This handy little tool is for novice scripters and seasoned veterans alike. If you want to practice on bitwise operations or just need a way to convert from Decimal, Binary and Hexadecimal number systems this tool is for you!
Model Statistics:
Triangles: 356
Vertices: 684
Land Impact: 13
Physics Impact: 0.4
Update: 02/17/2023
Lowered land impact by removing sprite sheet and baking everything onto the background per seaoffecundity's recommendations.
Added ability to toggle bit, and count each digit by clicking on it's face.
Added copy buttons for each number system.
Redid the icons and lowered the kerning on bitshift icons
New Variable watcher board that alerts you when it receives a message with an integer value
- Binary, Decimal, Hexadecimal conversion
- Bit shift operations
- AND, OR, NAND, NOR, XOR, XNOR
- Custom level of detail and physical shape
What I needed and a thousand times more
I was attempting to learn how bitmasking works, both in general and inside LSL, and having the hardest time wrapping my little brain around such an arcane topic when I happened upon this product. Needless to say i'm not confused any more. It lays out how the values interact in a really intuitive manner, and as a part time UIX designer, I am somewhat in love with the rotary selector for the binary operator (you can choose AND/OR/XOR/NOR/... basically all of them I think). Thing's dope as hell. :D Given that it's only 75L, this thing is *hideously* underrated. I'm kind of speechless that it costs this little to be honest!
Whether you're just playing around with an important topic in programming as a whole, or looking to crunch some numbers to make sense of the chaos as you dabble in the dark and mysterious magyk that is hashing and bitmasking your data to improve your script, you won't be disappointed.
Now if I could just figure out how they did that selector... :b
great gizmo
exactly as pictured and described, this informative device is an interactive tool for learning and scripting on many levels.
the pencil icon is your input, it brings up a dialog asking which numeric base you would like to use for your input, then it gives a text input box so you can type or paste it in without using chat. that alone makes it better than similar tools on the market.
all interactions are quick and easy. even the little scroll panel for choosing logical operater is smoother than i expected. eveything is run from within one script. no chat or special tools are needed to use it.
the only room for improvement would be a lower land impact. i would use a simplified text-to-texture system covering just hex characters. perhaps some savings could be made on the display too, as some mesh parts are used just for unchanging text, though the modular approach it has now could also be leading to more dynamic display options in the future. as it is 26 land impact isn't much anyway.
at l$75 this is an absolute bargain for scripters, sandbox owners, and educaters. it's a pleasure to use and encourages a deeper understanding of how these bitwise operations work.