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Leaked Development Details

Jannik Vogel edited this page Apr 8, 2017 · 1 revision

FarSight does not seem too worried about internal information leaking.

Making of Pinball Arcade

There is a Video on YouTube which shows the workflow of FarSight Studios.

It helped me to confirm that my file loaders work properly. It also revealed some shortcomings in the preservation process. It also introduces us to some developers.

  • 00:31 Jay Obernolte (President)

  • 02:00 Bobby King (Director of Development)

  • 05:14 Norman Stepansky (Audio Designer, Producer)

  • 07:47 Mike Field (Art Director)

  • 07:47 Renderings of Bride-of-Pinbot on computer screen

  • 08:20 Rendering of Ripleys, Cabinet (white pre-triangulation Wireframe)

  • 08:22 Rendering of Ripleys, Cabinet (Textured)

  • 08:25 Rendering of Ripleys, Cabinet (Textured) + Playfield (Textured)

  • 08:27 Rendering of Ripleys, Cabinet (Ghosted) + Playfield-with-elements (pre-triangulation Wireframe colored by object type)

  • 08:31 Rendering of Ripleys, Cabinet (Textured) + Playfield-with-elements (Textured)

  • 08:33 Various renderings of TOTAN

  • 08:41 Rendering of TOTAN Plastics

  • 08:45 Ripleys Plastic textures

  • 08:48 Rendering of Harley 3D Model (Textured)

  • 08:50 Rendering of Harley 3D Model (cyan Wireframe)

  • 08:52 Rendering of Harley 3D Model (UV Map)

  • 08:55 Ripleys Playfield texture (print only)

  • 08:58 Ripleys Playfield texture (print + ugly wood layer)

  • 09:01 Ripleys Playfield texture (print + ugly wood layer + lighting pre-baked)

  • 10:12 Bobby King shows the debug menus on Ripleys FIXME: The interesting bits follow shortly after, because here we get to see the collision mesh which is normally not shown. But I'm too lazy for writing right now.

  • Overall: Many tables shown without the room environment

PBA Table preservation workflow

FIXME!

Brunswick Bowling 3DS Debug Symbols

I've only heard about this on Citra (3DS Emulator) IRC. I don't know too much about this.

Leaked directory structure

The developer names pop up in a ton of files.

FIXME: Scan for names and folders and list the internal workflow / network of FarSight?