all :- ).

PINBALL DAT FILES

Karetag has created dat files for helping rename that pesky pinball artwork to match those "unconventional" VP names. You can get that below. This set was updated on 26-06-2006.

Karetag's dat files (26-06-2006)

BACKGLASS AND PLAYFIELD FILES

Karetag updated (26-06-2006) the Backglass sets. Both sets should have improved file names to match the generic name taken from the VPLauncher.dat file. One set is offered at 256x resolution in JPG format and for folks with fast machines and lots of video ram a 512x set in PNG format. The non-emulated set is only offered in 512x PNG format since these tables have yet to be emulated. Keep in mind these were shipped to us in bulk, so not every image will be perfect...although a little better than his last set.

BACKGLASSES 256x SET

karetag's_256_JPG_backglasses A-M (6-24-06).zip

karetag's_256_JPG_backglasses N-Z (6-24-06).zip

BACKGLASSES 512x SET

karetag's backglasses 0-A (6-24-06).zip

karetag's backglasses B (6-24-06).zip

karetag's backglasses C (6-24-06).zip

karetag's backglasses D-E (6-24-06).zip

karetag's backglasses F (6-24-06).zip

karetag's backglasses G-H (6-24-06).zip

karetag's backglasses I-L (6-24-06).zip

karetag's backglasses M-N (6-24-06).zip