NEW POST LIT14 SHOTS1 GUIDE · 1 VIDEO
Mapping fourteen shots from a guide and a video
Placing every shot on a top-down picture, and working out from gameplay footage which flipper makes each one.
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▲ BALL 1 OF 4 · IN PLAY
Rebuilding a pinball table that only exists on a screen.
Zen Studios' 2015 Plants vs. Zombies table never existed as a real machine. This is its rebuild in Visual Pinball X, from bare whitewood to rules, art and sound, one finished step at a time.
Four balls to wizard mode
Each phase is one ball- LIT · IN PLAYIN PLAYBall 1
WhitewoodWhitewoodBare playfield, every shot in place, and a test proving each one can be made. - UP NEXTBall 2
RulesRulesSun, seeds, zombies, the Shop, three multiballs, four Missions and the wizard mode. - UNLITBall 3
Art and sceneryArtPlayfield and plastics art, scenery, and zombies that walk the playfield. - UNLITBall 4
Sound and screensSoundA green dot-matrix display, music and effects, and a leaderboard.
Light all fourteen
0 OF 14 LIT0/14 LITFrom the Flower Pot (1) to the Magna Save target (14). Each insert lights gold when its shot test passes from a flipper.
- Shot 1, Flower Pot: not made yet
- Shot 2, Left Orbit: not made yet
- Shot 3, Mail Ramp: not made yet
- Shot 4, Challenge Hole: not made yet
- Shot 5, Mini Orbit: not made yet
- Shot 6, Brainz up-kicker: not made yet
- Shot 7, Brainz Ramp: not made yet
- Shot 8, Melon Pult Hole: not made yet
- Shot 9, Repeater Ramp: not made yet
- Shot 10, Sun Hole: not made yet
- Shot 11, Zomboss Ramp: not made yet
- Shot 12, Right Orbit: not made yet
- Shot 13, R-I-P targets: not made yet
- Shot 14, Magna Save target: not made yet
Mapped, waiting for its test
Lit: test passed from a flipper
Fresh off the playfield
6 POSTS · NEWEST FIRSTA table that tests its own shots
A test that sweeps 63 launches off a flipper and passes the moment one of them trips the shot's switch.
The first playable template table
Getting a bare template table to build, play and pass its checks, and why Visual Pinball's error pop-ups shaped all of it.
Writing down the rules
The guide's rules in one structure, every shot numbered, and the open questions listed instead of guessed.
Ground rules before the first flipper
A glossary that bans vague words, and two early decisions about how the table is stored and tested.
Rebuilding a table that only exists on a screen
The plan for recreating the table in Visual Pinball X, and the order it gets built in.