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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sean DonCarlos" data-source="post: 26721" data-attributes="member: 152">Prerendered imaging can look very nice, but it costs you: Single fixed camera angle (unless you're willing to run multiple prerenderings and accept massively increased resource size), no option to do dynamic lighting or even user-adjustable lighting beyond a basic gamma setting, no dynamic ball reflections, etc.Also, the code that runs FarSight's tables is not entirely their own. The ROMs that run these tables are mostly black boxes; FarSight does not have direct control over what they do. Contrast this to Pro Pinball tables, where Silverball presumably knows and controls every state the table could possibly be in, and can generate the prerendered images corresponding to each of those states. Then ask yourself, what happens when a ROM-emulated prerendered table gets into a state that was not foreseen (as they often do, see Cirqus Voltaire's behavior for many examples) and needs to load a prerendered image that isn't there? At minimum, you're going to have missing or corrupted graphics; more likely the table will outright crash.</blockquote>

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