Wire Directional Radios!

[uuh52]

This should be added to a system that makes speech have a limited range, so you have to use radios to communicate long distances. Add the system to stargate (two-way radio transmissions through the open gate) and you have a very cool system.

[philxyz]

This should be added to a system that makes speech have a limited range, so you have to use radios to communicate long distances. Add the system to stargate (two-way radio transmissions through the open gate) and you have a very cool system.[/b]

For this, wiremod would need a feature to allow voice comms over wire (simulated) and only people near the wired voice speaker can hear the voices and only those near the mic can transmit to that wire (just a mapping of who can hear the sound would do) That way, the radio transparently appears to transmit voice

[-=Fox=-]

Ya know i think noise should be more of an after thought... lets get the system up and running before we introduce more fun features

On the noise though, someone could be transmitting the values of a random gate, that would be good noise.

Then we could implement some form of error correction (Via a Wire device) something like "normalization" or sending the bits 3 or 4 times or even some form of a simulated analogue connection like how dialup works .

But lets get the Radios up and working and lets play with Version 1.0 before we start adding more features, there may be some odd bug or something that needs to be tweaked first

Oh... any thoughts on a radio who's radiation pattern can be programmed (with constant values)?

[philxyz]

I agree, I'll keep going towards 1.0 then we can talk about some more advanced featuers. I've been uber busy this week but I'm still 100% committed to doing this so sorry about the temporary silence while I "clear my coding desk" as it were

[field_medic]

I was revisiting this topic and I couldn't help but think about radio directional finders. The best example of this is with a VOR where you tune into a frequency and the radio station sends you a specific course for your airplane to follow.

Expand that a little bit and make the on board navigational computer do all the hard work. Make a radio direction finder. Once it enters into an area with a strong radio signal, it gives you a bearing to the target and a frequency power. The job of the wire designer is to interpret that information to figure out the range. A smart player would put direction finders and use some geometry to figure where they intersect giving you a very accurate location of the radio.

This would give various contraptions something to home in on, and in the espionage arena it will give them some ammunition to work with.

[kevkev]

How far is this project i realy want these and this thread is not updated for a while

[philxyz]

I have now completed that patch for wine I was working on, so next I plan to complete the rest of the actual models this weekend.

I'll move onto the code straight after that.

Don't worry, this has not died in the slightest, the thread is just quiet

When something gets on my to-do list it never leaves until it's done.

[-=Fox=-]

I had a thought... with this wire setup we could actually see AM, FM & XM (type) radio systems....

AM is Amplitude Modulation ( I believe) and from what i understand it uses the concept of adjusting the Transmit power to send Data.

FM is Frequency Modulation were it adjusts the Frequency and differances in frequency (like power) can be used to send Data.

As for the XM type, its could be a single frequency where Digital Information is sent with power or frequency being constant.

With this setup it would be entirely possible to actually use all 3 types of Transmission capabilities... (for AM the Receiver would have to be able to output the Receive power of a current signal as it goes through frequencies)

Maybe if your really diabolical you could use all 3 (oh man...)

My new Motto, "Wire, creating possibilities."

[philxyz]

Hi guys,

Fox: at the moment, I'm working on the small drum antenna (as used by celluler towers for example).

I'm pretty sure I'm finalized on the features I'm going to add in this particular mod... If we want AM, FM then constantly vibrating the frequency may lag with this design and changing that part I think would be just beginning to leave the bounds of what I want to do.

I could go the full whack and base the entire thing on transverse and longitudinal electric fields with electromagnetic interference patterns and wave properties but I think that would be better for another mod if at all (maybe when I've got this one cracked.)

That is to say - I don't want to make this mod uber-complex because nobody will want to use it and it will cause lag. But I agree that more could be done - I theoretically could build a system that simulates electrostatics, magnetism and gravity and have it perform just as in real life including all the unexplained cool stuff... but maybe that's for another day when CPUs have >5GHz and my gmod lua skills are more fully up to scratch

[-=Fox=-]

Hi guys,

Fox: at the moment, I'm working on the small drum antenna (as used by celluler towers for example).[/b]

Shaweet!

I'm pretty sure I'm finalized on the features I'm going to add in this particular mod... If we want AM, FM then constantly vibrating the frequency may lag with this design and changing that part I think would be just beginning to leave the bounds of what I want to do.[/b]

Hold on there Tiger. If we can control the TX Power and the Frequency using Wire, then it can already be done!

My comment on the AM radio, the transmitter would need to be able to detect variations in power in a given frequency and the TX Antenna would need to be able to change its TX power. And if both of those options are available then yeah we can do AM (Type) radios. You would need to build a wire device to do the modulations.

However, if the feature of the detection of TX power is unavailable, or not planned to be released for v1.0, we can think about that later.

I could go the full whack and base the entire thing on transverse and longitudinal electric fields with electromagnetic interference patterns and wave properties but I think that would be better for another mod if at all (maybe when I've got this one cracked.)[/b]

That may be a bit much for most people, die hard fans of uber realism would clamor for something like this (like me) but for now i don't see this as something thats even remotely nessessary.

That is to say - I don't want to make this mod uber-complex because nobody will want to use it and it will cause lag. But I agree that more could be done - I theoretically could build a system that simulates electrostatics, magnetism and gravity and have it perform just as in real life including all the unexplained cool stuff... but maybe that's for another day when CPUs have >5GHz and my gmod lua skills are more fully up to scratch [/b]

I completely Agree

Keep up the Good Work!