First Time Build - "Chimera" (Completed... mostly)

Main > Project Announcements

<< < (7/13) > >>

zeorangr:

--- Quote from: nitrogen_widget on December 02, 2021, 06:57:00 pm ---wire up a smoke machine to kick off when it transforms.

--- End quote ---

I'm not sure the missus would appreciate that. Especially since she's likely to be the primary user for the pinball side of the cabinet. It might be funny to sneak one in there anyway and trigger it remotely or something though! ;D

--- Quote from: PL1 on December 02, 2021, 07:00:59 pm ---
--- Quote from: zeorangr on December 02, 2021, 06:20:27 pm ---Worst case, I'll patch the button hole with wood filler pretty much exactly like you described, and just cut another piece of acrylic for the top, but I'm hoping I can get away with not doing that. ;)

--- End quote ---
If you do end up having to redo the panel, you might want a bit more space between the trackball and the spinner.

Looks like someone playing Golden Tee "Superman" style instead of "two-thumbs" style might end up stubbing their fingers.

Scott

--- End quote ---

...I'm not familiar with the 'two-thumbs' style, I thought slamming your hand forward over the trackball as fast as you could while in various states of inebriation was the accepted method for playing Golden Tee. :lol

Seriously though, that's an excellent suggestion, and was something I was concerned about. It's just barely far enough away now where you WON'T bust your knuckles on it if you try a pretty aggressive golden tee drive (and I did test this), but if I did re-do the panel, I'd try to scoot the trackball forward at least another inch for exactly that reason. I'm still on the fence as to whether to keep the spinner in there permanently or not - I may try to use it for a while and see how much we actually DO use it.

--- Quote from: vertexguy on December 02, 2021, 07:45:20 pm ---
--- Quote from: nitrogen_widget on December 02, 2021, 06:57:00 pm ---wire up a smoke machine to kick off when it transforms.

--- End quote ---

...and let's not forget the classic 1980's Transformers transformation sound effect. :lol

--- End quote ---

I thought Laythe was doing the transformers sound effect on ShapeShifter... :laugh2:

What sound did the go-bots make when they transformed? lol

PL1:

--- Quote from: zeorangr on December 02, 2021, 08:22:53 pm ---...I'm not familiar with the 'two-thumbs' style

--- End quote ---
See 7:07 - 7:25 in this video for "two-thumbs" and 5:03 for "Superman".

Scott
EDIT: Other video wasn't embeddable. :banghead:

zeorangr:
Ok - so I was being a bit flippant earlier about the whole 'inebriated hand-slam' thing for Golden Tee, but I guess I didn't appreciate how deep the control strategies, positioning, and overall gameplay could get. I've really only ever seen Golden Tee in the wild at bars, and well...

Thanks for sharing that video!

Update for this weekend:

Not much visual progress today (no pics at the moment), and it looks like a horrible twisted spaghetti mess for now, but I got the control panel wired. I'm working some today to try and start getting buttons mapped in the ultimarc WinIPAC software and corresponding LED lighting set up with LED Blinky. I'll try to get more of that finalized this week as I have spare time, and then should have some progress pics to post by next Saturday Night or Sunday. I'll have to work through all my scripts I've got running with the ATGames panel and adapt them for this control panel, so that we can load custom controls on the fly for various games / various control schemes... Ideally I can get those working with LEDBlinky as well, so I can custom-light controls for the STEAM games, but first I need to just get a standard layout light-mapped and work from there.

For overall progress, I'm just about to the point where I'm going to start a general teardown and start painting the main cabinet, which is likely to take a couple of weeks since I'm still mainly limited to saturdays for woodshop time. I'll have to remove the screens and the coin door, but that shouldn't be too bad. Once it's painted, I can reassamble it and then look to add 'trim' pieces like screen bezels, screen 'glass' (Using 1/4" clear acrylic for the main screen and marquee screen, and a piece of thin stuff (0.08") for the backglass area. I still need to figure out something for control panel artwork, and get that printed and installed, but things are looking pretty good!

javeryh:
Spring for some glass to cover the monitor if you can. It won’t scratch like acrylic is bound to. Less glare too.

Laythe:
Heh, this is cool! Nice take on a multipurpose transforming machine.

Shapeshifter rotates the vpin pinball table sideways... Flip lays it down from a hinge at the back down to the floor... and Chimera lifts the layback angle up from the rear while telescoping the CP in and out.

Props for coming up with a totally new approach! :cheers:

Navigation

 Message Index

Go to full version