VisualPinball.Engine VS MyBox

If there are any pinhead game devs out there, we're still working on the next generation of Visual Pinball, called VPE[1].

However, given the current drama around Unity, we're currently looking into Godot to evaluate how much effort it would take to port, and how Godot will support our needs.

[1] https://github.com/freezy/VisualPinball.Engine

Pinball on computers is thriving too.

Visual Pinball X ("VPX", see https://www.vpforums.org/index.php?app=downloads&showcat=51) runs community authored recreated tables with ROMs dumped from the hardware. The physics engine has good performance and authenticity.

Another project, Visual Pinball Engine, ported the C++-based physics engine to Unity (https://github.com/freezy/VisualPinball.Engine) through its DOTS & "HPC#" (C# with manual memory management extensions) approach. Unity adoption means you can play high fidelity tables right in your browser (https://appmana.com/watch/pinball).

Then there's commercial platforms like Pinball FX and people building VPX rendering in VR.

It's maybe the biggest simulation scene I know of. The community fills many niches. Rigs of Rods & Beam.ng for the idea, "Microsoft Flight Simulator, but for cars." XMage & Spellsource for "Magic the Gathering or Hearthstone but you write your own cards." Unreal Engine for Fortnite is a big entry for the open world community authored content dominated by Minecraft, with submarine stuff like Facepunch's S&box (think Garry's Mod 2.0) coming up.

No it's just a modernising of the engine and gfx for modern machines. a lot of the VPX devs and table makers are actively helping create VPE as it's an open source project on github. https://github.com/freezy/VisualPinball.Engine

We're developing this: https://github.com/freezy/VisualPinball.Engine/

Shameless plug, we're working on a next-gen pinball simulator called Visual Pinball Engine[1]. It's free and open source, using Unity, and will eventually support importing FP's table format.

It's still WIP, but we've put a lot of focus on tooling, so anyone can easily create tables.

Quick video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CfZImFl1ME

[1] https://github.com/freezy/VisualPinball.Engine

We've been working on an open source pinball framework for Unity for a while now, in case you're interested: https://github.com/freezy/VisualPinball.Engine

Documentation: https://docs.visualpinball.org/ Repository: https://github.com/freezy/VisualPinball.Engine Screenshots: https://github.com/freezy/VisualPinball.Engine/wiki/Unity-Screenshots

This one is a mixed bag of various utility stuff I found. Some is good, some a bit less, but it's fun to explore!

If you dont want to spend the money there is also MyBox, is a free collection of attributes and it comes with one that hides variables on the inspector based on a condition.

Check out Mybox. It has a ton of extra very easy to use attributes that makes your editor components much more structured. :)

MyTools by Deadcows is a life saver, it comes with tons of custom attributes and tools, just download it and copy it into your Assets folder or intall via Git.