El Dorado VP8 recon

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Been busy on this last few days ...



All new slings, plastics etc., with Eala's faceted guide posts, screwheads etc.,
from Itchy's parts table & domed hex nuts. Images touched up or replaced, bumpers corrected, ramp based lane dividers
Apron now has readable cards, & .........
No changes needed for lights, script & sound
 
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that's too clean a playing surface!
I remember these older pins to have cigarette burns
and beer spills all over their play fields
along with cracked glass!
Now if only you could make them look real like I remember them to be

Great looking pin, Patch! so how long until we get to play it?
 
how long until we get to play it?

Those plastics images are decals, gotta' get them onto a blueprint yet
... all else, I think is done :headscratch:
Maybe do it for VP9 with round rubbers, animated plunger etc...
 
I tried doing transparent edges on plastics, but with wall top set to non visible
made the decals also non visible ...
So I pasted same into a VP9 new table & it worked, then pasted same in new VP8 table, which also worked :headscratch:
I'd like it to work also in ElDorado, as it's all I think? needs doing for upload
 

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Altho' I've got this way better than the '05 version
I'm not going to upload it unless someone wants to test run it

Seems even with larger, non visible walls around the faceted posts
the ball still acts as tho' it's hit the ramps & performs aerial stunts lol

Thinking I may as well start fresh in VP9 with round rubbers, animated plunger etc ...
as, have got this pf which has been Gimped square, etc
- will only be 1024 size, as any larger won't show in VP here

Still working on Minstrel man & others too
 

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To add on previous post, turns out I simply cannot use Bendigo's templates for anything in VP9 - added decals will not show at all, on our setup
Yet, I can run any & all of his tables & other VP8 tables in VP9, by allowing room for larger ball etc.,
I really appreciate his demos/templates & would most likely get stuff uploaded quicker, if I could use his templates
One way around it, would be to strip his recreations down to a template & work from there
I wouldn't dare do that without his permission & hesitant to contact him, should he be ill
or something
 
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have you figured out the reason for the decals not showing up in vp9?
it shouldn't matter if they're only decals
post the table or pm me with it and I'll see what I can do about that
 
oh and for the transparent edge around plastics try ramps
that is what I use
 
It's not all a case of decals not showing - it also shuffles one's that do, around the table

I'm thinking there's no point trying to get it looking right in VP9
... it's just a VP8 table :) I'll just have to fix all the posts & can upload

& I've got a better PF image to use in a new VP9 project :)
... if you want to see it as is now, Faralos
I'll PM it ya', cheers
 
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I've uninstalled VP8 & 914, now only have 915
Pleased to say the decal bug is now OK & so is the ball's reaction
hitting the guide posts
Also I can now use Bendigo's templates without the decal bug :)
& images larger than 1024 can now be seen

Apart from resized flipper rubbers, all else is unchanged for VP8
Still have the transparent flipper bug & a couple of lights appear cracked
Both bugs can be seen in SS
 

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now it's looking much better!
so when can we play it?
 
My parts table!!! (JK) For a transparent edge on plastics this is what I do:
Copy plastic.
Scale copy of plastic by 1.03. (Approx).
Uncheck "top visible.
Side visible is checked, with a grey edge.
 
Not much chance at all ...
Can't upload here

When I click the Downloads link, I arrive at the PN front page.
I then click the Downloads link near the top-right corner of the front page and I then arrive at the Downloads page.

On that page I click the Add Download link and I then get this Upload page:

http://www.pinballnirvana.com/admin.php?module=UpDownload&op=main

Is this UpDownloads page working for you, Patch?

Else we'll have to think of something else.
 
No Sleepy, what happens, is I can get to the downloads page & > uploads
but only as unlogged user
Any attempt to log in from either page, sends me back to front page
or forums main page & ... so it goes, haha
 
@patch, is that bcs you only made an ID for the forums area but not for rest of site?
 
Can't be the case anyway, as I've been a member since early days
& uploaded back then. Only change since, is password.
Maybe because I haven't bothered changing given password
to chosen password ?
I'll give that a shot anyway
cheers all
 
Hmm, that didn't work & I don't see any other option in profile
other than allow 'Vcard' thingy ?
 
Can't be the case anyway, as I've been a member since early days
& uploaded back then. Only change since, is password.
IIRC this site used to be one-stop shopping.

then a couple years later as jon developed the portal, etc, it became necessary to register two accts, one for forums and one for site, proper.
 
No Sleepy, unlogged user there
I've managed to get logged on there, by signing in again
but still show as unlogged user on download (via 3 different links) & upload page(s)
Another weird thing is I don't show on front page current users list
But have noticed I do show there long after logging out
 
IIRC this site used to be one-stop shopping.

then a couple years later as jon developed the portal, etc, it became necessary to register two accts, one for forums and one for site, proper.

Oh, thanks Nic. Don't know that I could really be bothered anymore.
 
Well shoot. I don't know.

Maybe you have a bad PN cookie hanging from the old days and need to logout on both the PN forums and the PN front page, leave PN, then delete the cookies, then close and reopen the browser and then login on both the PN front page and the forums page?
 
Very Strange...

I just found out that when I logout of the Forums page, I get an "All cookies cleared" message. So I went to the PN front page where I was I.D.d as an unlogged user. So then I logged in on the PN front page and checked the "Remember Me" box and then got the "Welcome sleepy, click here if the page does not redirect you" message and the page then reopened on the PN front page as an Unlogged User!

So I again entered my Username and I manually typed my password on the PN front page and checked the "Remember me" box, then got the "Welcome sleepy" page, and this time was returned to the PN front page as logged in. This also logged me in on the Forums page.

So maybe we need to login on the PN front page twice with "Remember me" checked before we are logged in?
 
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