Shockman's Bowling Machine

[Shockman]

The camera view in FP that follows the ball would be sweet though.

 

[zerhino]

The camera view in FP that follows the ball would be sweet though.

If this was in fp I would be convinced that I was at a bowling alley. The view would be amazing! :D

 

[rpbizzle47]

The camera view in FP that follows the ball would be sweet though.

Thanks for the landline yesterday Shock! Really enjoyed talking with you a while man. Now get your butt back to working on that Bowler :)


(ducking for cover!)

 

[Shockman]

It was so nice to talk to you in person also. I am going to see the Dr. Monday and I think dressings, stiches, and staples will be removed at that time. I'll get back to working on the bowler soon.

 

[zerhino]

It was so nice to talk to you in person also. I am going to see the Dr. Monday and I think dressings, stiches, and staples will be removed at that time. I'll get back to working on the bowler soon.

Yes! Hope you make are able to get those stitches off!

 

[rpbizzle47]

It was so nice to talk to you in person also. I am going to see the Dr. Monday and I think dressings, stiches, and staples will be removed at that time. I'll get back to working on the bowler soon.

No rush Shock... You get yourself back up to par before anything else. You gotta' take a break. You don't need to stress yourself out man.

 

[rpbizzle47]

Gotta get home now... See ya guy's later. Be sure to check out my tables. :)

 

[rpbizzle47]

I think my next project is going to be a table with a Rocky Horror theme. I been gettin' a few mid files and images off the internet, so I'll see what I can do with this stuff.

 

[Shockman]

let me let you guys know why I have been away. I felt like working on the bowler yesterday after the Dr. told me I could not go back to work until at least two more weeks. However I get on the computer and have the SpyWareStrike virus. I spent most of the last two days fighting that. I would say I have it licked, but with no realy wood handy to knock let's just say my fingers are crossed. This one is a bitch, a leftover from SpyAxe or SpywareAxe, whatever it was called, I did not get that one but most everyone that did got the SpyWareStrike one as well when ridding themselve of the axe one.
As far as I know no antivirus program, spybot or addaware type has a fix yet, and it just kicks hijackthis's ass. I read many are working one it and expect to have files soon. The manual way involved a lot of easy to see stuff and a lot of guesswork. I kept my install of XP intact, less just having to re-regester, it thinking it was the first time, and this twice.

Anyway I would have much rather spent that time working on the bowler.

What could be the kick of writing code like that? This thing looked just like the security warning taskbar thingie that showed up with XP SP2, though the wording was strange. It would act like you needed protection and open a web page where you could download a fix (a anti spyware program (spywarestrike)) for $49.00. Of course I did not, but have read that those that did got a program that did not fix it and it opened up more holes and further infested their systems. I read the isp's, government, and certain regular people are trying to track down this person or persons.

I hope I can give you some hope of a playable bowler withib 2 days.

Thanks all for your interest in my health, as well as my work.

I can cough ok now, but sneezing is so fainfull.

Phil 'Shockman' Shockley

 

[rpbizzle47]

I hope I can give you some hope of a playable bowler withib 2 days.

Thanks all for your interest in my health, as well as my work.

I can cough ok now, but sneezing is so fainfull.

Phil 'Shockman' Shockley

Glad you were able to get your system back up and I'm also glad to see your feeling better. I been working on a new pinball machine with a Rocky Horror theme. This is how it's coming along. Don't hold me to this as I been making changes to this table everytime I turn around.

 

[tiltjlp]

Ron, it's no big deal, but why not start a new WIP thread for your new table. It's not considered cool to post a wip SS in someone elses thread.

John

 

[rpbizzle47]

Ron, it's no big deal, but why not start a new WIP thread for your new table. It's not considered cool to post a wip SS in someone elses thread.

John

Sorry about that!!! I already have a thread of "My Tables" started. I wasn't thinking to clearly yesterday I suppose. Sorry about that Shock!!!

 

[Shockman]

Don't worry about this Ron. I enjoy hearing from you as well as the others in any thread. Besides you started this thread yourself, to plug my bowler, who's to say this is not a 'plug' thread? Besides, I a big fan of the 'off topic' myself and the talking much more than the subject.

 

[rpbizzle47]

Don't worry about this Ron. I enjoy hearing from you as well as the others in any thread. Besides you started this thread yourself, to plug my bowler, who's to say this is not a 'plug' thread? Besides, I a big fan of the 'off topic' myself and the talking much more than the subject.

LOL :)....I hope your feeling better Shock!!!

 

[tiltjlp]

I forgot you had started this thread Ron. I figure if you start a thread you can post whatever you want in it.

 

[rpbizzle47]

I forgot you had started this thread Ron. I figure if you start a thread you can post whatever you want in it.

ROFL :)

 

[Shockman]

I'll jump off topic, then back on if I remember.

Have you guys seen this Animusic? I have a DVD and it is pretty cool. If you have never heard of animusic then leave here and go to http://www.animusic.com and watch a demo. My understanding is this is a modeler slash renderer with sound built in. These guys could build a killer 3d pinball machine. I don't know if it's on a demo on their site but they create these balls that are shot out of a tube and the balls hit the drums and strings and stuff and make a perfect song.

Feeling much better now. I don't remember if I told you this but in the hospital, I thought for a couple of days that they were not going to pull me through.

I'm back to work on the bowler. I have a arrow that moves from gutter to gutter which is a flipper, which is a gage, which shows the angle the ball will roll down the ally. I don't know about it though. VP flippers, I hate them, not only do they not work well, they don't look good at the same time, because I could not get more than 8 frames of animation out of that pot licker at any reasonable speed.. Working on triggers and scoring too. I have a new sound set for the pins, made from the set tiltjlp posted. I broke it up into 3 or 4 single pinhit sounds.

What is the maximum number of frames that a reel can have? And they can be made to be totally invisable using one frame, right?

Is there any Bosconian fans out there? I want to make a pinball of that. I think I would like to give them a story and life. Sinistar too.

see ya

 

[yogiholzer]

Aaah, bosconian. And sinistar. No fan, but like them as other classic arcade titles.

 

[Shockman]

I think you guys are going to like the next version. The first roll shots are dialed in. If you hit the pocket from the same side you get the strike, but from the wrong side the miss, which is usually a easy spare. Maybe this would be best (easy) with just one trigger, but I'm using one for each. Possible shots are a 7/10 (makable 1 in 100) with a perfect shot, a 4-7/10 and a 7/6-10 splits (makable 100% with a perfect shot) , The miss which is usually a row of three plus 50/50 on the pins behind (almost never a split. makable as a spare with a couple or few different rolls), The Center Strike Right and the Center Strike Left which is the pocket on either side of the head pin (makable from any angle) , The mix which will leave usually one, usually the 7 or 10 depending on which pocket was hit but missed (Makable of course), The Right and Left Strikes which can only be hit by the left spot for the left one and the right spot for the right one (these and the two center pockets will be strikes 100% of the time when hit) if these triggers are hit from the wrong side, like the left trigger from a shot from the right, meaning the ball is not rolling into the pins there but toward the 4-7-8 area then a miss is counted which is like a washout that hits the head pin. These for just hitting the head pin, then the washouts that just miss the head pin and and the rest whick are form of washout. these could just take half the pins or the last 3, 2 or 1, if higher will washout some on the other side more often.

Scoring was way wack. Sorted a bunch of it. The way I'm counting frames makes it hard. the two last boxes (of the three in frame 10) the 2nd could be frame 10, shot 2 or Frame 11 shot one. and the last box could be frame 12 shot one or frame 11 shot 2. Follow me?

Sorted is the StrikeRun variable. (spares was keeping it running) and some of that 11th and 12th frame stuff above.
Those were bugs. Another problem was an error on my part, and still needs fixed. I have it where a strike would count the next two frames instead of the next two rolls IF a strike is the next roll, it would count it plus the next frame, not the next ball. Still with me?

I think I'm going to make it where you don't have to aim, but try to roll when a gage which will be sweeping back and forth is at the angle you want to roll. This will add a random element you would not get by setting the aim just so yourself.

Once (or twice) out of thousands of rolls and with an extreem angle the ball would enter the gutter and wobble and stop and roll back in the gutter. Pressing roll again will roll it back to the pins, but in the gutter so you wont get any pins.

On than same note, pressing roll while the ball is rolling will effect the ball, I need to fix that too.

 

[tiltjlp]

Sounds like you've really been busy troubleshooting. I like the idea of not letting the bowler aim the ball. It would be too easy to find the pockets and get really high scores all the time. The might be good for the ego but would probably get old quick. I'm sure all your effort will result in an awesome game.

 

[rpbizzle47]

Feeling much better now. I don't remember if I told you this but in the hospital, I thought for a couple of days that they were not going to pull me through.

Oh my...I'm just glad your doing better Shock. It sounds like you've gotten into this bowler pretty heavy. I never dreamed that there was some much to do to make it. Should I have kept my mouth shut?! :)

I've ran out of ideas for making tables right now and besides that, my old lady (wife) is starting to give me shit because of the amount oftime I've been spending on the computer. I knew that was bound to happen sooner or later. :)

 

[Shockman]

I thought there would not be much to it either Ron, but I should have known. I put all I can into whatever I do so thanks for calling that alot.

It was half the drugs and the pain and the isolation, but the other half was the staff, the registered nurses anyway, the aids were great. The reason I said that was because there was a peroid of time that I just could not pee. I thought my organs were failing, and that one surly was. I would tell the RN that it was not working, and she would say 'What do you mean it's not working' I would say 'I don't know, it's just not working' She would point to the plastic pot and say 'It looks like it's working' I would say that took 1 1/2 hours and there was no pressure" she said 'then it's working.
Well, after my attitude changed to more anger than wonder, and at the end of the RN's 10 hour or so shift (my complaints started at the start of the shift) She brought in a ultra sound machine and learned that my bladder was at 102% capacity and finally drained it. The next day was fine and I felt better and could go, but the day after that was like the day 2 days before and I told the RN on duty that day that 'it was not working' he said 'what do you mean it's not working' and pointed to the piss pot that had a bit in it.
Understand that my lung and the wall of my chest were scrubbed to make them raw so they would heal fused together. This causes a numbness from my neck to my waist on the left side along with the intense pain, so with that going on I thought for a time that my heart must be the only organ working well in my body.

Gotta run, don't worry about me, I'm fine.

Thanks for your support.

 

[tiltjlp]

Sounds like you were in the Hospital from hell. Take care of yourself.

 

[rpbizzle47]

Sounds like you were in the Hospital from hell. Take care of yourself.

I agree with you John. Remind me to never get ill! I sure as heck don't wish to go through what Shock did.

I'm truely glad o the ole' boy pulled through it and I'm shocked that he's even thinking of working on the bowler at this time.

 

[Shockman]

I'm going to post another wip. Again not really playable (without cussing) but just shows where we are at now and gives you all a chance to give input to make it different somehow.

Plays a game and resets with a coin and start (the last one did that didn't it?) This one tests a aiming mech that is just too low res I think but gives an idea. Scoring is better but still needs work. This is just to see if there is ideas for smoother higher resolution aiming.

Your scores are going to drop with this version, if you test it. You can not steer the ball in this version at any time other than placing it. you can't screw up a roll by pressing the roll key again. The words that show on the lane where game over shows is for testing only and will not be in the final version.

600 kb

Thanks, Phil