This message is specially for SILVER.
Hey,Silver: I tough is better to ask it here than in a PM
Have you got a "SCORPION 3"??.......I Would like to ask you a Mini-comparasion here.... Has "LCD TOP GUN" the same tracking and accuracy than a "SCORPION 3" with a White screen/Backgroud/colour ?
P.S. I saw your T2 Video...it was Flawlesly
Well before I answer that I will remind you that I was using the Scorpion3's through the sync-converter chip so that I could use them on a pc monitor - this may have had an impact on their accuracy....
To be honest when comparing on a completely white screen (eg WinGun's calibration screen) there is not a huge amount in it. The guncon2's tracked pretty well when the screen was bright. There is also jitter on both, although I have less jitter on the LCD gun.
Overall though, the LCD gun is more accurate (as well as always tracking). It is noticeable in a game where occaisonally with the Guncons I would find that the odd shot would be obviously way out. With the LCD guns I find everything spot on (once calibrated). As a a dirt-cheap hack though, there is nothing wrong with using a couple of guncon's - they are fine for playing pointblank/area51 if you are using a CRT. (You can pick up a guncon for peanuts).
NB Jitter. Don't have the guns hooked up today, but I've used them with WinGin. Can anybody who has used the old (working) EMS Gun2Mouse program confirm that the mouse pointer jitters when you control it? It's just occured to me that you should be able to eliminate jitter if the accuracy claim of the LCD gun is true. I think WinGun is coded to attempt to reduce jitter so may actually be not helping the situation. Jitter would typically be caused by the rather small error margin there is when calculating a position based on the speed of a screen and line draw by the VGA card compared to a response from the gun (I think).
Seeing as there is no VGA calculation involved, I was thinking that (hopefully) the LCD gun system would report a pretty constant location if it was held very still (on a tripod). This is completley irrlevant to actual use as they are accurate enough, but I was curious.