Calling all PinballX Gurus and SMEs! Documentation Challenge

[Tom Speirs]

Sorry for the delay. Here are the supported file formats:

Table Videos

f4v;.mp4

Backglass and DMD Videos:

.mp4;.m4v;.f4v;.flv

Gameplay and Tutorial Videos:

.mp4;.m4v

Startup Videos:

"avi", "mpg", "mpeg", "mp4", "m4v", "f4v", "flv"

Audio:

.mp3;.ogg;.wav

Wheels:

png

All Other Images,

Png,Jpg

[zeenon]

1.01 Minor updates (mostly formatting) and addition of support file format section.

1.02 Added additional info to section 4.8

1.04 Added configuring MAME section

PinballX_S2F_Documentation rev 1.04.zip

[Zeiram]

Your last rev is looking really nice. I've been cutting my teeth on PBX for around a week now, and I learned some things from it that I will try out tomorrow! (e.g. I didn't know about the XML name/value pairs for hiding/showing backglasses and DMDs - hoping that will solve my disappearing FX2 BGs. I will be looking into running MAME on my cab soon also!))

One topic that's fresh in my mind since I've been working on it this evening is .AHK customization for Pinball FX2. It might be good to add header comments in your sample to point out that the file will almost certainly need to be edited and recompiled. I picked up on how that's hung together fairly quickly by crawling through some excellent threads, but I doubt it will be obvious to most.

Another section that might be useful is a list of common problems/user errors. I know I struggled a bit with focus when setting up BAM/FP. You do a good job pointing out the difference between virtual DMDs and real DMDs, but that was something else that tripped me up - I wasted a fair bit of time trying to get my pinDMD2 to do things that PBX currently doesn't support.

[zeenon]

1.05 Added Section 4.7 (explains what 1.72 really does sorry Tom I had to read it 10x to figure out what it did), 5.5, 5.6, and updated 5.3/5.4.

Zeiram, I'll add a few comments in the next rev.

Z

SEE NEWEST VERSION IN THREAD STICKY

[Tom Speirs]

Thanks Zeenon. This has come on substantially since I last looked at it. Good job!

[Draco1962]

Your last rev is looking really nice. I've been cutting my teeth on PBX for around a week now, and I learned some things from it that I will try out tomorrow! (e.g. I didn't know about the XML name/value pairs for hiding/showing backglasses and DMDs - hoping that will solve my disappearing FX2 BGs. I will be looking into running MAME on my cab soon also!))

One topic that's fresh in my mind since I've been working on it this evening is .AHK customization for Pinball FX2. It might be good to add header comments in your sample to point out that the file will almost certainly need to be edited and recompiled. I picked up on how that's hung together fairly quickly by crawling through some excellent threads, but I doubt it will be obvious to most.

Another section that might be useful is a list of common problems/user errors. I know I struggled a bit with focus when setting up BAM/FP. You do a good job pointing out the difference between virtual DMDs and real DMDs, but that was something else that tripped me up - I wasted a fair bit of time trying to get my pinDMD2 to do things that PBX currently doesn't support.

Without the document becoming a small novel, I would recommend a link to the forums as it is easy for some issues to become deprecated as new versions are released of PinballX and the various emulators/apps. The forums really are the best place for troubleshooting.

[scrivy]

I just posted a guide for installing dwjukebox here that would be a good addition: http://www.gameex.info/forums/topic/14162-guide-for-installing-dwjukebox-for-pinballx-in-your-pincab/

[Draco1962]

Thanks scrivy for your submission! It looks really thorough and addresses an issue brought up by some of our other members.

Would you mind converting it to the template in this post? While it isn't necessary, our goal is to have the user submitted documents follow a consistent and familiar layout.

[zeenon]

scrivy,

If you want me to cut and paste this into the main doc(with credit to you) let me know via PM?

edit: I had a little time so I merged this into the main doc giving credit to scrivy

Z

PinballX_S2F_Documentation rev 1.07.docx.zip

PinballX_S2F_Documentation rev 1.07.pdf

[rockyrocket]

I think Settingsons is due some credit as well for creating Pinjukelaunch and possibly blur for originally incorporating it into fplaunch?.

[zeenon]

Updated to include the new GameEX online options and new .xml/ahk scripts for Pinball FX2.

Z

PinballX_S2F_Documentation rev 1.08.pdf

[nullPointer]

Dude you're a hero. Thanks for keeping this document up to date.

[zeenon]

Updated to include new options in 1.85 (Real DMD support) and how to add multiple versions of VP.

Z

As always I try to double check for accuracy, so if you see anything misspelled, not sounding right, or out of place please let me know (no matter how small).

[Draco1962]

Thanks for keeping this document up to date!

[zeenon]

Updated to fall inline with PinballX ver 1.89.

Edit: Uh-oh for some reason I can't upload anything larger then 6.84MB, the new file is 12MB. Tom and company any way to increase my capacity? I tried deleting some of the old versions in this thread, but it still gives me a max of 6.84MB.

Z

[Tom Speirs]

You should be good now.

Cheers.

Tom.

[zeenon]

I'll try to rev this up to v1.91 by weeks end......

PinballX_S2F_Documentation rev 1.1.pdf

[B2K24]

Thanks so much for this awesome Documentation. It has saved me from asking a ton of questions.

Which font is used for the white letters in the 1.2 layout section? I kinda like that and would like to switch to that in my setup

[zeenon]

Google "SpinCycle.TTF"

Z