Carny_Priest

I'm going to need more info:

Use groups only if you want to collect and display items/games that appear in different xml databases.

snes - only.xml goes in \\pinballx\database\snes

You have snes.xml. You want these to show up under a separate menu item Make a copy of your snes.xml. Rename "snes - Copy.xml" to "snes Only.xml" or whatever you want. The main menu will now have an item for "snes Only". Select it and you will only see the items in your snes database displayed on the sub-wheel. Suppose you want the subwheel for your snes games but you don't want these games displayed on the main wheel: After making your copy of the snes database, go to the original file and replace all of the contents of snes.xml with <menu> </menu> Leave "snes Only.xml" as it is. Now, the snes games will be displayed under the subwheel and not on the main wheel

LaunchFX2.ahk

Try uninstalling Visual Pinball and then re-installing?

There is not built in support for it. Can it be done with a custom script and external media player like VLC? Maybe. I never tried it. Startup video just gets in the way of playing pinball! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I use a separate launch script rather than integrated support. In the script I set up a hotkey to force kill the process. Generally speaking, I've quit fighting with integrated support and use custom scripts for everything. I only run Future Pinball with built-in support. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

This is old, but for setting up custom folders the instructions still work:

Nice job! I'll test at some point but it looks like I can't get an update for FCM right now.

I don't run a startup video either, but there is still a start up image. Have you tried deleting the PinballX.png file from the Media/Startup Images folder?

I've got what I need as far as media. My post directed @leggless2001 has a script for capturing Pinball FX2 DMD videos using ffmpeg. The output is basically a lossless dump into an mkv container. To get a proper loop, the mkv file must be edited and then transcoded into an mp4 or flv file. It will at least get you what you need.

You can always have your script write the table name into the last played table field in pinballx.ini

I forgot. There is integrated support in PinballX. I'd say that it would be preferable at this point to launch from an "Other Systems" slot and selecting Custom from the System Type pulldown. That should launch directly into the table. I write my own custom launch scripts for nearly every system especially where Steam is involved.

Well, just copying my set up is another complication. I run the playfield using downsampling. Maybe look at this and use 1920x1080 instead of 3325x1871. What's supposed to happen is that the script reads the playfield and backglass parameters from the registry and overwrites the OBS Studio conflg files. Administrator provides access to read and write to the config files. Although when setting up for the first time it is a good idea to run OBS Studio as portable from the command line and check through the settings. Be sure that it is set to Display Capture and not Game Capture. If all of that has been done and OBS Studio is still just capturing a blank screen then maybe the drivers for your video card require an update. I can only test the script on my cab, and it works pretty well. Win 10, NVidia GTX 660, latest drivers

There is no script in PinballX. If you are launching PBFX directly then you are calling on PBFX's built-in command line parameters for launching the table directly and by-passing the main menu. This only supports single-player currently. You can try the old NukeLauncher solution but you will have to configure and feed it the correct grid positions for each table. PBFX has changed how it handles the floating DMD as well. You'd either have to hack the program (not hard to do) or code a kill script to make sure the program closes completely. http://www.nukelauncher.com/

No. Works the same way as before. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

That's weird. I'll take a look at a couple of things later this evening. If nothing else, I can tweak the script for you to capture in windowed mode, the result can be scaled to 1920z1080 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I assume that you are running the exe file. Then, like every other program related to a virtual pinball installation it should be set to run as administrator. In this case, the program needs write access to the obs studio config files Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

What version of windows are you running? Are you running the compiled executable? If so, are you running as admin? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It's not very Game Manager friendly. I think most users here just pick up media through that interface rather than through media packs these days. I'd rather see contributions of original work, myself.

1. I don't know. For me and others, OBS Studio captures OpenGL which is what the FP Player uses for rendering. I don't think by itself that it will make any difference but I disable Arcade Mode in the FP Video/Rendering Options dialog and use BAM Arcade mode. Also, I disable Use Texture Compression and disable Processor Affinity. Again, that probably won't help. I'd double check that your playfield profile is set to capture the correct screen and that it also set to the correct resolution, presumably 1920x1080. This is a good step-by-step tutorial: 2. I think it is just your media player adding the file name. If you are using LAV Filters (linked in the pinballx.com home page) then that will not show up in PinballX.

Tree: obs-studio\config\obs-studio\basic etc. If you have to do it, you may need to set your capture configuration for playfield manually open up a command line change directory to the folder containing your obs-studio executable run the command: obs64 --portable --collection playfield --profile playfield --screen playfield Confirm that the preview screen is actually displaying your playfield display. If not, click the icon for Display Capture and change the screen to the one that you use for your playfield.

Install ultraDMD outside of the Program Files folder. All dll with anything in you pinball installation needs to be unblocked. All executables need to be set to run as admin. What message do you get that indicates path issue? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk