mounting it to a plane

can this be used for tanks

@Maniac this is exactly the reason I've added front clip or clip start or minimal distance. Depth is 400? 410 for end clip and 380 for start clip and you can look at the seaflor with great detail. Set it like 399 start 401 end and you'd have perfect tool for finding penies

Hi
do you think there is a way to increase the contrast of depth ? trying to notice a meter-high object at 400 meters is basically impossible

@Femboy ah yeah mirroring will mess directions up

@higi The problem was the fact that some of the lasers were mirrored. I disabled mirroring mode, replaced them, and then it worked great.

@Femboy assuming you wired everything correctly, this can only occure if your laser array is smaller than what set in the controller itself. Check "number of sensors X, Y"

There seems to be a problem. I am 99% sure I hooked it up and set up the MC properly, but the whole thing aims off to the left for some reason. I'd have to twist the whole assembly like 45 degrees for it to scan what's in front of my submarine.

sure this is great but can't get anyithing more than a straight horizontal line on there

@mark-bench most of the features can be made as a separate overlay very easily, like touch screen or some data out, camera radar whatever you will

Automatic range have some problems: It's really computationally expensive and doesn't really work well in some situations, like imagine looking at something far and a random "particle" flies right in front of the scanner, making colors freak out

Shifting scan area is hard due to float nature. It just brakes alignment 'cuz of weird remainders like 0.00235676532 etc. when you try move it really small step

Getting rid of distortion doesn't make much sense bc regular camera has same amount of it, plus it would mess with line/stroke which I don't even want to bother any longer now that it works XD

This is a great and super useful example. Thank you so much!
Using nine of the mcs with an x and/or y offset for a 12x12 sensor array gives a really nice resolution. Some featueres i would love to implement or see implement by you or someone else:
-Automatic range/contrast adjustment
-Min & max distance output to display on another screen as a legend
-Option to change the scanning direction at higher zoom factors
-Make an overlay with a camera (needs to be time and maybe weather dependent for good overlay visibility)
-Combine with a radar to track targets for better positional info on it than reworked radar gives or with deprecated radar even a completly stabilised imaghe of the target.
-Add a stabiliser (needed for moving ships)
-Make a version that scanns even slower but fills the 9x5 monitor at full resolution
-Target detection (aircraft, ships, fish)
-Option to correct spherical distortion (useful when scanning seafloor at low zoom factor)

@Ojb008 I mean duh, just use constant number

Is there a way I can use it without having to constantly change distance input

had this idea with the missile radar once but the scan time was way too long

Same with using multiple mc to compress everything in composite, or using multiple lua boxes it all adds to the delay

@Erzbengel Raziel yes, but that would mess with the delay

I truly got mesmerized by your lidar and I'm heading to use it on one of my new creations. Your work spend was worth the effort! Thx for your contribution!

You could compress a few of the numbers inputs into a composite input, that would allow you ~30 sensors or additional controls, no?

this is a really interesting proof of concept, ive been wanting to make something like this but it hasnt really been possible until the gimble feature was added.

@Corporal Simmons there are a few limits, delay, mc size, channel count. I could talk about it more in the discord, if you're really interested in the details, there's actually a lot going on

@williefili Uhhh, my bad I didn't get the joke!

Whats the limit for the detail you can get with this LIDAR?
Can it be bigger than 4x4? Or are gimbal limits the restriction?

i uhh... was making a joke to the way the image icon looks like and if you pointed it at a plane it would blind it

@williefili, I'm sorry that I hasn't been able to overcome game limitations and make 4k 60fps lidar that can scan 360* from one sensor with basic logic gates

@Erzbengel Raziel not really as I'm out of space for in/outs in mc. I'm working on making it automatic

sees the icon, lidar? more like BLINDAR

nice

scanner sombre says cease & desist XD, excellent WS creation

would it be possible to get a min_range input, to be able to get tghe full dynamic range for a smaller area far away?

Could you possibly make an example vehicle for this? Thank you.

cool stuff

Vader8513@ yes!

Does this work undwater as well, by chance?

I am delighted