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| Silver:
The IR sensor approach is easily the best. It's also how Namco do it in the recent "light gun" games (HOTD3 etc...) Its also fully customisable - make your own ideal guns and stick a detector on the front. The whole buttons/recoil thing is entirely seperate - nothing to do with light guns - and easily implimented. The "hard" part is indeed working out the pulsing/tracking through the sensors. Then a driver etc.... Andy of Ultimarc has posted before saying he is looking into this exact setup (Namco IR sensors). I hope he is successful as he already has the experience - I imagine the Cypress microcontollers he uses on the Optipac/Ipac are capable of pulsing the emitters and probably coding into basic X/Y data on chip. This would mean he could simply use the USB HID interface that the analogue inputs of the Optipac already use to send data to the PC. Please note all the above is speculation on my half - I was planning to look into this myself but stopped when a) I saw how much Sega charged for there "gun sense" boards which are clearly just 2 IR emitters each (and a tiny IC I think). b) Saw that Andy was looking into it. |
| RitchieTheBrit:
I second HOAGIE! Crap at stuff like that, but as long as there was international shipping, I think I ouwld be interested in buying one. As for the shell, wouldn't you be able to strip a Desert Eagle BB gun? They're damn big pistols, and two of them would look rather splendisimo! For those with a DC, BTW, Cybergun actually make one with recoil action, and it's not bad, either! More accurate than the MadCatz version, and it looks the dogs danglies! If anyones intersted I cou post a pics! |
| ErikRuud:
--- Quote from: tmasman on March 05, 2005, 04:17:11 pm ---The biggest issue I see right now is that the current solutions work by moving the mouse cursor... Howerver, you can't have 2 mouse cursors... So you wouldn't be able to track 2 guns this way... Perhaps you could figure out a way to make an analog device drive the inputs (like the T2 guns) then you could build a driver that sends similar inputs to track the 2 guns. --- End quote --- |
| tmasman:
--- Quote from: ErikRuud on March 07, 2005, 12:41:48 pm ---...Don't use IR leds with a USB camera. Use colored LED's. The driver could be setup to recognize different color leds. One gun could use blue led's and another could use red. You coud have even use more colors for more guns, but I don't think there is need for more than two. --- End quote --- That's not a bad idea, I was just thinking that actual light would get annoying... You'd see it's reflection off of your monitor or the glass in front of it. IR could be seen by the camera without being seen by the users. |
| 1UP:
The problem with this whole thing is Mame's cockeyed support of lightguns. |
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