LIDAR - A New Way to See! (...is someone there?)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 มิ.ย. 2022
- LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) is a gamemode for Garry's Mod which completely replaces traditional sight. Instead, we're given a tool for painting dots, slowly revealing our environment as we explore. It's a lot of fun to play around with, although it can be a little spooky wandering about alone in the dark...
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Once you spot the "Redman" the color red (which happens to be used for meat or flesh) is actually removed from the scanner spectrum which turns him into a shadow
So these entities have flesh but when they get touched by these light layers there whole existence gets erased? Idk just a idea of mine... since the shadows left behind remind me of silhouettes after a nuke went off and they get vaporized while leaving a imprint on the wall behind them...
@@junkoenoshima6756 text from terminal after first time scanning redman:
"unrecognized sufrace material, saving"
"error saving new material, ignoring"
@@surytrap hay, I said that's just a idea.
@@junkoenoshima6756 fair enough
oh god.. this comment left chills down my spine. now im imagining what the map would look like if the gun made textures...
A horror game called "Scanner Sombre" did this exact thing, and it was super cool. It used LIDAR to replace Regular Sight as you explored the depths of this abandoned mine, but you may not enjoy what you find dwelling in the dark depths...
I really hope he plays that, seems like SUCH a cool idea
I remember watching gameplay of it years ago
I absolutely love that game!
I really like that game, it has some cool vibes, and it's the best video game cave I've ever been in
Sadly if I remember correctly Scanner Sombre sold pretty poorly
its nto a horror game
if you look at the console that pops up when you see a red figure, it seems less like the static is coming from the thing itself and more like it's coming from the device you're using to scan and see. it seems to be unable to - or it refuses to - render whatever texture is on the model. that's why it shows up so much as silhouettes, because in the fiction there's no texture for the dots to get color from
It tried to catalogue the redman's material but it failed and as such ignored him in future hence the shadow
So,it's a ghost?
Maybe it's referencing "Color Out of Space" or something? Looks really cool and absolutely terrifying though.
So it's an error texture or something?
its called the stalker im pretty sure
16:43 the fear in his voice when the stalker was still there after he beamed him sounded so real thats how you know a mod is doing good
That was my favorite part !!!!!!! I was in awe
Got goosebumps and I had to sit up in bed. 7/7 spooked
It scared the heck out of me too.
23:27 is when we can REALLY see he got scared lol 😂
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Lidar is actually what many robots use to detect its enviroment. Quite cool to see what most robots see in a format we can comprehend
thats so interesting
Yes, the most funny thing that they see us like in lidar mod, so thats real-life horror for robots (if they had feelings and etc)
Well they always scan, not like once per two lifetimes of universe
Except it is way faster, constant, and consistent. It's essentially "real time". That, and most of the time the have LIDAR and normal camera sensors.
@Vladimir Novitski No. LiDAR projects infrared dots to detect the shape of the environment. Obviously your eyes do not do that, they just absorb light going into your retinas.
If you press ctrl+c while it's "rebooting", you get to see the map normally.
The maps, when playing with LIDAR, *appear* inverted
Only maps with a navmesh work
If you press tab, there's someone in your server (even in singleplayer)
Players are also red. During the reboot, it says "Unrecognised surface material, saving", "Error saving new material, ignoring". From this point on, what WOULD be the red man, is now showing up as shadows, this includes players, as they use the same "surface material"
Im glad you mentioned the map was inverted, I thought I was going crazy for a second there
@@hyperventalated same. Was wondering why is seemed like the bridge was in the wrong place
I remember from a comment on another video about this that it actually just flips your view or something like that. Mirror-images it? What I know is that map isn’t being changed, but the player’s view is.
@@joshuahilliker2364 it's either the map being inverted, or the view of the player is, either way, the map appears inverted
The rendered image is mirrored and horizontal movement (CUserCmd sidemove and mouse) is essentially flipped. The mode does do some things to the map, but it's only npc and soundscape removal.
Engineer here. Lidar sensors work by essentially shooting out a laser to get a distance measurement. By shining out lots of them (or in practice shining one laser but moving it really rapidly and keeping track of where it's pointed) you can create a distance map of the surrounding environment. This technique is used a lot in robotics to give them information about their surroundings, so in a sense this lets you see the world as a robot would see it! Which is a super cool concept to me from a horror perspective, how robots might see the world and the uncanny alien structures they interpret from the world around them with the absolute bare minimum sensory information we humans gave it to perform its function.
Engineer gaming
Mad respect on you mate, I just learned something new that I never would have learned or even heard about outside of something like this. I tip my hat to you.
nice dragon pfp :3
Idk how much you know about this stuff, but I wanted to add to your explanation. On moving robots, that distance map is created by taking multiple scans, finding similar points within each scan, then stitching all of the scans together at those points. Usually velocity/acceleration data is also used to approximate the movement of the scanner between scans, which helps with the stitching process. What’s even cooler is you can then use that distance map, plus new scans of the environment and motion data, to allow the robot to figure out where it is within the distance map. This is how robots can figure out where they are in their environment and navigate autonomously. The distance map can also be updated using new scans to account for changes in the environment, like moving obstacles. This whole process is called “SLAM navigation” btw. Sorry if I’m getting into the weeds here, but I spent a year working with LiDAR and navigation algorithms to develop an autonomous vehicle, and I find this stuff super interesting.
Also, most of the newer iPhones have a solid-state LiDAR array on both the front and back. If you have an iPhone with FaceID or the big camera array with the small grey circle in the corner, you can do this stuff with your phone
@@guyguy463 That's so cool!!! I've spent the last year working on a research project where we developed and tested a new process to create, somewhat, synthetic data (synthetic point clouds + labels) to improve the quality of data used to train object detection models, for autonomous driving. This is a very interesting field of study, but god it is hard... data segmentation for point clouds (captured by LiDARs) is a HUUUUGE pain in the ass. At least I think that BOSCH is working on a new type of LiDAR that can help solve this, but until then, many people will have nightmares that look just like this game ahaha.
Sighting Timestamps:
6:40 - "Redman"
11:40 - "Glitch 1"
13:05 - Shadow 3
13:59 - Shadow 4
15:28 - Shadow 5
16:05 - Shadow 6
16:34 - "Stubborn Shadow"
17:46 - Shadow 8
19:40 - "Glitch 2"
20:55 - Shadow 10
23:26 - "Redman 2"
24:14 - "Glitch 3"
(Note: Some are called "Glitch" because the Shadows cannot be seen or is hard to see in video)
《Last Edited: 8:43 PM, 6/8/22》
23:27 "Redman 2"
Seems like the "Redman" shows up before the "loading screen" interesting
I’d like to say the red man is the trigger for the main creepy events on the map to take place, considering he is the first encounter before all the weird stuff happens
at 24:14, there's a faint shadow, so it isn't a glitch.
he covers it up fairly quickly, but it's there.
I’m terrified to know what “stubborn shadow” means
so basically this is scanner sombre but in gmod
Oh shit it's my favourite memer watching my favourite gmod youtuber
Holy fuck, kmlkmljkl! Didn't expect you to be here in the comment section.
Legend
And its actually scary
holy shit you are here too? you are an absolute legend.
17:19 I would be angry too if a man just walked up to me and started shining a laser into my eyes.
The entity is just hanging around in its natural habitat and some losers show up shooting lasers everywhere including at him, ofc he's angry.
LiDAR theory:
WE are the bad guys.
@@FrauleinMuller999 The official story of this mod is that your eyeballs have been replaced with a device that feeds your brain data from the scanner gun, treating blindness. The one you've been implanted with is unfinished and malfunctions as it displays things that aren't really there, AKA the entity. When it tries to save the material of this nonexistent entity, it freaks out and deletes the texture entirely. It's a series of strange events supposed to spook you I guess.
I much prefer the theory that the red man is just a normal guy who thought you were the weird entity shining lasers everywhere and punched you in the face, breaking the device and resulting in all the weird glitches.
@@nts0n I thought the entity was a regular person and the machine tried to save the texture of the person then went "shit idfk" and decided to ignore it
@@nts0n the question now is why you were stuck in an empty area with some dude and couldn't just yell "Hey I'm blind please don't be annoyed by the lasers"
@@plasticballs they could be infrared lasers, invisible to humans.
I don't know why, but the realization when he said "You're still there" when the shadow didn't go away legitimately terrified me
Genuine fear in his voice
Same!
imagine it secretly being multiplayer and the shadow is just another player you paired up with, but both of you can only see your own dots.
that was actually my idea for a good horror videogame
If you press tab when using this mod, It says there is.
There is an ai on the map, walking around, it caused the red/shadows
@@badlanding0529holy shit that’s scary
Kinda like the hidden mingebag lobbies for Contruct 13 beta? Construct 13 beta has an additional addon that lets you load into the mingebag servers and interact with players in real time while you’re connected. You can see them and they can see you, but you’re both mingebags. Of course, being Construct 13 beta, all of this is hidden from the player, and in fact the mingebags being players and not prerecorded is never disclosed, and given that the layout of the map at least somewhat constant (it’s Contruct 13 beta, which itself is a part of a sandbox game), you would assume that they’re not players.
Your commentary of this mode makes LIDAR seem less like a conventional laser scanning system and more like a forbidden inter-dimensional device capable of visualizing things mankind wasn't supposed to see. And granted, the gamemode itself is certainly lending to that idea.
Look up vietnam and America's attempts at nightvision
@@johnroyal4054 Don't know what I am supposed to be looking for but ok.
@@AmericanIdiot7659 project stargaze is the name i think. Google has burried a lot of stuff on it. Basically army used infrared before the green vision you get now and quickly canceled it as many people reported seeing demons all around them.
@@johnroyal4054 What? Now that is interesting, i'll check it out thanks.
so that's why my roomba randomly moves as if something's in it's way
Redman and shadow is the same thing. First time when you scan it, it's glowing red because it's an unknown material for scanner. You can see in console readout that it finds new material (flesh, supposedly), but fails to save it and ignores, hence afterwards you can only see its outlines on a scanned area. And the glitchy sound is made by the lidar scanner when it encounters the ignored material.
that honestly makes it scarier in a way
The machine refusing to remember the entity’s texture is dope and scary af
I thought it was just vaporizing the man
what if redguy was actually just. a regular ass guy wandering the area. and you're a robot with an error that makes it so you can't recognize flesh
I'd like to note, as far as im aware, you can only 'catch' your new friend in the sweep-scan, after you catch them in the big scan you can see them with the focused scan
I’m confused why it’s a shadow wouldn’t the dots just project onto the man? Or does the LiDAR just glitch out and not project because it’s a mysterious entity ?
@@HillBilly_Urbex The first time you scan the entity, it's initially red. The gun you use tries to save this material but fails so it just ignores the texture all together which is why all you see is the outline of where the entity was stood. Technically there's always dots on the entity when you scan it, you just can't see them because there's no texture for it.
@@CannedPsycho- oh thank you :D
And that only makes it scarier when you shoot your focused beam at it and it stays there. Like at 16:39
after playing around with it a bit I think its actually just that it only spawns the stalker in after a certain number of sweep scans, around 20 something. If you turn off blindness even if you look directly at it it doesn't trigger the cutscene and the stalker just disappears after a minute or so. I wonder why. I kept trying to find out how it spawned it in, whether it was there and walking around but I guess they're just spawning in the model since it doesn't move or animate.
"I wonder if this mirror still reflects me" has such a powerful feeling to it, a line you would never expect to even think of, but certainly evokes a feeling of dread and anxiety.
It's my favorite line of this video, and fittingly ends the video in an equally beautiful sense as well.
Hey, I remember the game that inspired this mod! (At least, I believe it did based on the colours and sounds) It's a short exploration game deep inside a cave where you have to map out your environment using a device just like this and slowly piecing together a story. Give it a chance! The game is Scanner Sombre
I still remember the splashing sounds of someone following us in flooded caverns... That part nearly gave me a heart attack back in a day.
@@mistakesregretsandimperfec7740 I remembered that game aswell, and saw it was on sale a while back. Bought it, realised I could play it in VR...
Regret
Hey hey, Game's called "Scanner Sombre", Go relive your nightmares.
Librarian should totally play it in vr. I haven't played it since it came out so it would be really cool to se it in a new form.
Freakin' knew there was a game about this
LiDAR is such a weird concept to me because it's basically just that one weird misconception about normal vision you had when you were six where the light shoots out of your eyes and bounces off things and comes back.
Except it's lasers.
thinking about light retracting off of things to make a image makes me feel blind yet also not blind for some reason...
I remember reading that ancient Greeks thought that our eyes have thousands of invisible tentacles that grab everything around and that is the way we see, not sure if that's true but it's an interesting concept.
@@bruh7894 That sounds like its the origin of the phrase eye fondling
It's also how ray tracing works
@@DogsRNice Pretty sure raytracing works more like normal light, where there's a light source or sources that emit rays that bounce around and many of which land in the camera/eye, rather than the other way around which is what's being described as the childhood misconception.
26:30 I guess that answers the question of if it teleports or walks around. Just look at how high their ping is they're bouncing around the map like crazy
i have ping in the lower 100s, it's not like that
I usually have ping that is over 100ms and I am fine
MY PING IS 110000 MS PLEASE HELP
Actually, the ping is supposed to show the distance between you and the creature.
In real time.
@@joshuahilliker2364 like an actual radar or lidar ping then very cool
I love how at 16:39 when he first witnessed it STANDING STILL he wanted to run away but hesitated and wanted to keep track of it, but by then it wasnt there anymore
16:40
Absolutely loved the panic when you realized it was still there. 👌
LIDAR also has some minigame potential I feel. Like, can you imagine how terrifying Hide 'N' Seek or Prop Hunt would be with LIDAR?
Imagine Nextbot + LIDAR
If someone makes/made a version of this mod without the scary moments, then it’d be usable for that stuff
@@ScuttleBugReal theres a option to do that on the mod itself
@@lauraeidikoniene4749 oh sick!
Fun fact: Lidar actually inverts the map you are playing on to make you feel more alienated
Pretty late to the party but he tries it on his own map and realizes thais and points it out
Honestly I never knew that it was actually moving instead of just teleporting after you scanned it. That is so much scarier.
The reason you find it but cant see it as it runs off after scanning is because it runs through already scanned areas. So since there is already scanned areas behind it, you can't see its outline as clearly
nah it teleports lol
@@linuskobal it's just a stalker. Their ai has no actual things they do, so they wander around basically constantly. As a result if you have no way of actively tracking them they cover a lot of distance despite not being very fast.
@@onlinepanic2036 You'd be correct if the gamemode didn't delay their next think way into the future, effectively doing nothing and standing still. The gamemode then constantly removes and respawns the stalker on random spawn locations using the navmesh when burst scanning is used, effectively teleporting. This code is found in the lidarscanner swep.
imagine doing this on a BIG space or underground lab type base map
as this THING is looking for you as you are blindly stumbling
Ever play Scanner Sombre?
@@jackrip6495 No, But i will have to look into it
gm_fork with this addon would be a living nightmare
@@SynthwaveWolf85 Well i know what i gotta download then
@@SynthwaveWolf85 WELL AFTER A MIN ON THE MAP WITH THE GAMEMODE YES YES IT IS
It is in essence the same kinda of thing as the Game IronLung.
You're visually in the Dark, and you need to slowly take snapshots of your environment to navigate.
more like scanner sombre
@@maulidonda definitely scanner sombre
he says this about four minutes in
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me and a buddy of mine tried this today and we found a creepy detail. for context, my friend has a kinda bad computer so they are a bit laggy. i think this was the lag but when they moved around and i did the wide scan thing it left behind these wispy red trails and every now and then a solid mass of red dots, and it almost looked like someone on the ground crawling away from some unknown and unseen force. again, it might have been the lag, but it still creeped me out enough to share.
Players get captured as red dots until the error happens, afterwards they cast shadows too.
One interesting thing about the LIDAR mod from my experience of using it, is the fact that which ever map you play with this mod, the map is mirrored when the mod is been made active.
Ever since ive played LIDAR ive been talking about it in the discord and waiting for the librarian to play it. I'm getting out my popcorn for this one
cool
@@oxymoron02 It may be inspired by it, but not stolen.
@@perico17 its literally an exact copy. And from what i remember seeing the creator never even gave credit to scanner sombre.
did all your popcorn manage its way to your stomache or did some end up all around you?
It actually worked very well to spook someone,
I tried this without looking too deep into the specifics so the jumpscare was a complete surprise and was quite the scare 10/10 mod
Yeah that shit woulda gotten me so good, i woulda just been walking around trying to fully map out a map
I already knew about the entities and stuff when I first tried this mod, but it still scared the absolute shit out of me when the red figure appeared. Now THAT is effective horror.
@@VeeTHis Can you please tell me how to activate LIDAR? I have the mod but can't get it to work.
@@SpinoRexy733 bottom right of the loading screen, you can select the game mode.
@@SpinoRexy733 It's a game mode. Click the button in the bottom right of the main menu, and click "LIDAR" in the drop-down that pops up.
"You're still there!" That sent chills down my spine
It’s interesting that since this is a game mode it completely strips you of your weapons, spawn menu and noclip. Makes it WAAAAY scarier
"You know those days when you wake up and some cosmic deity eaten the Sun? It's kinda like that."
Oh yeah, happens to me every Sunday...
Well, I guess you can't really call them "sun"days anymore, huh...
@Shangex Saturday 2.0
@@minticedteaqwq6999 Saturday: the long awaited sequel
@@waynedunlap846 lmao
@@minticedteaqwq6999 Saturday 2: Electric Boogaloo
hate it when the sun just mysteriously disappears
The fact that he said “I love being blind sided like this!”
I like to think that one of the reasons this is so terrifying is just because of the sound scanning it makes:
A loud, borderline reptilian hiss. It helps activate your fight or flight response by pure instinct alone.
watching you play and immediately thinking "this isn't how the map looks normally, it has to have been flipped somehow" and then hearing you talk about it later in your own map was an incredibvly validating feeling holy shit lol
He made a good point relating this to the extremely relatable situation where a cosmic deity eats the sun. Its such a pain in the ass to use lidar when that happens
yeah i hate it when the cosmic deity eats the sun. seriously this is the 20th time this year and the cosmic deity ate the sun. when will we stop having to use lidar
fun fact: LIDAR mirrors whatever map you're in to make it more confusing. if you did this on a normal GM_construct it's backwards but if you do it on a purposely flipped map It looks normal.
The way he said "IT'S STILL THERE!" you can hear the genuine fear in his voice
14:58 love how you walked around the non scanned floor
I had some time to experiment with this.
[CTRL] will narrow the scan circle when you left click and [Shift] will increase the scan circle. Right click will do a sweep from top to bottom. There is a limited number of dots that remain. Interactive doors will activate but any dots on the door before interacting will stay and not follow the door. The mod copies and mirrors the level you play.
This is just like Scanner Sombre, except that Scanner Sombre will stick to moving sprites. It's very unique.
love how at the start the scary guy is just off screen and only appears for a moment so youre barely able to process what happened, but after it changes you can see the outline on the wall of where the scanner very clearly was blocked by a human-shaped object that is no longer there. very cool i think
L I D A R systems are actually real. They are used by robots to help map dark caves, and by Tesla Cars to determine depth.
I thought Tesla didn't use LiDAR. Elon has said publicly that he doesn't think LiDAR is the right type of sensor for a car. Whether he's right is another matter entirely.
I think Tesla mainly use ultrasonic & radar sensors along with a lot of cameras in their cars. But I could be mistaken. Though it is true that several other companies have been using LiDAR as part of their self-driving sensor suite
Imagine your a tesla car and you're driving then you see some weird red guy
@@mrchoochooguy4045 hehe funny red guy- wait where is he?
@@mrchoochooguy4045 Did you see the video of a person in a tesla and the tesla map thing showed people around him but he was actually alone on the road? Yeah. LiDAR shit.
I think what this mod does is that it makes all meshes see-through and the scanner leaves "bullet holes" which we can see.
One small idea, what if the changing other player's ping is actually the distance between you and them? That just makes me wonder if it does that or not, or if it's just a small thing for detail to make it seem like you're not truly alone.
unfortunetly no
@@billybobjoephilcorncobtiptopge Damn, just a display thing. It would've been cool if the ping was an indication of distance.
“hello everyone and welcome back once again…to garry’s mod” always makes my day.
Man I was expecting you to load up a horror map with it after showing off the mod. That was the first time in a long time I felt a genuine spook. Thanks for showing it!
If you liked this, you'd probably enjoy Scanner Sombre. That's where that gamemode took its inspiration. Its a game that came out a few years back.
once you get the terminal screen there's nothing else, there's unused sounds in the files which makes me think that there's plans for more stuff
also, press ctrl+c when you get the terminal screen
I think we might eventually get an actual survival horror element to this, where the shadows hunt us, and you’d need to use the scanner to catch them before they get you.
What does control c do
@@dimitriousdrake it removes the darkness for some reason. You see the map in normal way but you can still scan stuff.
@@hanke9595 it's because in Linux ctrl+c stops execution of command.
@@shawermus oh right. Спасибо, что напомнили)
Hey Librarian! I've been taking a lot of classes relating to geospatial information sciences and LIDAR is one of the things we learned in the class as well as some others too! This is so awesome!
A mod that you can play AND learn some stuff about how vision works (to an extent alteast)
While also serving as a good prank to a teacher when they just are wandering around living the "blind man" experience only to get jumpscared...
The scariest part of this is that even when you've just scanned something, the visual information you're given is already outdated. The entity could still be anywhere.
16:38 Wow, he really did get scared there, it acts just like a normal NPC (at least I think so), it walks around and sometimes stays in the same place, just that it may have something different, like its programming may or may not make it freeze in place when you scan it, so the scan is purer and isn't like one of those phone scan apps where your face is distorted because you move your phone too much.
Something to consider...
The Thing in the map with you exists in dark matter. By spreading your beams, you're imposing on its home. You can't project the beam onto yourself, so the Thing sees you as a dark matter threat, as well. It cannot see you, or hear you, because it can only catch you when you are spreading the beam.
If you simply chose to stay in the dark, you'd exist harmoniously with the Thing; but your curiosity compels you to do otherwise.
You are your own enemy, impending your doom upon yourself.
There is no evidence the entity is malicious
The faint sound of your keyboard ended up freaking me out, as I kept mistaking it for something shifting or footsteps within the map- funny how something so simple and totally unintentional ends up becoming horrifying
I want more mods that intrude creepy shit into my game without telling me, (almost like a virus), like you expect it to be just a map and then it affects completely unrelated maps and such and I shit myself, these are the best things imo
all i can think of is the June 3rd incident lol
Imagine detecting a bird flying around, and it just has permanent dots on it?
And then it just lands on this *_thing's_* shoulder.
16:38 when that thing wasnt going away I was borderline pissing my pants lol
Same, my eyes bugged out. I didn't even know it could stay like that.
Having recently played Scanner Somber I immediately played with this mod, and I've noticed there is an extra player in the game server list despite being only just me on the map. It has no name and a black, blank profile picture which is probably the unscannable entity tied to the mod itself.
How pleasant
@@joshualeahy2162 Haha oh yeah... Even though it is already programmed to have sound effects that play randomly, It should have distant footsteps and faint whispers to really get that spooky feeling. Now THAT would make me nope real quick.
@@xbox2801 Oh my.. hehe now that would be scary! Same that'd make me jump out my seat. I'd love that, would make a fine addition. I like how you think. 😌
@@joshualeahy2162 It's even more terrifying that this is something some people deal with almost everyday. What I mean is Ghosts. You should check out either "Ghosts of Carmel Maine" or "DinoNuggets741" on TH-cam. These two alone have probably the most compelling ghost videos out there. Dino is more "short, sweet, and to the point" and its that idea that you are asleep and you hear loud banging, whispering in the ear, and feeling something bump your bed in total darkness at your most vulnerable 😨😭
This is by far the coolest mod I’ve ever seen. Reminds me of some old Halo CE mods I played as a kid.
I wonder if the npc’s ‘ping’ changes when it gets hit with the laser
Halo CE mods?
Didn't know CE even had mods... apart from changing the values of gun dmg and jump gravity through the files...
@@junkoenoshima6756 RIP. Imagine never playing Hugeass with the flyable Longsword or Coldsnap with the big mecha.
Tiamat strongest mapmaker.
@@SecuR0M ever heard of inferno plus? Funny guy. Makes funny things.
There was a community dedicated to modding the mac version of the DEMO back in the day. I mostly just added new maps. One of them used a lot of light bridges of different colors that got a neon vibe that LIDAR reminded me of.
Imagine if it's ping goes to like 0 or 1
It goes from being so laggy it can't move properly to instant reaction times
One of the best things about this guy's channel is the complete lack of music or any other background stuff, gives off a way better feel that isnt tryhard or content farm-y
except for stuff in the actual games
I literally played this last night. It absolutely got me. I had no idea it was a horror mod, no idea at all! I thought it was some just interesting concept gamemode, simulating robotic sensors and the like, right? I didn't read the description, comments, nothing. I had no warning, at all.
You know those horror games that pretend they're not horror games, yeah? This is one of those but it had literally no hint whatsoever (outside of a picture on the page I didn't see!)
And then it just *got me* while I was trying to 100% fill the map. Horror games usually rarely get me, but I had no idea this was a horror mod. It absolutely got me and holy fuck, I fell in love very quickly. Beautiful.
I appreciate that past the initial jump scare with red man, It becomes completely benign provided you don't have nerves of goddamn candy-floss, if you encounter it enough times it becomes evident that it's just an invisible NPC wandering around in the level,
Edit: I lied apparently the red man encounter resets after a while
One thing I do wish though, is that this gamemode had a ultra powerful full line of sight scan like the actual scanner sombre game this is based on, the medium density vertical swipe really doesn't do it for me
Creepy thought of the day - this is actually how we see. We never see what is there, right now. We only ever see light that has already bounced off a surface, some time ago. Added to this, it takes additional time for the brain to process the information. So we stumble through reality blind and deaf, with our sense of "now" actually being a heavily-processed and highly-interpreted echo of what "was".
Anyway, very cool idea. Would be a very creepy and fun to use alternative to night vision in sci-fi horror games. Would recommend Duskers, actually - very different game of course, but you're remote-controlling drones and you don't get to see what's actually there; you just see what their sensors pick up, which is a low-detail, heavily-interpreted neon wireframe view of the world, with true nightmarish nature of threats never actually revealed.
not really
@@edenkeeping2298 k, good contribution, keep it up.
Tell me, would you prefer a non-processed, non-interpreted echo of what was?
@@remobothic ...uh no, why would I? That makes no sense.
@@NicholasBrakespear Neither did that thing you posted.
Besides having total positional knowledge of every atom and q-fluctuation around you simultaneously with no travel speed or data-processing interval, I.E. having the depth-of-knowledge of God, there is literally no way to actually attain "seeing what's there, right now" by the standard you set.
The sights and sounds your mind sees are as real as it gets- there is no threat a human being could reasonably encounter for which that so-called 'blindness and deafness' would have any meaningful effect on us.
I don't know why but just hearing the pure joy and excitement in his voice makes me smile
I really did not expect this to be a horror map, just a cool little experience. But that sudden outline of a person? Holy moly, my heart dropped.
This would be a fun multiplayer horror where you can only see your friends when you scan and whatever is following you
yeah that's what I thought, like that one game markiplier plays when there's that big blind rat
Can you play in multiplayer?
18:54
That ripple on the wall scared the crap out of me
My theory is that you the character are in some sort of environment where human eyes can’t see anything, so you’re given a device to help you see and navigate. Your job, well, mission, is to scan out the entire place. However there’s something beyond what the device can render. The device also hurts this creature and so it screams, but the device only translates that into a strange static. Bit creepy…
I just got the thought about that the figure you see. It always makes a shadow in the scan and as one comment said below maybe the material is flesh that the scanner cant detect. Now imagine the thing when you scan it jsut runs away but leaves the shadow there. What if it stalks you but really wants to avoid you.
Congrats on 100k my guy :D
Gotta say I really like how you go about playing things like these! You’re more interested in why things are happening and theorize quite a bit while playing! It reminds me a lot of the Doctor from the sci fi show Doctor Who, who when faced with creepy situations seems to ask more questions or theorize why things are happening then actually be scared. When you do that it’s very enjoyable! Keep up the good work!
What's scary throughout this video is the spans of time when you *aren't* using the laser to scan. Because the existing dots won't move if something changes. This game mode is really interesting in letting you feel like you're not blind, when you aren't seeing anything whatsoever that's happened since you stopped actively looking.
This is reminding me of "The Devil's Tuning Fork" which was a horror type game that used sonar as way to see to the game's environment.
I found this game a while back called: Scanner Sombre.
It's basically just this but a standalone game. Thought I haven't actually played it myself, it looks awesome and has this exact premise. I'm pretty sure it's horror but I could be wrong.
All I know is that you're in a cave and you're trying to get out of it or sumn. It's like 2hrs of playtime and it looks pretty cool.
"this has such so much potential for horror" oh little do you know.
26:38 "Thank you guys so much for suggesting it to me...and suggesting it...and suggesting it."
Yeah...I think we went a little overboard lol. 😅
11:40 At the exact moment that happened, my GPU freaked out (it's really old and beginning to die) and the image glitched on both my monitors lol.
I think you should try this on some of the liminal space maps.
Now it can feel foreign and "off" twice as much.
I remember seeing LIDAR on the workshop a while ago, but since my Gmod bricked I couldn't try it, thanks for allowing me to see this
if your gmod bricked try unsubscribing from your most recently subscribed addons
I love watching your videos at night, your videos are just so calming
"Its like being in a little kid's room with all the glow-in-the-dark stars glued to the ceiling"
(5:42)
it's like Scanner Sombre, you should play it
I glad he mentioned Iron Lung, because that's exactly what LIDAR reminded me of right off the bat
Really happy to have been recommended this gem of a channel whereas I would've never known of its existence otherwise. Commentary is intelligent, insightful and entertaining to watch and listen to. Looking forward to binge through previous content and see what new content I have to look forward to.
I think the other creature is a bit like you. IT cannot see "normally" either. It follows your beams and follows you when you use your equipment which it can sense.
5:47 I think of it like looking at the night sky with all the little dots being stars and other celestial bodies.
Man, this is such a cool idea. I wanna see someone recreate this but without horror, like a tool, and the sounds are so creepy for the LIDAR device too.
Also, how your microphone picks up everything outside including the storm is perfect.
what i love about this horror is there isn't anything trying to get you per say or harm you it lores you into that false sense of security tricking you into thinking its a neat puzzle game witha nice twist to gameplay and then it pulls the rug when it shows that there is a entity secretly watching you or maybe it just exists here, then hit you with some extremely unsettling music that makes you feel unsafe like something is moving closer and closer like you aren't as safe as you once thought you aren't alone anymore or are you?
That first jumpscare got me SO good. Huge props to the developer(s) for that! I thought it was just like a fun little mechanic and that you'd just comfily explore existing maps XD
I didn't even think jumpscares were possible using the LIDAR mechanic
This is genuinely the best way to mix up horror, so much better than your average jumpscare.
You have singlehandedly explained this horror concept so thoroughly that I am now 5 times more scared of any game that uses echolocation while also being 1/5 as scared by any game that uses echolocation.
This is the first video I've seen done by you, but color me very intrigued. I will definitely be sticking around to see what else you talk about on your channel :)
I downloaded this mod for myself, and booted up insertion 2 from CSGO. Something I noticed was that the map was mirrored. Really helps make you feel lost. I booted up a flipped version of nuke, and found it just like i remember in csgo.
Amazing! Absolutely loved this.
What kind of universe does this guy live in where he wakes up to cosmic deities eating the sun.
This is so cool!! We need more innovative ideas like this, it really freshens up the experience.
The “error message” jumpscare, if you can even call it that, was such a slow burn, that once I realized what was happening, that when I saw the outline of a person, I was already in full panic mode.
The first time it went wrong was gold tbh
A terminal screen appeared, like something was wrong, then the shape appeared, and scares me. And then stayed there one moment. For some time I was scared to scan, but then I realized. I'm actually really surprised that that was Gmod
13:35 You just basically described Plato's Allegory of the Cave.
It's very apparent, and very wonderful, that LiDAR is very much inspired by _Scanner Sombre,_ a game that I have seen _long_ before I even heard of this mod.
If you haven't heard of it before... Well, it's best if you play it yourself.
Just know that it uses the exact same sight mechanic that LiDAR uses, just without the same color-coding.
In Sombre, that's used for _distance,_ I believe, not _material,_ and you can't see into the distance as far as you can here...
i love your channel so much, you get so analytical with these horror type stuff its so entertaining to watch
"Hey, I heard you liked the dark room..."