Fast Image Recognition and Screen Limit

[ggripp]

Hi guys, i'm trying to create a macro to use in a game...

I'm having 2 problems...
1st> Is there any way to limit the area where the script will try to find the image? I want it to look for the image only in a specific 200x200 area on the center of my screen...

2nd> The image that i'm trying to find is a pretty fast animation... sometimes the animation runs 20 times before the macro successfully recognize the image and run the rest of the script... any way to make it better?

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Label>1
FindImagePos>C:\macro\fish.bmp,SCREEN,40,1,XArr,YArr,fish
If>fish>0
Press LCTRL
Send>z
Wait>1
Press LCTRL
Send>z
Release LCTRL
MouseMove>555,320
LClick
Wait>2
Endif
Goto>1

This is the image i'm using as parameter


and this is the animation.


Thanks in advance.
Srry about my terrible english.

[Marcus Tettmar]

Hi,

1) You can specify a window instead of SCREEN, or if you want a portion of the screen first use ScreenCapture to capture that portion to a BMP and then specify that BMP in FindImagePos.

2) No, not really.

[PepsiHog]

Hi ggripp,

A possible solution is to think about what is not there when the animation is. Invert what you are trying to do. Is there something else that only is true when the animation is there?

-or-

Use getpixelcolor. The little image in the center moves up and down slightly, but I bet there is at least one of those red pixels that stays red, no matter if the fish is up or down. In other words, the screen x,y is always red. You can also check for other pixels and their color.

Better yet, maybe look at a pixel that alternates between red and another color (like white at the bottom of the fish) This doesn't likely happen on any other image, in the exact same spot.

Good Luck, Hope I helped,
PepsiHog

[edit] - I pointed with my mouse at the white on the fish (white could be yellow) but the point my mouse pointed at was white when the animation was up, and red when the animation was down.

I will write an example script, but I can't do it right now.