Update for SPT 4.0.x. MASSIVE thank you to Kobe Thuy for converting this to the latest version.

This is a big release. Most of the mod has been rethought and rewritten:

• Shaders : I figured out how to use a compute shader to capture the image of the player that is used for light analysis. This allows me to use a larger image to analyze (32x32 from 8x8), and do it in a more performant way.

• Camera POV : Instead of having the camera randomly rotate around the player and take an average of the results, I now place the camera’s perspective on the closest bot’s head, directed towards the player’s thorax. This way I get a more authentic picture of the player’s light profile, which can also take pose into account (prone in grass).

• Update frequency : It is somewhat a handicap that I only use the closest bot’s perspective because at times this may lead to slightly skewed results, but I make this sacrifice to bring the update frequency down to the bare minimum: I have it set to one update per second by default. This makes the mod performant on, I presume, any system and you will have a hard time noticing any performance hit. And anyway, the closest bot is usually the one you’re most worried about, and if you are shooting back and forth chances are your position is already known (and most of the mod deals with time-to-identify).

• I have also added an option to run only the color breadth portion of the mod, which can actually function in tandem with That’s Lit as a sort of camouflage-only layer.

https://github.com/crm85/ombarella/releases/tag/0.4

~ NOTE ~ : I suggest turning off the light meter indicator after you have understood how the mod works. The reasons for this are that a) it can seem somewhat misleading sometimes, because it reads from the nearest bot and sometimes the angle of the perspective is unusual and gives weird results, and b) because you can kind of cheat with it once you get a feel for it. So for actual playing I would just turn it off and trust that it’s working. Also you won’t be looking at it the whole time. Obviously if you want to play with the settings turn it back on.

Small polish update, mainly fixed the pretty glaring bug that caused huge stutters if you changed the update rate.

Future plans:

It seems as if ThatsLit is finally being successfully adapted for 3.11. Being an essentially better mod than this one (at least at present), the utility of Omb is diminished.

Further, I’ve noticed that my mod really does have some bad stuttering, for those not using frame generation especially. A lot of the calculations accrete, bunch up inside single frames and cause stutters even if the fps is nominally fine. I haven’t been able to find a fix for this.

So this patch is an effort to just tidy up the mod as it is for whomever finds it useful because, ultimately, it does work.

What I am doing instead is researching using compute shaders, in an effort to do these calculations in the GPU rather than CPU. If I can figure that out, it will open completely new possibilities for what I can do.

For example, I would be really interested in focusing on camouflage analysis, in additional to the brightness analysis; this way, the mod could even work in tandem with TL, or, indeed, replace it for those who struggle with TL’s performance.

So until and unless I find a way to make use of compute shaders, I don’t foresee any further updates to the mod. (Possible exception would be a Fika plugin.) It’s there for those who can make use of it.

• Split texture analysis into two parts:
  • Focused the luminance analysis on the center part of the texture in effort to exclude environmental color info.
  • Added color breadth analysis, essentially camouflage analysis; however much the colors in the scanned texture are similar (ie you are blending with your environment), you get a buff.
• Changed color detection values slightly and added config entries to change them in real time.

Initial release.