Scrolling Text Animation (Infinite Loop)

[A Kaljunen]

In my pinball machine has one lcd monitor behind backglass, which has some area which shows typically players points, player numbers, multipliers, extra balls and some info through game ect. Lower part of this lcd monitor can be seen  through playfield class, but now it has been dark all the time. I thought, that it should be nice to get something in there. 

In attract mode I'd like to create scrolling text animation (infinite loop) in my lcd scoreboards lower part for example... "PANTHERA HAS BORN SOMEWHERE WHERE SUN NEWER SHINE AND YOU SHOULD START THE GAME AND HELP..." etc. It should scroll  all the time in attract mode even scoreboard show own routines such... game over, last game, top10- list...

I haven't found any examples, tutorial or even instructions to create this kind of looping animation, and my skills are still in quite low level, that I truly don't know where to start and what shall I do. If anybody has some ideas or even examples, I would be grateful?

[james cardona]

typically animations in MPF uses SLIDES and a SLIDE SHOW PLAYER. You can think of the slides like a single page that can have an image or video with text or objects on top of that. This is all similar to powerpoint, in my mind. 

It sounds like you want a piece of text to extend across multiple slides? The only way I have found to do that is to repeat the portion of text you want on each slide. For example, "FREE PLAY" at the bottom of each slide is embedded into the description on every slide. You could reduce the amount of code using a widget, of course.