Bally Airway (1935)

[ohmwiz]

Hello...

I am working on a VP Bally Airway game. It plays OK, but I need to know how to make the next ball appear to play once the last one lands in a hole.
Also, where do you find the VP 'pins' and 'holes' functions for the bumperless/flipperless games? I had to cut and paste 'holes' from another game to get mine to work.

Ken

[tiltjlp]

Well Ken, congratulation on starting your first table. You control the things you mentioned in the script, and while I've done it with my tables, I'm not much of a coder, so I can't tell you how it's done. But I can point you to my Reactions Bagatelle, which is fully commented, and my Bagatelle Starter Kit, which is bare bones, and has one of each item needed to contruct a bagatelle.

I realize you aren't making a bagatelle, but much of the code in Reactions will apply to any flipperless table. As far as making another ball appear, first you use Drain.DestroyBall as part of a sub routine, and then CreateBall.Image = "strange" in another routine to make another ball apprear. "strange" would be replaced by whatever the name of your ball is.

Reactions has several features you might find useful. One is a routine for a pop-up Rules/Information window, and the other is a routine for a Launch/Kicker. You'll also find a demo of the Launch/Kicker by Druadic, as well as my demos, in the Tutorial Download section. Hope some of this helps, rather than confusing you.

tiltjlp