MPF pinball ZeDMD demo

Demo video

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/OaKfcrMCkjA

Running steps

• Install Godot
• Create and activate a python environnement
• Run this commands :

pip install numpy

git clone https://github.com/PPUC/mpf-zedmd.git
cd mpf-zedmd
git checkout 0.80.x
pip install -e .

cd ..
git clone https://github.com/PPUC/MPF-pinball-ZeDMD-demo.git

cd MPF-pinball-ZeDMD-example

• Run Godot
  • Import project.godot
  • Accept the error message
• Close and restart Godot
  • Run the Godot project
• Run MPF :

mpf

In order to launch mpf and Godot with only 1 command line :

mpf both -t -G /path-to-Godot/Godot_v4.3-stable_linux.x86_64 

How does it works ?

This work comes from this tutorial of Paradigm Tilt:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQqKG2Ie6KM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO3U1SMZ5-A

And from Anthony van Winkle post here : https://groups.google.com/g/mpf-users/c/eTe_1PEFQq4/m/Kl4Vp8FdBAAJ

You can see in the config.yaml the hardware configuration I setup, yours will of course vary but there is no requirement for window: or displays: sections. There is one important thing you need to configure and that's the name of the dmd (under the rgb_dmds: section). In the sample repo it's named fast_rgb_dmd, and in the godot scene dmd_window.tscn the main Window has a child node (of type MPFDMDDisplay) and the node name is also fast_rgb_dmd. It's necessary for you to make sure your DMD node name matches the rgb_dmd name in your config, because that's how MPF knows which DMD to update.