Digital Screen Scanner (Colour w/ hitNormal)

[N00bDud3]

That would be epic. I'm no good at this sort of thing. I wish I was.

[Schilcote]

How fast is it? I've been looking for a super-speedy rangercam for the VSP...

[Grocel]

How fast is it? I've been looking for a super-speedy rangercam for the VSP...

You can't make digital scanner faster then about 62 pixel/tick (66.6 ticks/sec in gmod) (Thats about 4129 pixel/sec (about 4 times filling a 32x32 Screen(1024 pixels)) ).

I had made a simple one, with WSR Support:

@name Hispeed Digital Screen Camera
@inputs On Reset NoAuto Pixel XView YView Distance Screen:wirelink
@outputs Process WSRmode
@persist PixelAll Mem X Y Ranger AllowAuto WSRoffset Speed 
@persist XView2 YView2 Distance2
@trigger On

if(!On & ~On | changed(Pixel) | changed(Screen) | first())
{
    WSRoffset = 15
    Mem = -1
    Speed = 1 # Set the Speed, 1 = Half of max speed. More then 2 can cause heavy lags!
    Process = 0
    
    Pixel = clamp(Pixel,1,512)
    PixelAll = Pixel^2
    
    WSRmode = Screen:entity():type() == "gmod_wire_socketradio"
    
    if (Pixel <= 128)
    {
        AllowAuto = 1
    }
    else
    {
        AllowAuto = 0
    }

    if(WSRmode)
    {
        Screen[WSRoffset + 1048574] = 1
        Screen[WSRoffset + 1048572] = Pixel
        Screen[WSRoffset + 1048573] = Pixel
        Screen[WSRoffset + 1048569] = 0
    }
    else
    {
        Screen[1048574] = 1
        Screen[1048572] = Pixel
        Screen[1048573] = Pixel
        Screen[1048569] = 0
    }
}

if(Reset & ~Reset)
{
    reset()
}

if (On & (Mem <= PixelAll | (AllowAuto & !NoAuto)))
{   
    runOnTick(1)

    Loops = 0

    if(AllowAuto & !NoAuto & Mem > PixelAll)
    {
        Mem = -1
    }

    while(Loops < 31*Speed & minquota() > 5000)
    {
        Loops++
        Mem++
        
        XView2 = clamp(XView,0.01,360)
        YView2 = clamp(YView,0.01,360)
        Distance2 = clamp(Distance,32,(2^15))
        
        X = (Mem % Pixel) * XView2 / Pixel - (XView2 / 2)
        Y = floor(Mem / Pixel) * YView2 / Pixel - (YView2 / 2)

        Ranger = rangerAngle(Distance2,X,Y):distance() / Distance2 * 255
    
        if(WSRmode)
        {
            Screen[WSRoffset + Mem] = Ranger
        }
        else
        {
            Screen[Mem] = Ranger
        }
    }
    Process = clamp((Mem / PixelAll) * 100,0,100)
}

[Schilcote]

You can't make digital scanner faster then about 62 pixel/tick (66.6 ticks/sec in gmod) (Thats about 4129 pixel/sec (about 4 times filling a 32x32 Screen(1024 pixels)) ).

I had made a simple one, with WSR Support:

You mean 4 FPS? Sounds good. I bet you could get more by using multiple E2s (or maybe gates...)

That chip is teh awesomeness. It's exactly what I need. It gets the aforementioned 4 FPS right? At what resolution?

[Grocel]

You mean 4 FPS? Sounds good. I bet you could get more by using multiple E2s (or maybe gates...)

That chip is teh awesomeness. It's exactly what I need. It gets the aforementioned 4 FPS right? At what resolution?

Yes 4 FPS at 32x32, at 16x16 it is 16 FPS. The chip can run about 10 times faster without lagging, but the screen is not fast enough, the screen uses the user-message-system that only can work till a certain amount of data per tick, when your chip makes more data then the screen not come after this, this will cause extreme lags. If you use it with the WSR the max FPS is half then you can use on a screen, because the WSR have to send it over the Internet to a another server/single-player-game.

The chip has a build-in ranger, because it's faster and more exactly the the normal ranger or even the hi-speed-ranger.
You can set resolution, FOV and max distance via wire inputs, the Process output says you how may percent of the scene is scanned (Useful for high resolution like 256x256 or 512x512).

[smellslike]

Damn, I always wondered why there weren't more scanner video cameras(that sort of deal) Could be useful for a number of things, instead of a simple rt camera you could have something that maps out terrain so you could fly or drive purely on instruments. Etc....

[N00bDud3]

I wish I knew an algorithm for implementing light into one of these scanners like Lutin did. I hope that you manage to succeed in adding light generation into your's, Dingo2.

[Tayg0]

I wish I knew an algorithm for implementing light into one of these scanners like Lutin did. I hope that you manage to succeed in adding light generation into your's, Dingo2.

It's actually incredibly easy.

[N00bDud3]

I'm gonna try when I get a chance to, but I have yet to even make a successful scanner.

[Schilcote]

Grocel, I can't get your scanner to work. No matter what I do, I just get a black screen.

I'll try the OP's scanner...