Less good picture quality at loading screen

[SteLo]

Hi there,

I have a 4k setup with PinballX 5.31. When looping through Pinballs I see very good quality screenshot. After selecting a table I can see the loading screen with the same screenshot but less good quality. When the table starts, I see the table in very good quality again like in the looping screen.

How can I get the loading screen in the same good quality?

I attached pictures from the above description.

Thank you, Stefan

 

[scutters]

Not sure if you're using loading videos or letting pinballx take a screenshot and show that during table load.

That setting is controlled in Settings.exe->General Settings->Table Loading Media mode, loading videos have generally a better result (for me anyway). 

Please attach your pinballx.ini and log.txt files! 

[SteLo]

Thank you scutter for your reply.

I use Table Loading Media mode: „Use playfield image“. With your suggestion „Use loading folders“ I see only my „loading“ gif and no playfield.

I use PBXrecorder for my Table Images. These images have a very good quality, but 20MB ist too much to attach.

PS: If I schuld need a plug-in for the loading images that would be fine for me too.

PinballX.ini log.txt

[scutters]

Ok.. as you're using table images rather than videos i think using 'loading images' could work for you (if you have some spare disk space);

1. Backup the contents of your media\loading images folder somewhere (can just be copied, no need to delete from the loading images folder)
2. Copy table images from from the media\databasename\table images folder to the media\loading images folder
3. Right click on the image files just copied in file explorer and select to rotate left (or right) twice (i'm going from memory that loading images need to be rotated 180deg from table images - but might be wrong). This will work for multiple image files if selected, so no need to do one at a time.
4. In settings set to use 'loading folders'
5. Copy the loading image derandomiser plugin to your plugins folder and enable it in pluginmanager

Hopefully you should now have the table images used as loading images. Been a while since i've tested loading images with the plugin so sorry if here's any issues (or step 2 isn't needed)!.

If they don't look any better then you can disable the plugin and remove the images in media\loading images and restore the files from backup, and change back to use playfield image in settings.

[SteLo]

Thank you for the detailed description scutters.

I followed your instructions. I had to rotate the image once to the left. Now I see the image in better (but not best) quality, but I loose the ability to see my animated Overlay from /Media/Loading Images/Loading.gif in front of the playfield image.

I prefer to see the Loading.gif so also my friends see that the table is still loading and they don’t need to push any buttons.

Another idea: When I open my table image with the windows viewer, than the quality is great but it is upside down. It seems that PBX has to rotate the image bevor viewing it, but the rotation may leads to the poor quality. Maybe Tom can say something about the internals and take a look.

Thanks and best regards,

Stefan

 

[scutters]

9 hours ago, SteLo said:

I followed your instructions. I had to rotate the image once to the left. Now I see the image in better (but not best) quality, but I loose the ability to see my animated Overlay from /Media/Loading Images/Loading.gif in front of the playfield image.

Gotcha.. that would be a problem with that solution (that i overlooked)

10 hours ago, SteLo said:

Another idea: When I open my table image with the windows viewer, than the quality is great but it is upside down. It seems that PBX has to rotate the image bevor viewing it, but the rotation may leads to the poor quality. Maybe Tom can say something about the internals and take a look.

Yep, the 'use playfield images' option working is internal to pinballx so would need Tom to look at for any possible improvement