Pinball FX Cabinet Mode updates - Real DMD support, Command Line start

[adamdns]

Hey pinball fans,

The latest patch has introduced new features to enhance your Cabinet Mode experience in Pinball FX: the native support of real DMD thanks in huge part to freezy - a toolbox for digital pinball and dot matrix displays.
Another feature that is now in the game is command line parameters, in which you can now start the selected table in the desired game mode directly through commands.

Have you given these new features a whirl? What are your initial experiences? Tell us about it!

☝️ Thank you for your feedback and for helping us make Pinball FX even better! ☝️

[More Guinness]

What are all of the available command-line parameters?

[✿Sakura Rozu✿]

how do i set up freezy i have it on my vpin ? ty

[LynnInDenver]

Originally posted by ✿Sakura Rozu✿:

how do i set up freezy i have it on my vpin ? ty

If you go into Cabinet Mode in FX, you can tell it under Dot Matrix to use External Device.

[Tiki]

Can someone please post the specific file structure, that freezy needs for pfx? It is the same as for VPinMame with dll in pfx directory and the altcolor folder?

[[Vampire]]

A link to configure:

https://youtu.be/DxjSc30U83I

[GoMArk]

Well, is that the first step to turn FX into that “VPX style” of “sheety” n endless messy configuration? If I need to do this, I will play VPX for free, that’s disgusting ZEN!!!
I don’t care, keep it user friendly UI with just few clicks, we are paying for it (TWICE must say), put your devs to work, ya shouldn’t transfer this responsibility to the end-user, otherwise, we better move to VPX to make our efforts to play the tables “freely” out there. FX must be an USER-FRIENDLY V.pinball platform, it’s not my (our) problem, deal with it! Balls out!!!

[AndyPants2000]

Thanks for all the work on cabinet mode. So glad you are supporting this and actively making improvements.

I'm curious as to why the back glass artwork is still something we need to source and add independently. All of your tables are fully modelled in 3D with backglass art seemingly present already.

How cool would it be to have the animated back glass for tables like Safe Cracker on a second monitor? If you can do it with a DMD, I would have thought you could implement the animated backglass on a second monitor too.

The other setting that would be great in the DMD section of the cabinet mode would be to have one scale setting for graphical stylel DMDs (like the new tables have) and a separate one for the traditional DMD displays. That way we could scale them more effectively.

Thanks for your ongoing development of your product, I'm really enjoying the tables.

[JLou56BZH]

Great update guys, for new features and performance update. Keep going to optimise game and give usefull feature like you made with Freezy DMD.
Now please give us 3D surround sound! Since long years now, all game use 5.1/7.1... It's a standard. Please give us this feature. It's an easy thing to do for any dev.

[jlang]

Thanks for the support for Real DMDs. I have a pindmd3 and was able to get it working with Pinball FX for the actual DMD tables (i.e. Indiana Jones, Star Wars Mandolorian, Wild West Rampage, etc). Even the new full color LCD games like NecroDancer work the the real DMD. They are hard to read, but they work. However, for alphanumeric tables (i.e. Dr Dude) the DMD is completely filled with two rows of what looks like filled in zeros and then Pinball FX crashes with a dialog that says fatal error. Has anyone seen this?

[Zimond]

- Option to disable action camera on all tables.
- 7.1 SSF support for the physical sounds.

Add these 2 things and I am willing to rebuy all the tables again.

[timmy1701]

Nice update, but i habe trouble to config the cabinet mode. I have three displays in my pin. When i activated the cabinet mode i see on display 2 and 3 only a minimize window in the task bar. On the main screen i see the Playfield correctly.

[HorsePin]

Your lighting is bad in this game maybe it's time to get your priorities right.

[GEG]

Will we ever be able to manually adjust the size of the dmd to utilize the entire dmd screen? Try to adjust using menu within pinball FX, i adjust screen size and doesnt adjust size at all. Frustrating for a 3 screen user.

[floatstarpx]

Originally posted by AndyPants2000:

I'm curious as to why the back glass artwork is still something we need to source and add independently. All of your tables are fully modelled in 3D with backglass art seemingly present already.

How cool would it be to have the animated back glass for tables like Safe Cracker on a second monitor? If you can do it with a DMD, I would have thought you could implement the animated backglass on a second monitor too.

This would be so cool.. & really seems like an obvious thing they could do relatively easily - you're right, it's already 'there' in the world... just needs a camera pointing at it rendering to the backglass screen (instead of our static images, that weirdly we have to supply ourselves...)