Enabling Free Play credit mode

[Greg Sealby]

I am trying to figure out how I add config to my game to toggle between free play and credit games.  I have my credit function configured and see that there is a setting free_play: yes that determines whether the game starts in free play mode or not.

I want to have a setting in my service mode that toggles this off and on.  How do I reference this variable from service mode to change it?  Or is there another way I should be doing this?

[Philip Dixon]

I do this in a scriptlet (see attached)

[jabdoa]

Hi Greg,

there are three events to control the credits mode:

enable_free_play
enable_credit_play
toggle_credit_play

See: http://docs.missionpinball.org/en/dev/game_logic/credits/index.html for more details. I guess we should additionally convert this into a normal setting internally. That would automatically expose it to the service mode. Created this issue to track it: https://github.com/missionpinball/mpf/issues/1353


Jan

[jabdoa]

Added a general setting: https://github.com/missionpinball/mpf/pull/1354. Will be automatically added to your service mode as soon as you add the credits mode.

Jan

[Greg Sealby]

Thanks Philip. I will have a look.

Jan, thanks for adding that feature into service mode. Can't believe you added it so quickly. Am I able install that pull request without affecting my MPF? If not for now I'll just use the events you suggested until the 0.53 release.

[jabdoa]

Hi Greg,

You can try dev if you like. There should not be any breaking changes.

The main change in credits mode is that it will persist the state to a setting automatically.

Jan