thomwolf / Magic-Sand

Magic-Sand is a software for operating an augmented reality sandbox
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Calibration and games text display questions #54

Open tachyonlabs opened 5 years ago

tachyonlabs commented 5 years ago

Hi! We built a sandbox installation running the original SARndbox software some years back, and last week I added a Windows drive and your software so we could dual boot to the different versions, and get rain/lava/etc. with the original, and the games and easier calibration with yours. Your software is great, but I have two questions:

First, after calibration, is it supposed to be saving the calibration settings, or is there a way to do that? With SARndbox the calibration gets saved so that we usually only have to do it again when the installation gets moved, but with Magic Sand we have to do it again every time the computer gets turned on/software gets started up.

Second, with the games, the text is displaying upside down from the point of view of people standing in front of the unit. Is there a way to change this? Selecting "DRAW FLIPPED" makes the animals go backward rather than changing where/how the text is drawn. Looking at your photo https://i.imgur.com/93gQ10f.jpg the difference between your setup and ours is that you have the Kinect kind of "upside down" compared to the projector, but ours has the same orientation for both. And looking on the SARndbox site, huh, theirs also has the orientation you're using. But as people dig around in the sand the topographical map displays correctly on ours with both SARndbox and Magic Sand, so now I'm confused ... :-)