southclaws / samp-bitmapper

For generating in-game coordinates from a bitmap.

Hi, I'm Barnaby Keene, also known as Southclaws.

Experienced with a wide variety of creative tools and technical skills, I like to solve design, storytelling and technical problems in digital media.

samp-bitmapper's Issues

API Design

So the primary goal of this plugin is not to simply read bitmaps and provide an API to access the pixel values. It's to facilitate things like this http://forum.sa-mp.com/showthread.php?t=516560 and the API should provide a simple and optimised way to do that leaving Pawn to do as little work as possible.

I'm thinking there should be the standard open and close functions that allocate and free a bitmap.

While it's in memory, the plugin should process the data in some way (off thread probably?) to build something akin to an index so picking pixels based on colour is fast. The kinds of images this plugin will work well with are flat images of the world map with very few colours (like on the link above). So I'm thinking of a pixel sorter style algorithm with buckets for each colour that map to XY coordinates.

Possible API:

• PointFromColour(int colour)
• PointsFromColour(int colour, int dest[], int max)

If these operations do turn out to be slow, I'm thinking of a streaming asynchronous API that uses Pawn callbacks when data is available:

• PointsFromColour(int colour, string callback)
  • which would call callback either for each pixel or a group of pixels of a predefined size

Still needs ironing out, feedback appreciated!

Bitmap library

Hual suggested this one: https://github.com/skywind3000/BasicBitmap