Dec 16th 2009 UpText not working

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Originally Posted by anonymity

K, please don't bite my head off, because I am not masterfully knowledgeable in Freddy's code or the usage of uptext.

Yes, I understand how much time, patience, energy drinks, women, naps, bacon, and dedication this would take... however:

1. With the randomness... is is possible to qualitatively AND quantitatively 'record' the different types of text shades, styles, and ect?? - then take that and create a OCR algorithm to include all of the above. After that, make an include (or part of the algorithm ... whatever) to run through the different types of text that has been encountered before and generate a proper response to the text that it sees now...
- just a thought... it would very time consuming and often buggy...

2. Try a different vantage point... Take the text that SCAR sees and run that through a render... then have SCAR recognize the pattern and associate it with letters, and build what it says on its own. ... and go from there..
- just another thought..

Best wishes with getting whatever you are working on done Freddy.
From all of us, for all of us...

1. The possible combinations are way to large to bother. Plus, it changes with background colours so depending where you are on RS, your camera angle and so on the variables change. Basically this idea is a less-accurate way of using bitmaps but making a library of every possible letter-overlapping combination at every possible place in RS first, instead of making them as you need them for your script.

2. Yup, thats the current method. The image of the text is manipulated and filtered greatly, removing all the random effects and tricks Jagex play on us basically by recognising patterns, until it is in a standardised form SCAR can recognise and assign to the letter it is.

The problem is, the filtering algorithms and such cannot handle the current uptext. Good train of thought