wizard91

Hi Zeenon, All sorted now thanks. Seems the main problem with the backglass was the orientation of my monitors in Windows. My backglass was monitor 2 but it was the first monitor listed in the windows display settings. I read somewhere the playfield needs to be on the left and as soon as I swapped them around in the display settings with the playfield first on the left all was good. I moved and resized the dmd on one table to start and it stayed exactly where I wanted it after closing and running again. The Visual Pinball software I just moved to screen 1 (with the playfield) and it now stays in the background when I run the tables. Thanks for all of the help, really pleased to have it all running. Will look at the B2S stuff next and see if I can add in Future pinball, all good fun. Wizard

Thanks again, will give this a go tonight when I get home. I think my Pinballx might but 1.71 so I will try 1.72. Someone also suggested elsewhere just moving the visual pinball software window onto my playfield monitor as the playfield should stay on top so a couple of things to try. As for the DMD I'm using the VPinmame cab version but I need to check that this is in the right place as someone else suggested it needs to be moved into the main VP.exe folder. Hopefully I can crack it tonight or over the weekend as I have a few things to work with now. Cheers Wizard

Hi zeenon, Just wanted to thank you again for your help with the backglass images the other day and for posting the code example above. I added the hidebackglass code to my xml file this evening as it wasn't there originally and they all worked perfectly straight away which was fantastic, so that was all I was missing. I have two other hopefully minor issues now which again I apologise for if they are stupid questions but you may be able to help as they are probably really stupid things along similar lines. 1. When I run a table now the visual pinball software loads but it stays on top / infront of my backglass image on my second monitor rather than loading behind the backglass or table in the background. I'm sure I read something about this somewhere but I can't remember where I saw it. Any ideas? I can minimise it and it is fine but I'm guessing this should load behind or be hidden? 2. My DMD's load up behind the table on my primary monitor. I have moved this onto my backglass monitor and resized this as required on one sample table and I thought I saved the table but when I load again it just reverts back with the DMD behind the table on the primary monitor. Any suggestions on this? I think I read somewhere something about a piece of software specifically for DMDs would that help and do you know the name or where I can find it to download? Anyway thanks so much again, was great to get that working this evening and saved me hours of guess work. Cheers Wizard

Brilliant thanks zeenon, will give it a try. Appreciate the help. Wizard

Hi Zeenon, Thanks for the reply. This was the bit I was missing and hadn't found so far. Will take a look at this when I have it on next and see if I can find the above settings. When you say game manager or edit the xml do you mean the visual pinball xml database for pinballx? My visual pinball database xml doesn't have those additional lines about the backglass on any table, my xml just looks like this below currently for each table: <game name="Attack from Mars"> <description>Attack from Mars</description> <manufacturer>Bally</manufacturer> <year>1990</year> <type>SS</type> </game> Can I just add those additional lines of xml code for the hidebackglass in myself or is there a reason these extra lines wound't be there initially? Am I looking at the right xml!? ;-) As you say this is probably only a temporary measure at this stage just to get things up and running but as I already have the static images there and ready to go I might as well make use of them for now until I can get hold of the direcb2s or b2s files. I need to read up more about this area so thanks for the pointers. Really appreciate it. Wizard

Hi all, I'm new to Pinballx and am currently experimenting with my first cab setup using visual pinball and I'm having a similar problem with the backglass images not working when running the table. I apologise in advance is this is a newbie question. The backglass static image displays fine along with the table image in the pinballx interface and looks great but then when I run a table the table and dmd loads fine but my second monitor for the backglass is just black, no backglass anywhere in the background etc. It would make sense if the vpt file does not load a backglass image as suggested above as nearly all of my tables are vpt's but is there anyway to get a vpt file to load a backglass image with it? I have all of the static backglass images, all png's, all named correctly same as the table currently in the pinballx/media/visual pinball/backglass folder ready to go and ideally would like to just get these static images displaying on my second monitor with the table on my primary. Is this possible? I thought it was just a case of dropping the images into the backglass folder? Thanks in advance for any help or pointers.