VisualPinball Engine for MacOS / Android / linux - github / discord

Code

Use CMake

Dependancies

• SDL2 + OpenGL
• BASS audio library - commercial/free - up to 4 separate stereo outputs with a 7.1 soundcard
  • VPX Standalone does use BASS for playing WAV’s
• Imgui - used by live editor
• Plog - Pretty powerful logging library in about 1000 lines of code. Cross-platform
• tinyxml2 - small, efficient, C++ XML parser - used for .pov files.
• harfbuzz - a text shaping engine.

Debug mode

### change build instruction from 
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -B build
## to 
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -B build_debug # so you have debug information

Setup a custom .ini files, with proper setting ex: Fullsceen=false and display for picking screen. You can copy & customize the one located in ~/.vpinball/VPinballX.ini

The entries of the .ini files are read with LoadValueWithDefault call, and you can lookup where the value are used in the code (see below for eg).

a Webserver is created on 0.0.0.0:2112

Setup Display

res/exampleTable.vpx is nice and small table for testing.

void Player::PreCreate(CREATESTRUCT& cs) {
    m_fullScreen = LoadValueWithDefault(regKey[RegName::Player], "FullScreen"s, IsWindows10_1803orAbove());
    ...
}

void Player::CreateWnd(HWND parent /* = 0 */) {
...
   const int display = g_pvp->m_primaryDisplay ? 0 : LoadValueWithDefault(regKey[RegName::Player], "Display"s, 0);
   
   if (m_fullScreen) 
   
         m_sdl_playfieldHwnd = SDL_CreateWindow(cs.lpszName, cs.x, cs.y, cs.cx, cs.cy, flags);
}

Project

Make it work on linux to be able to build a pincab not requiring windows.

Next

• How to enable DMD inside B2S in standalone ? - see
  • patch
  • DMD in it’s own windows work fine (see Attack from Mars), but may depends on table implementation
• loading lucy? / anaglyph