Yeah, let's talk about pinball, yesterday tried some tables from pinball fx3 and got impressed how much I liked playing, not that visceral feeling of a real machine but it delighted me.
Tried some mods to play on vr with the original game and it was fun too.
Many simulations are great! You can definitely learn many of the basics with them, and the better simulations will even let you learn a table quite well before you play a real one.
But they're always missing the magic of the light show in front of you and the machine shaking as it does stuff!
One other thing that I've not seen done well in a sim (though I haven't played some of the most recent ones) is ball spin.
Much of the randomness in a real game comes from the wildly different ways the ball might spin from a rebound off a target and that'll change its trajectory in weird ways!
That's interesting, will try to see how it's modeled in open source. But I think you are right at least to the extent that I feel that mostly it might be modeled after only rotation on the Z axis, as this is the easiest thing to code.
Just to clarify, after looking at VPinballX code, it does indeed simulate all the physics for the ball in all 3 axis, and also implements friction on materials and everything.
I'm going to share images from the High Plains Arboretum instead.
I was on a tour on Saturday (which was lovely!) and the City of Cheyenne, Wyoming State Parks & Culture Resources, and the USDA are hopefully going to turn it into a State Park/Historic Site.
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Tried some mods to play on vr with the original game and it was fun too.
But they're always missing the magic of the light show in front of you and the machine shaking as it does stuff!
Still think fondly about the first time I got a free play out of a Twister machine 20 something years ago
Much of the randomness in a real game comes from the wildly different ways the ball might spin from a rebound off a target and that'll change its trajectory in weird ways!
Here is an example.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veadt9vaTRM
I was on a tour on Saturday (which was lovely!) and the City of Cheyenne, Wyoming State Parks & Culture Resources, and the USDA are hopefully going to turn it into a State Park/Historic Site.
Fort Laramie strawberries are from here