Editing the information page?

[DBrown67]

I know that if I press "pause" when a table is loaded I can bring up an information page for that table. I think some of that info is a bit superfluous... I don't need to see the high scores or which tables have been played most often.

But I would like to add some trivia for that table... like the info contained in the ipdb. Some of that stuff is really interesting. How many units were produced and if that was a prototype model or not.

This might be a lot of work on my part for 300 tables. But I don't know how to go about editing this Info page, or even if what I want to do is possible.

[Mike_da_Spike]

There are some options that you can use.

For example, you can use the instruction directory for it and add your own information. Or use the tutorial directory.

Check the manual starting fro. Page 5-54 to 5-57 for the special folders that you can use. Not sure if a micture of image and videos can be used. I never used it.

[DBrown67]

Thanks for that Mike. I've had a look and it seems that Scutters made a statistics plugin that might be best for my use: 

 

Now I've installed it and I can see the default stats coming up in red on my main screen when in PinballX. Obviously I need to set it all up how I like.

But I can't find out how to launch that Configuration Screen as seen in the linked thread. Scutters said you did quite a bit of testing for this plugin, so can you help please?

When I installed this I placed PBXstatsDisplay.dll and PBXstatsDisplay.ini into the plugins folder. So I don't know how to get that Configuration Screen to appear. 

EDIT:  It's OK... I found how to. I have to launch the PluginManager.exe in previous folder and then select from the list and press "configure".  I'll leave this here for others just in case.

[scutters]

As reply in stats plugin thread i will update the plugin soon with some new options.

Another option in addition to that and and custom instruction cards would be to use custom flyer images for table info, something like these any good?

https://vpuniverse.com/files/file/4549-easter-eggs-cows-flyers/

 

[DBrown67]

39 minutes ago, scutters said:

As reply in stats plugin thread i will update the plugin soon with some new options.

Another option in addition to that and and custom instruction cards would be to use custom flyer images for table info, something like these any good?

https://vpuniverse.com/files/file/4549-easter-eggs-cows-flyers/

 

THAT is exactly the kind of thing I was thinking of!  I'd be happy with plain text myself as I can do that easily enough. I don't have the skills to produce a nice image like that though, with multiple colours and fonts.

[Mike_da_Spike]

IF you create an MP4 of the image and put it into the "Tutorial Videos" directory in media, you can get an extra option when browsing the table or in the pause menu as well:

1 hour ago, scutters said:

As reply in stats plugin thread i will update the plugin soon with some new options.

tell us more !

[scutters]

9 hours ago, DBrown67 said:

THAT is exactly the kind of thing I was thinking of!  I'd be happy with plain text myself as I can do that easily enough. I don't have the skills to produce a nice image like that though, with multiple colours and fonts.

I don't know how many flyers are in that pack, i'm still trying to work out if i want to add them to the cab to replace the classic flyer images so haven't downloaded it. Might be a good starter pack, and then if you know what text you want to add for other tables you could just do a simple image using just one font.

9 hours ago, Mike_da_Spike said:

IF you create an MP4 of the image and put it into the "Tutorial Videos" directory in media, you can get an extra option when browsing the table or in the pause menu as well:

That's thinking outside the box, and another option!.

9 hours ago, Mike_da_Spike said:

tell us more !

Don't really know myself yet!