Reusing Shots Across Modes With Different Profiles

[atum]

All,

I want to ask a question early enough in the process before I regret it later on!  There are many places in the documentation that allude to the fact that you can use a shot in multiple different modes, with multiple different priorities.  e.g., http://docs.missionpinball.org/en/dev/config/shots.html under profile:. I want to make sure I am doing this optimally.

I have similar shots, like a left_orbit that I want to use in multiple cases, and depending on the mode, I might want it on/off/flash, etc.  I have it working so that my priority mode controls the light and hit events for that shot.  But in order to do this I am setting up the shot multiple times with prefixes and profiles in each mode to control that.  For example:

mode_base:

shots:

    left_orbit:

        profile: base_profile

mode_first_mode:

shots:

    first_mode_left_orbit:

        profile: first_mode_profile

mode_second_mode:

shots:

    second_mode_left_orbit:

        profile: second_mode_profile

Is there any way to define this better so that I am not constantly having to redefine the same shots and switches in ever mode for which I want to use this?  Can I define a shot one time, but apply a profile in different modes?  When I try this I get an error about that I cannot overload.  So I am guessing that answer is no, but want to make sure, so that I don't create excessive overhead if there is a better way.

Thanks!

Avery

[jabdoa]

We actually had this until MPF 0.33. Unfortunately it caused a lot of confusion and subtle bugs that we removed it in 0.50. This might come back in the form of prototype objects at some point.

Jan

[atum]

Jan,

Makes sense.  This way is very straight forward, just a lot of typing to make sure all of my shot sequences, etc. match everywhere when I recreate them.

I will continue as I have with creating new shots with a prefix for each mode, and then assign the profile for that mode.  Then toggle mode start and end events/priorities to make sure the right thing is posting and lights displaying at that point in time.

As always, thanks for the quick reply!

Avery