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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cloda" data-source="post: 296765" data-attributes="member: 7520">Zen's video clip in their latest The Pinball Show is Williams physics i.e. live catch and flipper movement.  It looks like they still need to work on the physics a lot even to match what they already had in FX3 Williams Classic Arcade with e.g. Monster Bash.The VPX is not at optimal settings ;-) .  I have a 10 year old PC and I have to turn down a lot of visual settings including anti-aliasing, shadows and reflections.  The lighting effects of the playfield are baked in, so I don't know what you are doing for it to look washed out?  Maybe you are moving the day/night slider up too much?  Quality of VPX tables is linked to authors as you say.  There has been a vast improvement in VPX quality over the last two years mostly because of a team of VPX veteran authors called the Visual Pinball Workshop (VPW) mod team that has set the standard.  They have released 21 tables in two years that are all top-quality in terms of physics, lighting, sound etc.  They also give input on many table author's work and help them to e.g. implement the latest physics that they have developed called nfozzy/rothbauer physics.  They include table authors such as Skitso, Uncle Paulie, Flupper1, Bord, Daphishbowl, G5K and many others.  There are also other great table authors outside of the VPW mod team and their collaborators including Goldchicco, JP Salas and Loserman57 which have all produced loads of high-quality tables.  They play differently than the VPW mod tables, as they use different solutions for e.g. physics, but still look and play great.  There are 100s of top-quality tables available and every couple of months they get updated (especially the VPW mod team tables) with e.g. refined physics, as they improve on it.  VPX (and soon VPE) will never be competition for Zen and Pinball FX as it is only PC based and purposefully designed so that you must be hands-on to get anywhere with it.  It is though a better experience for those that are willing to work with it.  I used to play only Pinball FX3 (mostly Williams), but since I got a PC about 8 months ago, I've only played VPX as the gameplay experience on the top tables are unmatched by Zen or anyone else.  My favourite tables at this stage are mostly by VPW mod team and their collaborators and include Indiana Jones The Pinball Adventure, The Lord of the Rings Valinor Edition, Tales from the Crypt, Taxi, Whirlwind and Spider Man Vault Edition.  There are so many great tables that I just haven't gotten to including Batman 66, Guardians of the Galaxy and Metallica.</blockquote>

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