Highscore Cards
The term "frontend" in this section is used for PinUP Popper or PinballX.
The VPin Studio comes with a highscore card editor and generator. The highscore images are updated on every table start or exit if the user has generated a new highscore. If the table has not been exited before shutdown, the VPin Server will will re-check the highscore status, send Discord notifications if required and configured and re-generetes the highscore card.
The VPin Highscore Card Editor
The editor supports multiple editing options, like font types, font sizes, headlines and spacings. The check if the layout works, the editor provides a sample selectors which shows all tables that currently have a highscore.
Note that for newly installed tables no highscore may be available until the table is played for the first time.
If you still miss a table here, check the "Tables" metadata section if the ROM name is configured properly and highscore data is available.
By default, the VPin Studio tries to resolve a default picture for every table. For more details about this resolving, see section Default Backgrounds int the Tables section.
The Default Background View
To enable the highscore generation, a valid frontend target screen must be selected in the preferences under Highscore Preferences -> Card Preferences.
If a screen has been selected, but the corresponding key binding isn't configured in PinUP Popper, an additional error messsage will be shown. In that case, open the PinUP Popper Config tool, select Popper Setup -> Controller Setup and add a key binding that matches the selected screen.
The "Default Background" section shows the background image that is used when a highscore card is generated for the table or when a competition image is generated. The default image is resolved in this order:
- Check if the table is using a directb2s file. If the file is available, extract the background image from it.
- If not directb2s file is found, the video or image of Popper's media configuration is taken from screen "Backglass". The VPin Studio Server extracts an image from the video if one is available there.
- If none of the previous media is found, the PUP pack of the table (if available) is analyzed. If a default video for the backglass can be determined, an image is extracted from this video. (Because this can result in rather unexpected results, this is the last option).
Alternatively, the upload action can be used to set a default image manually.
