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AppGameKit Classic Chat / [Source] AGK V1 + V2 Point Command (Color Extractor)

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Posted: 15th Sep 2014 03:33 Edited at: 15th Sep 2014 03:34
I just shared this code in the V2 Development Blog thread in response to Santman asking if such a feature existed, but figure it could be useful to anyone who isn't monitoring that thread as the topic has come up in the past.

There isn't a native command for this capability (Lee originally said it was omitted due to mobile performance reasons when AppGameKit was young) but with memblocks it becomes easy to integrate such functionality yourself. Here is a function that does just that. It is fast enough to be called each frame and run full speed on the devices I tested, but could slow down depending on your requirements (i.e., if you need to call it for many different coords each frame). Essentially it grabs an image at the specified coordinates, converts it to a memblock and then extracts the color value and returns it to you for further processing.

Instructions: Copy the functions below to your app.

Usage: colorVal = Point(x, y, returnType)

x, y: The coordinate that you wish to extract the color value from.

returnType: 0 = raw integer value, 1/2/3/4 = Red/Green/Blue/Alpha component value

If using '0' as the return type to get the full RGBA value, you can then extract the RGBA components manually using the GetColorR[G/B/A]() functions provided. AppGameKit V2 includes GetColorRed[Green/Blue] natively as well, but these functions I've included ensure compatibility with V1 and support easy alpha extraction.

Attached also is a full working example.

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mr_d
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Posted: 16th Sep 2014 14:03
nice, and thanks for sharing.
do you know if it would be possible (and if so how difficult if so) it would be to use this to do a sort of face recognition on a photo?

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