Advanced Pixel Search Library

[UnitedStatesian]

After extensively tinkering, it looks like the code

FFsnapshot(500,500,560,501)

$testVariable = FFNearestSpot(1,1,500,500,0xaaaaaa,45,0)

roughly duplicates the native pixelsearch(500,500,560,500,0xaaaaa,45).  I haven't tested it yet extensively to see if it always returns the same results.  Another solution is to populate every possibly encountered shade variation that would otherwise be captured by the "45" shade variation parameter with

FFaddcolor(0xaaaaaa)
FFaddcolor(0xaaaaab)
FFaddcolor(0xaaaaac)
FFaddcolor(0xaaaaad)...

FFsnapshot(500,560,500,501)

$testVariable = FFNearestPixel(500,560,-1,0)

although this last method may obviously fall short where the target pixel can take on many different shades.  I also don't know if the apparent minimum 2-pixel wide search rectangle that FFNearestSpot and FFNearestPixel force you to use will always return exactly the same result as the 1-pixel-wide search line that is possible to use with the native pixel search.   

 

Edit:  The problem with doing this is that if you need to search multiple areas of the screen then FFsnapshot needs to be called every single time.  While faster, this is only about a 2x speed improvement over the native pixel search.  I've figured out a workaround, but it will take a lengthy although no where near complete rewrite of my program.  It would still be cool if anyone knows of a way to replicate the native Pixelsearch() while maintaining the 40x or so max speed increase that FFNearestSpot can deliver.  
 

 

Edited May 7 by UnitedStatesian