PinballY Loading Videos

[shurley6201]

Is it possible to create a script for PinballY that uses Loading videos for each game like PinballX currently can do?

[mjrgh]

Take a look at the help under Javascript scripting > Worked Examples > "Seamless" Game Launch, particularly Playing an animated overlay near the end of the chapter.

[shurley6201]

Tried that, but I get nothing. Followed to the letter… copy/past the code into my ‘seamless-launch’ script and have the import command in the main.js script. Have a launch.gif as a test image and I get no results. Something else I can try?

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[shurley6201]

Got a static video to load while waiting for the game to load buck still can’t seem to figure out how to script this so it changes the video based on the game that is loading. Any additional help is much appreciated! Thank you Scott

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[shurley6201]

Still hunting for ideas for this. any guidance would be appreciated

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[shurley6201]

Found a loading video script and added that as an import to main.js. I do not receive errors in the PinballY.log but still do not get any videos.. any ideas?

[RichardL64]

Here you go - runs game specific video if it exists or launch video if not from pinbally/media/videos folder.

https://github.com/RichardL64/Visual-Pinball/blob/main/PinballY/LaunchVideo.js

[csdf27]

I have zero javascript knowledge so forgive me if this is a stupid question, but I wanted to introduce a delay to the video stop event to account for the fact that even once VPX has started, nothing appears on screen for a few more seconds, and i want the loading video to continue to be visible for that time. My attempt was to change the myGameStarted function to the following (for a 3 second delay):
function myGameStarted(ev) {
setTimeout(mainWindow.launchOverlay.bg.clear(0xff000000),3000);
}
But this appears to have zero effect. An alternative was just to comment out the gamestarted event hook entirely, which works fine except I think video continues running in the background somewhere which is a bit wasteful. And when you exit the table, the loading video briefly reappears again.

Any suggestions?

[RichardL64]

Hi - apologies for not replyng earlier...
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function myGameStarted(ev) {
setTimeout(mainWindow.launchOverlay.bg.clear(0xff000000),3000);
}
This approach looks good to me;

1. Did the video work before you made any changes - i.e. we have a good functioning baseline
2. When you made the change below - did pinbally.log give any sort of errors?

Another thing to try is moving the code into its own function, with some logging so you can see what happens in pinballY.log - and perhaps test with a huge delay to make it obvious its working?

I seem to remember brackets after the function make JS call it immediately - so your code above actually shuts down the window right away when what you want to do is pass the function name to the timer - so the following may work (note stopVideo has no brackets after it in the setTimeout call)

function myGameStarted(ev) {
setTimeout(stopVideo, 10000);
}

function stopVideo() {
logfile.log("[LaunchVideo] stopping video");
mainWindow.launchOverlay.bg.clear(0xff000000);
}