Objectives

• Enable creation and playing of 3d arcade environments.
• Support multiplayer rooms as well as single player mode, including offline play.
• Support for desktop, joypad and VR controls/rendering.
• Enable creation of interactive 3d arcade machines for use in arcade environments.
• Importing of 3d models from packages such as Blender (probably as GLTF files), to build machines plus other environment assets.
• For fruit machines, support for extracting and importing 2d layouts from Mfme.
• For MAME, export function for text only 'classic' internal layouts for inclusion in MAME source, plus graphical 'dx' layouts.

Architecture

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        Hub["Launcher / Hub"]
        AssetLibrary[("Asset Libary")]
        MachineDatabase[("Machine Database")]
    end

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        MfmeLayoutExtractor["MFME Layout Extractor"]
        LayoutEditor["Layout Editor"]
        MameLayoutBuilder["MAME Layout Builder"]
    end

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        ArcadeSimulator["Arcade Simulator"]
        CabinetEditor["Cabinet Editor"]
        MachinePlayer["Machine Player"]
    end
    

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Roadmaps

Overall

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    Launcher/Hub : 2, 3        
    section Data
    Machine Database : 4, 5    
    Asset Library : 4, 6    
    section Layout
    MFME Layout Extractor : 0, 2    
    Layout Editor : 1, 7    
    MAME Layout Builder : 2, 3     
    section 3d
    Cabinet Editor : 3, 5    
    Machine Player : 4, 6    
    Arcade Simulator : 5, 8    

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Machine Database

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    TODO : 4, 6    
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Asset Library

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    TODO : 3, 5    
    TODO : 4, 6    
    TODO : 5, 8    

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MFME Layout Extractor

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    title TODO MFME Layout Extractor elements
    dateFormat X
    axisFormat %s
    section TODO
    TODO : 2, 3        
    section TODO
    TODO : 3, 5    
    TODO : 4, 6    
    TODO : 5, 8    

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Layout Editor

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    TODO : 2, 3        
    section TODO
    TODO : 3, 5    
    TODO : 4, 6    
    TODO : 5, 8    

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MAME Layout Builder

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    axisFormat %s
    section TODO
    TODO : 2, 3        
    section TODO
    TODO : 3, 5    
    TODO : 4, 6    
    TODO : 5, 8    

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Cabinet Editor

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    title TODO Cabinet Editor elements
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    section TODO
    TODO : 2, 3        
    section TODO
    TODO : 3, 5    
    TODO : 4, 6    
    TODO : 5, 8    

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Machine Player

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    title TODO Machine Player elements
    dateFormat X
    axisFormat %s
    section TODO
    TODO : 2, 3        
    section TODO
    TODO : 3, 5    
    TODO : 4, 6    
    TODO : 5, 8    

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Arcade Simulator

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    title TODO Arcade Simulator elements
    dateFormat X
    axisFormat %s
    section TODO
    TODO : 2, 3        
    section TODO
    TODO : 3, 5    
    TODO : 4, 6    
    TODO : 5, 8    

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Todo/In Progress/Done tasks/features

All issues are currently being tracked on a private Jira server for developer convenience. A way may be found to share a live public view of this in future.

Unity technical details

Unity version is 2024 Preview.

We are using Built-in Render Pipeline, this is due to lightmap baking being impractical for user-created environments (Arcades, Crazy Golf courses, race tracks etc)... all Unity runtime-lightmap baking solutions seemed lacking (on device, remote lightmap baking server etc), and by the time this is a mature product, RTX cards may be relatively standard and affordable, meaning dynamic light/shadows with no baked maps required.