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Small update ... I made still image backglasses with grill for the tables missing Namsan animated backglasses MARVEL_Ant-Man.png Portal.png STARWARS_Rebels.png added 1080x1920 Table Image for MARVEL_Ant-Man Draco had already made MARVEL_Ant-Man wheel image which is already there Also added MARVEL_Ant-Man to Pinball FX2.xml stuff uploaded here for any interested

For those who don't have access to the FTP and are having trouble downloading from YouTube I have uploaded the backglasses with grill videos here with the additional resources.

Ok re rendered backglasses with grill for 2 screen setups have been uploaded to FTP under the path -> /-PinballX-/Media/PinballFX2/Backglass Videos/Backglass Videos 2 Screens I have also uploaded a file called "Grill.png" into the same folder which is the grill template I used. Can I get FTP access to download some of the original backglasses on the FTP to compare video quality with the YouTube source files I used?

No problem, I will upload my re rendered backglasses with grill for 2 screen setups to FTP. I just had a look at FTP and the 3 screen original backglasses are there and I noticed the file size for many of them is between 30 to 40MB. The source files I used were 1080p mp4 downloaded from YouTube that were 10 to 15MB in size. I set my renders to around 20MB to not loose any quality. Have a look and compare the quality of my 2 screen backglass renders to the original on FTP and if there is significant difference it might be worth re rendering with the larger source files?

OK a complication regarding the video files on YouTube ... It turns out YouTube are now serving some of their streams including 1080p in a new format called DASH or Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP which is an adaptive bit rate streaming technology over a new HTML 5 player involving a separate video and audio stream that I was not aware of. Chrome supports the new changes hence you can see all the streams in the browser but Firefox does not as yet so you only see the 360p stream. You can install an extension in Firefox called "YouTube Flash Video Player" which lets you switch to using a YouTube flash player rather than the newer HTML 5 that is not yet fully supported and then you can see all the streams as you use to in Firefox and that you can see in Chrome. Regarding capture or download the problem is that we generally use 3rd party browser extensions / plugins or apps to grab video/audio from YouTube and unfortunately from what I can tell from looking around online the authors of these have not yet updated their software to deal with the new DASH streaming format. Every extension / plugin or app I have tested tonight, and I have tested over a dozen do not support DASH capture yet. I guess it is just a matter of time but the closest I came across is a Firefox extension called "Complete YouTube Saver" that looks to incorporate DASH capture support but I was unable to grab the 1080p versions of my uploaded videos even though I can view the 1080p stream. I would suggest YouTube downloaders will be updated soon and it will be back to business as usual

Are you using my script? I put in that instance check in for that same reason, the script checks for an existing instance of "Borderless_DMD.exe" and does nor run it again if it already exists. Is the check not working for you? I noticed looking at your script you have named your AHK script "Borderless_DMD32.exe"? If that is the case then you need to change the instance check to "Borderless_DMD32.exe" for it to work?

I am not running using steam but launching the game exe directly in which case my bat file has been working fine. I haven't had the need to test the launch through steam, sorry. For those interested, I have re rendered Namsan's Pinball FX2 animated backglasses with grill and uploaded them to youtube for download. Please note they have been uploaded at 1080p, if you are only seeing 360p in Firefox this is due to a Firefox bug (as I have just discovered myself) switch to Chrome and you will see up to 1080p Set Pinball FX2 DMD to width = 762 height = 157 for aspect ratio without any distortion. Additional PFX2 resources like 1080x1920 Table Images and other files here for anyone interested.

Ok I have resolved the problem as Draco suggested I left the AHK scripting and went back to working on a batch file to launch both xpadder and the borderlessDMD AHK script. Its weird, to get it working correctly I had to put an instance check in for the borderlessDMD script but not for xpadder. Anyway, it is all working smoothly now For anyone else having the same problem here is the batch script code I am using. I am not a programmer just pieced it together with google's help so probably not very elegant coding but it does the job Create a txt file, paste this code/txt into it, and change the file extension to .bat and you have your batch file @echo offcd "C:\Program Files (x86)\xpadder"start Xpadder.exe"tasklist | find "Borderless_DMD.exe"if errorlevel 1 goto :Borderless_DMD:Endexit:Borderless_DMDcd "C:\Program Files\AutoHotkey" start Borderless_DMD.exegoto :End

I have been trying exactly that ... i started with a batch file and then realized there is no point when the Borderless_DMD already requires a AutoHotKey script. So I added Xpadder launch to the Borderless_DMD script which works fine for the launch of the first PFX2 table but when you go to exit and load another PFX2 table you run into problems. The script needs to be able to deal with an open/existing session of the script and Xpadder. I haven't done AutoHotKey scripting before and getting the script to work correctly for exiting and loading multiple PFX2 tables is proving to be a headache. If anyone has a working script for this function or can help in putting it together I would be very grateful

Ok I have done some more trouble shooting and have narrowed down the problem a bit more ... I should also add (if you didn't notice from my PFX2 preferences posted above) that I use Xpadder to map button inputs on my cabinet. I have managed to get the Borderless_DMD script to work through direct table launching in pinballX but I need to have the script setup in the "Launch Before" section of the "Pinball FX2" PinballX settings for it to work, which is where I normally have Xpadder setup! So I currently can have Borderless DMD but no button controls or button controls with very ugly framed DMD! How can I setup both Borderless_DMD script and Xpadder to launch in the Pinball FX2 "Launch Before" preferences ??? Any suggestions / help would be greatly appreciated?

Hi all, I have been setting up PFX2 in PinballX using the new direct table command line launch method. I should clarify I am using a 2 monitor cabinet. Tables are setup individually and loading nicely using the following settings and this Pinball FX2.xml file in C:\Program Files (x86)\PinballX\Databases\Pinball FX2 I am using PinballX to load Namsan's animated PFX2 backglasses in .mp4 format which are loading and working great I would also recommend Draco's Wheel Images for anyone interested. I have moved the DMD to my second (backglass) monitor using dotmatrix.cfg The last piece of the puzzle requires the use of an AutoHotkey script to remove the frame/title/window/buttons around the DMD ... ie Borderless_DMD script And here is my problem ... when I launch PFX2 on its own the script works beautifully giving you a nice clean DMD but when I launch PFX2 tables through PinballX the script doesn't work and I am left with the ugly framed DMD! Is anyone else experiencing this problem?

Fantastic work looks great thank you! Can you please re-post the "Football_Liverpool" wheel please as the link for it doesn't seem to work