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Utilities Snap Photo Kit - Smart Camera Utility

Discussion in 'Tools In Progress' started by Kellyrayj, May 19, 2022.

  1. Kellyrayj

    Kellyrayj

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    Hey friends,

    I'm nearly done with a smart image capture system (think Pokemon Snap). I'm calling it Snap Photo Kit.

    Screen Shot 2022-05-19 at 12.37.31 AM.png

    Planned release features:
    • quick drag and drop components that take just a few seconds to set up
    • smart photo details like distance, facing direction, size in the screen, pose tags
    • examples for how to score photos based on photo details
    • camera roll to review the photos you've taken and what details are in the objects
    Screen Shot 2022-05-19 at 12.43.18 AM.png

    What I'd love to hear is other desired features. The demo is nearly there and will come sometime in the next week.
     
    Kellyrayj, May 19, 2022
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  2. UnityTestingFrostPixel

    UnityTestingFrostPixel

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    The thread might be dead but... is there any update on this @Kellyrayj ? Would love to see it and play with it! :D
     
    UnityTestingFrostPixel, Mar 22, 2023
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  3. Kellyrayj

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    Hi friend! Not completely dead! I was gobbled up into the industry and haven't gone through the process to get this outside work approved! If I get a itch to complete it, I'll post here again.
     
    Kellyrayj, Mar 23, 2023
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  4. UnityTestingFrostPixel

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    Thanks for the reply! I'd love to know the process/theory behind how you are identifying the "animals" in the picture and how they get scored :)
     
    UnityTestingFrostPixel, Mar 23, 2023
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  5. Kellyrayj

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    Just a bunch of clever ray-casting and some performance tricks! The main items that you are looking for are just in a predetermined list. The rest is just a scatter of checks.
     
    Kellyrayj, Mar 26, 2023
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  6. UnityTestingFrostPixel

    UnityTestingFrostPixel

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    Ah, that's clever. I'm trying to build my own system for my game, and having an infinite amount of trouble with (for example) raycasting when an animal is say, behind some grass - grass typically won't have colliders.

    The only real way I've managed so far to get anything like a prototype working is to have a 2nd camera that renders to a render texture and perform a render pass so that anything on the Animal Layer get's drawn in a solid block color that a system (which I havent wrote yet) will pick up and do some scoring and identifying based on the unique color of the animal.

    It's always super interesting to see different approaches! Regardless I can't wait to see what you come up with in your final product - if I can integrate it into my project I'd definitely go that route as I'm currently spaghetti coding :D
     
    UnityTestingFrostPixel, Mar 26, 2023
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