[RESOLVED] Pinball Arcade / TPAFreemod / Backglass

[pindapoe]

Hello,

I'm using Pinball Arcade / TPAFreemod and I want to just display an image as backglass in my second monitor, I want to disable the cabinet mode in the mod, and use it to just launch the tables, so I can see the DMD in the playfield screen.

Anyone knows a way, script? utility? to show the backglass image?

Thanks

[Mike_da_Spike]

Why not just showing the backglass image/video from pinballx during game play ? 

Didn't have tpa itself has a folder with backglasses, so you can put yourself your own backglass imapge in it ?

Another way woyld be to create a launch.cmd. with a parametee you can launch a picture viewer that will be displayed the correct image to your backglass and launch tpa after. Check the pinball wicked script for the picture viewer

[pindapoe]

2 hours ago, Mike_da_Spike said:

Why not just showing the backglass image/video from pinballx during game play ? 

Didn't have tpa itself has a folder with backglasses, so you can put yourself your own backglass imapge in it ?

Another way woyld be to create a launch.cmd. with a parametee you can launch a picture viewer that will be displayed the correct image to your backglass and launch tpa after. Check the pinball wicked script for the picture viewer

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Thanks for your reply, I tried from the manager disabling the hide backglass option, but when Pinball Arcade Launchs, the right half of the screen goes black, any ideas?

 

[pindapoe]

I found that the problem is generated by the autorotation screen feature of tpafreemod, but if I rotate with Irotate, same problem, the backglass in the second screen just doesnt like that the first screen (playfield) be rotated, any ideas about this?

[Mike_da_Spike]

ah thats true.
Pinball Arcade needs rotated screen, so, hide Backglass doesn't work (well, I thought it would only rotate the playfield and not the backglass)

For pinball Wicked, I use Image monitor view.
There is a thread in the form, but basically, I run a launch batch file :
 

TITLE PinballWicked
c:\windows\system32\reg.exe import C:\Pinball\DisplayTools\DC2\monitor_100dpi.reg
C:\Pinball\DisplayTools\DC2\dc2.exe -configure=C:\Pinball\DisplayTools\DC2\4kdisplay_portrait.xml
start "" /min C:\Pinball\Scripts\PBX\Image_Monitor_View.exe 1 "C:\pinball\PinballX\Media\Pinball Wicked\Backglass Images\Black Flaggers.png"
start "" /min C:\Pinball\DMDext\dmdext.exe mirror --source=screen --position=15 10 810 200 --no-virtual -d pindmdv3

Line one set the title of the batch file (to kill it after wards)
Line two set the registry key for 100%DPI (when I quiet , I set it to 150%, otherwise all is very small)
Line three set the screen in portrait mode in 4k 
Line four shows an image on the backglass
Line five is to mirror the on screen DMD to my pindmdv3

When stopping the game, you need of course kill the programs  that are launch :

@echo off
"C:\Pinball\DisplayTools\DC\dc64cmd.exe" -rotate=up
taskkill /im dmdext.exe /f
taskkill /IM Image_Monitor_View.exe /F
taskkill /im cmd.exe /f

hope it make sense and that you can use it for TPA and freecammod

[pindapoe]

14 hours ago, Mike_da_Spike said:

ah thats true.
Pinball Arcade needs rotated screen, so, hide Backglass doesn't work (well, I thought it would only rotate the playfield and not the backglass)

For pinball Wicked, I use Image monitor view.
There is a thread in the form, but basically, I run a launch batch file :
 

TITLE PinballWicked
c:\windows\system32\reg.exe import C:\Pinball\DisplayTools\DC2\monitor_100dpi.reg
C:\Pinball\DisplayTools\DC2\dc2.exe -configure=C:\Pinball\DisplayTools\DC2\4kdisplay_portrait.xml
start "" /min C:\Pinball\Scripts\PBX\Image_Monitor_View.exe 1 "C:\pinball\PinballX\Media\Pinball Wicked\Backglass Images\Black Flaggers.png"
start "" /min C:\Pinball\DMDext\dmdext.exe mirror --source=screen --position=15 10 810 200 --no-virtual -d pindmdv3

Line one set the title of the batch file (to kill it after wards)
Line two set the registry key for 100%DPI (when I quiet , I set it to 150%, otherwise all is very small)
Line three set the screen in portrait mode in 4k 
Line four shows an image on the backglass
Line five is to mirror the on screen DMD to my pindmdv3

When stopping the game, you need of course kill the programs  that are launch :

@echo off
"C:\Pinball\DisplayTools\DC\dc64cmd.exe" -rotate=up
taskkill /im dmdext.exe /f
taskkill /IM Image_Monitor_View.exe /F
taskkill /im cmd.exe /f

hope it make sense and that you can use it for TPA and freecammod

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With your help, I have now working perfectly, thanks you very much sir!

[Mike_da_Spike]

Glad I could point you to a direction my friend !