Software Release - Automapper 3.2!

Alright, I know I've mentioned before on here that I do programming in my spare time. This is the logical conclusion of that! Here's the official blurb:

Automapper 3.2 is a fully-featured app designed by salvagers, for salvagers. Using your omnitool's passive sensors, Automapper 3.2 creates a three-dimensional visual image of your surroundings in real time, with no appreciable drain on the power supply! What's more, Automapper 3.2 includes an advanced drone interface, letting you wirelessly sync a drone's readings to your device and providing the fullest dataset on the market! As if that's not enough, Automapper 3.2 can also wirelessly access over three hundred public databases and download schematics for comparison or reference purposes, and of course any private database you have authorization for! Automapper 3.2 also includes fully-featured speech-to-text and an optional transcription function beta, recording in writing what your device picks up! Leave Automapper 3.2 running in the background while snapping photographs or recording video with any standard or customized omnitool or hardsuit camera and it automatically ties to the location on the Automapper model! With a fully customizable GUI and the ability to add notations to specific locations or to schematics as a whole, Automapper 3.2 provides a level of functionality never before seen in a single product!

There's a full feature list on the site, as well as a download link. The blurb doesn't get across very well that you can actually have any number of devices syncing up at once, which so far as I know is totally unique to this app. The transcription feature is unique too, though it's strictly a beta right now.

Anyways, questions, comments, suggestions? It does basically everything I need it to now, but I'm always open to adding more functionality.

Oh, and before you ask, yes, there's a small charge for the app (but it's very reasonable compared to any similar product, mostly because I did this by myself and don't have to pay a team) and no, I can't do discounts. That said, if you suggest a feature that I end up implementing, I can send you a one-time free product download key.

Edit: Oh, I might as well include links to my other products:
Drone Power Optimization 7.1
Omnitool Power Optimization 6.4
Drone Sensor Interpretation Suite 4
Kinetic Barrier Optimization 34.8

I might as well open up questions and so on for those as well, though aside from the DSOS none of them are on a scale anything like Automapper. All of them work beautifully in conjunction, and so far as I know there are no conflicts with any major products, but feel free to report anything you come across.

I might take this software for a stroll down the streets of the Citadel. How well does it handle crowded areas, or is it optimized for abandoned places that scavengers would hang out?

It can distinguish organic and/or moving objects from debris and the like, so it works fine in crowded places. The transcription aspect does sometimes misinterpret things like mechs for structural features, but that's easy enough to fix manually since it makes a 3D virtual model anyways.

okay, to be honest i'm actually wary as fuck about downloading any software from this site. So I'm just going to go ahead and ask. Is there any fucking spyware on this thing?

You can check yourself - the download's not hosted on this site. The one that is hosting it is reputable, but feel free to run a full scan.

Man. What a sloppy piece of programming. Where did you get your instruction from, a mail-in college from the back of a tube of nutripaste? Jeez, you've got junk code and patches everywhere in there - and that's one HELL of an unnecessary logarithm on line 445. Jeez, how much memory is being eaten up just to run that line? Uuuuuugh, trim it, man, trim it.

Yeah, I expected a few responses like this - that logarithm in particular looks unnecessary but it sets up a lot of calls for later. As for my instruction... I'm quarian. I do things a little differently, but you can't argue with results - give the app a try, it should work exactly as advertised.

I'm downloading it, but I promise you

Nothing

I just tested it in the ducts and it puked an error.

I took a two hour trek into the foundations to try it there and it puked out another error.

Congrats, you just killed any possible chance at a citadel userbase.

GO BACK TO CODING SCHOOL.

Yeah that's uh, that's super helpful. How about posting the error log so I can actually see the problem?

Interesting! I worked quite a bit with drones recently, can you tell me more about the Sensor Interpretation Suite? (the PO is self explanatory) Does it work with any drones? I use Ariake and an older Armax.

Oh, sure!

It's pretty simple really - drone sensors turn out all kinds of junk data. It's a mix of things they only partially pick up and things they're programmed to ignore, for the most part, like background radiation and so on. Thing is, just because they're passed over by a standard sensor suite doesn't mean there's nothing there, and the DSIS applies a bunch of custom algorithms to sift through that junk data in real-time and identify things that would normally be missed completely. The end result is that your drone can pick up disguised transmissions that bury themselves in the background noise, spot cloaked people or objects with much more reliability, pick up spikes of radiation and so on earlier because they happen across the wavelengths... Little stuff like that.

It works with any drone, but the effectiveness depends on the quality of sensors on the drone to begin with, to some extent. You'll always see improvement, but with high-end stuff it won't be as dramatic.

Would your drone software be any good for medical drones? The ones most merc companies would use for stuff like in-depth medical scans in the field? My outfit's been meaning to expand our inventory a little, and some reliable software would let us make the most of the hardware we're looking at.

Also, gotta say, I'm loving your KB Optimization app. Just throwing that out there. Other mercs and soldiers that may be reading this - buy it.

I must admit I am intrigued by this, though not quite for it's original use. Then again there are those who accuse archaeologists of being nothing more than scavengers and grave robbers. I intend to download it and give it a trial run as soon as I have a working omnitool again. If it works then perhaps the drone programs will also be of use to me. I really should use drones more often, less personal hazard and they fit in smaller spaces.

Hm, that sounds just like what that old Armax could need. Isn't it funny how you can get so used to older tech once you have taken it apart and assembled it numerous times? Of course I have a brand new drone too but I still like the Armax because it was the one I developed a lot of stuff on it for the first time.
Do you have free trial versions or any sort of money back arrangement should it not be sufficient? My applications are bit unusual so I'd like to test something.

Apologies for the delayed reply, I've been hard at work on the next version - at Seeking_Rakhana's suggestion it now includes an optional plug-in for archaeological databases using modern translator software as a bridge.


This is actually a really good question. The Sensor Interpretation Suite might prove useful, in that it basically just provides more information than standard, but it's not going to be comparable to a full-on medical scanner. I'm not at all sure how it would interact with the input from an actual medical scanner. If you want to give it a shot and send me the datalog, I'd appreciate it - there might be something I can do with it to make it more helpful. Or it might work wonderfully as-is. I'm really not sure. Hmmmm.

I haven't had a chance to properly field test this yet but I did run a few simulation digs both through my omnitool and in a holo-lab (think combat simulation arena but with a somewhat more scientific focus). And it seems to work well for local mapping. The translation isn't perfect with dead or unknown languages but it gets close enough to tell the difference between "Pull lever to kill monster" and "Pull lever to release monster". It did get a bit larger than most programs I like to keep on my omnitool but it was easy enough to swap out ship and salvage schematics for more archaic architectural blueprints. I look forward to trying it out next time I am stuck in some ancient crypt.