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I think I like them more as just a single cool looping video. At least for the very complex ones like Medieval Madness and Champion Pub where there's a ton of things going on in it. I could see Back to the Future as a b2s where an event triggers the Delorian's door to raise and close, and the fire behind the tires ignite from a flameless street.

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Where can I find some good basic info on how to program for b2s? I'm sure here somewhere, I'll try to read up on it and see if that sparks anything inside me or under me. I don't think you get into trouble with these. I'm having hard time seeing that this is anything else than fan related and if you are not charging money for you work. I think the issue here would be that I would be altering a piece of copyrighted work and then redistributing it without permission.

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Now since I am not profiting from it, no financial harm would be done to the license holder. I'm sure an intellectual properties attorney would have an easy case and figure out some ridiculous amount of damages for their client by me doing so. I do think I would be safe doing what I'm currently doing by sharing my progress of work that I'm doing for MY machine.

That would be simply a fan altering their own copy for their own private use. It's the uploading of the piece, specifically for others to freely download, is where it could get tricky.

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I would think that at the moment I would be ok since I am sharing my personal work 'to view' via YouTube which doesn't allow for the download of the video, just sharing of the URL to view. Also, this is different than those sharing files from across the web of the original artwork(s) or animated versions of it that simply have lights flashing replicating the original artwork in use on a physical pinball machine. By doing that, you're just simulating what the original artwork looks like in its intended physical use. Using the static picture for a backglass isn't a big deal for their tables they provide a link to where pictures are hosted to use, and you can always provide different pictures to fit your particular build, and they don't require any functionality beyond what's basically a static translite anyway.I'm not doing that at all, hence the disassemble aspect.

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It's much harder to set it up to use something other than the 'primary' monitor for the playfield, and there's other issues like 'these tables are provided as full screen landscape, we recommend you just deal with that as it is than trying to make it portrait because that's the way it's always been done and it's at best much more work for yourself'. It's been in place since FX2 that you needed to send a message and attach a photo of your setup to get cabinet mode unlocked.Īnd honestly, other virtual pinball like Visual Pinball actually has very similar issues with multiple monitor support.

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I think it relates specifically one of the licenses attached to their original tables based on other intellectual property, with the need to enforce the 'home use only' aspect of the software as part of it, basically that they 'need proof that the cabinet mode is intended only for a home environment', where whether or not it's realistic that operators would actually plunk a virtual cabinet into a location, the licensor doesn't want that to be part of it, or wants much more money for it to be done without the gatekeeping (commercial license fee versus the home use only license fee), possibly an order or two of magnitude difference in the cost. Thank you for reading and for a great game. Why does FX3 seems so lacking in the multi monitors department ? Is there something planned for this part of the game ? This way we would even have animated backglasses. I would expect a simple option available to multi-monitors users like :Īdd gfx settings for each display and that is it ! From there the game should do the rest: One camera pointing at the playfield on Display 1 and one camera pointing at the backglass on Display 2. In the end you get a static picture backglass with a dot matrix display somewhat in the correct place.Īll this is incomprehensible when compared to the polishing level of the rest of the game. It requires the input of coordinates and sizes in pixels It requires the user to provide the backglass pictures

If you want the backglass on another monitor then you have to enable the cabinet mode and: It is impossible to play full screen on a secondary portrait monitor (can also be worked around check discussion below). There is no option to select the startup monitor (can be worked around). Your game is very polished except when it comes to multi-monitors support: None of these threads received an 'official' answer. Over the last two years I started two threads regarding multiple monitors issues:Īdd an option to select the startup monitorĪLT+ENTER doesn't work anymore on my second monitor

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