#Virtual pinball pro
#Virtual pinball Pc
#Virtual pinball simulator
#Virtual pinball free

Originally posted by PinStratsDan:I'm an Xbox One player, so can't play VPX. It also appears that Zen makes a lot of their money from their mobile platforms (gathered from that Blahcade podcast), so unfortunately the virtual cabinet crowd is not their main priority.

There was a big jump in visual fidelity and in framerate (from 30 to 60 fps) from Pinball FX2 to Pinball FX3, so I'm hoping for the same from FX3 to FX4 (which might only happen at a much later stage). Zen confirmed in their latest appearance on the Blahcade Pinball Podcast that they are in the process of implementing their latest Williams Physics into all their existing tables and that they are also preparing for the release of the new Playstation and Xbox consoles.

#Virtual pinball pro

I can play it at 60 fps on my 5 year old 13' Macbook Pro or on my IPad, and you can change views compared to the set viewpoint of VPX. My guess is that theirs don't look as realistic potentially because of their proprietary game engine, the scalability of the game across platforms i.e. Zen though also take all the tables apart (usually their own or sourced from the Budapest Pinball Museum) and scan in the parts. I would love to though as tables such as The Flintstones and Tales of the Arabian Nights both look and play stunningly from the footage I've seen. I'm an Xbox One player, so can't play VPX.

#Virtual pinball simulator

Like I said, 5 years ago Visual pinball was little more than a 2d simulator with laughable physics, so improvements certainly appear to be accelerating at a rapid pace. If you haven't played in a year a lot has probably changed. The fact that VPX not only allows you to play many of these classic tables in stunning graphical detail with realistic physics, but also allows an incredible degree of customization, is infinite value for the imaginary $.

#Virtual pinball free

Generally I tend to expect a lot more from paid products than I do from free software. I'll take your word for it on NGG, as I haven't tried that one yet, but everything I have tried is perfectly playable. Demoing both on a cab and a monitor everything looks pretty darn '3D' to me. I don't know about rendering tricks or whatever, don't really care how they make it look good.

#Virtual pinball Pc

Nothing in playing VPX tables is beyond the intelligence of the average pc gamer, though customizing the experience to your liking takes a bit of time. All in all though ease of installation and playing tables has certainly improved over the years. User friendliness could be improved, they could do a better job of packaging the required components of a table all in one, and they could split the editor and player into separate executables. I loved VPX when I used it, but it really isn’t user-friendly to set up and has its limitations. Maybe the engine has improved by leaps and bounds in the last year.

Certain tables like NGG were almost impossible to emulate with VPX10 because you couldn’t make a ball fly off a ramp.ĭisclaimer: I haven’t seen the state of VPX in over a year. Many tables were still scripting the the ball to teleport to different levels. I haven’t seen the VR version of VPX but it must be a new engine because VPX10 was not a 3D engine last I checked. But they look terrible if you change the view angle. The VPX community has indeed pushed VPX to its limits, some of them have resorted to rendering tricks to get the tables to look good at specific angles (the angles that make sense for pincabs).

So, yes, it’s possible to compete with free. Originally posted by Monochromatic:VPX10 is not a user friendly experience. Their original tables are well crafted and unique, but the featherweight ball physics makes them nearly unplayable. If I were in their shoes I'd focus less on the Williams stuff, and fix the ball physics on their original tables. Zen might want to up their game if they are targeting the virtual pinball cabinet crowd, if they can't compete with free offerings, they might have a problem. It's amazing what a dedicated group of people can do for 0$. Visual pinball used to be a joke just 5 or so years ago, but VPX has really pushed the limits for graphical detail. Physics are a bit of mixed bag in Visual Pinball, with some tables more heavily scripted/customized than others, but Zen's physics are kind of a mixed bag right now as well. Where Zen seems to have remodeled the 3d objects, cutting down the detail and applying a cartoonish style to it, Visual Pinball scans in the 3d models and textures and presents them in stunning detail. Visually there really is no comparison, Visual Pinball graphics just wipe the floor with Fx3 when it comes to recreating all the fine details of the original tables. Just tried out Tales of the Arabian Nights in Visual Pinball 10, comparing it to Zen/Fx3.