HOW TO MAKE A PINBALL MACHINE: Light Shows

HOW TO MAKE A PINBALL MACHINE: Making Light Shows using Showcreator by Mark Incitti

Designing and coding lightshows can be a horrendously tedious bit of work. Luckily, there's a tool that will automatically create light shows for us!

NOTE: Mark says that the "start hidden" and "finish hidden" controls are for allowing you to leave the shape image showing while other segments are playing. For example, you might make something that moves across and stops, leaving something lit. Then another segment plays and lights something else.

Table of Contents:

0:00 Intro
0:20 The basic apps we'll need
1:40 Basic lights.yaml config file
3:43 Visualizing your light placements
5:20 Defining LEDs in your lights.yaml config
10:51 MPF Monitor - Adding Lights
14:57 Getting started with "Showcreator"
19:35 Keyboard shortcuts for the Showcreator
26:42 Global vs isolated animations
27:23 Working with segments, timing and delays
32:10 Example Animations I created
36:02 First Wrap up
38:06 The Power of Audio and Visuals together
40:16 Final, final wrap up!

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Links to Resources mentioned in the video:

Download link for Showcreator: https://github.com/missionpinball/sho...

MPF Documentation for "Showcreator": https://docs.missionpinball.org/tools...

Jan's video "Showcreator Demo":    • Show Creator Demo - How to create shows in...  

FAST Hardware Documentation - ​​https://docs.fastpinball.com/

Step-by-step Tutorial for getting the lower third of your pinball playfield powered, connected and flipping!: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1E...

Led Zeppelin Pinball Project BoM (Bill of Materials): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

Public Files on my Google Drive:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Pinball Cabinet Fusion 360 file created by and shared with permission by John Marsh
-- Spike 2 Pinball Cabinet: https://a360.co/2RatbVw

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