Configuring lights in Mission Pinball Framework is a bit of effort. You need a config block for each light, and there are lots and lots of them. Rather than type it all in, I wanted to take some existing config files and add a bunch of single lines to them, and then have a magical script turn that gibberish into…
To assist in development the aim is to have: I managed this previously but it needs reworking to accommodate Godot. 🔥 Achieving point 1: VM Linux MPF Godot 🔥 Achieving point 2: VM Copies Super easy - VirtualBox takes care of it all. 🔥 Achieving point 3: Same Godot and MPF projects on Windows and VMs VirtualBox provides a shared…
With the assistance of Mr Anthony van Winkle, I've managed to get a simple attract slide functioning in Godot, and extended it to a (working) rudimentary carousel: I'm back where I was a year ago, but with better options for the future! I also don't want to say that it took 15 hours to get here, but it took 15…
The Mission Pinball Framework is a complex creature I've written about many times. Recently there has been an upgrade; version 0.80 has a major change in how graphics, and sound are implemented. Previously there was mc, the inhouse media "thing" developed by the MPF people. It worked a bit like a spreadsheet program with the sheets being strung together in…
Through my long and perilous journey to get MPF into a fit state to run a pinball machine, I learnt a few things. Many of them specific to the time and versions I used, but in general the types of things to look out for are same. And please note, you can just as easily be lucky and have everything work first time – that’s what the developers aim for, and it does happen.Â
The Backbox is the first thing you see…