Right, understood, I was just remembering how good I had it in X3 with being able to manually control slaved drone ships in ajacent systems using a window feed for seeing things and controlling them like I was really there. Oh well, perhaps some day.

Unfortunately that has nothing to do with reality right now, you can't rasterize camera feeds (and you won't be able for a long time as I know the engine), and the details of this screen will be way lower than the amount you need. This text is the very beginning...

If I were going to ask for a project priority with what you are doing here, it would be to provide a means of monitoring security cameras without having to be seated at a console not doing anything. I guess that won't really work without upgrades to the HUD that enable recieving video feeds in game though.

Yeah, I like video games but just don't have the focus for programming, so more power to those that do!

@Reptavian
I'm a student and my hobby is programming. I don't work for anyone currently... however, if you want to see those videos, I can try something. It will be 1-bit, 1 FPS, and very, very pixelated, but still motion picture. We just need to use those numbers a little bit better, I even started thinking on the structure while writing this comment. But currently I have so many projects... I'm on Ubuntu at the moment, my #1 OS where I make those images and stuff, setting up the Syndicate itself. In SE there are three projects running: the first track of a hovercart racing series, a target practice drone (it's already capable for target practice, I'm just trying to tell them how to don't exit the zone), and this screen. I've made a billboard script (rolling letters, very easy fork of that) and a working (and accurate) stopwatch for the speedway - I want to release them together. Sneak peek here [imgur.com], and sorry, both is outdated...

@The Witch
Sorry, there is no way to stream video from YouTube. I wish there was, but network is not permitted in ingame scriping to avoid viruses that attack your computer. But using our own format (it doesn't even need to be compressed) will enable us to exchange and stream videos between ships as soon as a decent antenna API arrives. Also, thank you all for the inspiration, I just gave a higher priority to that project.

@swiedrick
Yeah, I know my mistake. In my defense it was not planned. Originally I've just tried to turn lights on and off with some tricks, then display a letter, then another, etc... and look, there's something that may interest people, so I uploaded it at technically Friday, then the tiles a few hours later. That's it, I had no time to decide a proper name, and it's technically a raster display despite it's limited letters right now.

not to come off negative in any way, you have mistaken the name for the type of display. with the configuration of points of light to make an image as it is shown in your screen shots this is actually an LED display. LED = Light Emitting Diode. andLCD (Liquid Crystal Display) is what most screens are made of e.g TVs, smartphones, computer moniters. I am in no way trying to take away your accomplishment though! it is an ingenius idea, just wanted to clear upa slight naming mistake. but please keep up the good work. I for one suck at coding and am avoiding that aspect of the game

Garry's Mod also has in game streaming of youtube and other video sites, I can see this being worked in at some point by someone here in SE :) Would be very cool while cruising along waiting to get to your next spot etc etc.

Good lord, I read that stuff about your plans to play video on this and just sat for a moment in stunned silence. Just what do you do for work super genius?

lol, hello world

that takes me back

Red, green, and blue... yes, as soon as the devs implement something about this, I'll be here and improve this display a little bit...

Well... Lets just say you could use the lights like an LCD display .
so just use blue red and yellow (i think) lights then you could achieve this , providing you are far enough .
colorchanging would be better though ;)

It's not yet possible to change the color of the lights with the current ingame scripting API, so we could only play 1 bit video right now. And since the namescape is limited, we can't connect to internet, therefore we can't watch YouTube on it. I think we will be able to convert videos and play it on this thing, but now it just wouldn't worth it. As soon as we get better control to the lights I will do something about it... (streaming video between ships, that's the plan, but we'll also need proper antenna control)

LCD... Display... ;)

would be cool to be able to watch youtube or other stuff on a tv panel related to the game while ur ship is drifting infitely. i think grand theft auto IV had something like that that i thought was cool... but would be awesome if we could do something like that perhaps by turning the panel into an external browser or something?

Since the lights are RGB, would it be feasible to display (low resolution) video on it? I guess one problem to solve with this is how to store the video data.

Really great mod, love it!