Pegasus - no fuss cutscene and flythrough generator

Sorry - I am onto this and will make it tomorrow - crazily busy at moment.

 

Crowfall, one of the most anticipated MMO's of 2017 recently had a big reveal of their new graphical update, and I spent some time with their lead environmental artist Jon O'Neal last weekend.

I was literally gobsmacked (is that a word?) about how heavily they were using Gaia, GeNa, and Pegasus, and they are also now using our new (soon to be released) shader.

In this video, the terrain and texturing was done with Gaia 1.5, general environmental spawning was done with GeNa, the terrain shading was with our new shader (just into beta yesterday), and the character and camera movement was Pegasus. Incidentally, @chingwa, the lighting and weather is Tenkoku.

Was so wrapped to be able to help such amazing talent to do such cool stuff!

 

Adam... sorry to keep bugging you, but could you please explain the changes that need to be made to the Pegasus prefab (Helios2D_For_Pegasus) that ships with Helios in order to actually make the two work together? Thanks

 

Hey - sorry - i have not forgotten this - have a massive deadline to meet - so have been flat chat - will get this for you in the next few days.

 

Hi Adam,

wanted to send you the link to this archaeological / historic reconstruction 360 video I made (www.vrbn.io). Pegasus was used in it.

I'll have to tweak a few more things, but I hope you like it!
Cheers,
matt

 

Very cool!!

Is the target of this a video or a general VR experience ? Can provide some advice on how to perk this up a little visually if you are interested.

 

Hi,

The main demo is an oculus VR demo, where you fly with the camera, can sit on a chair and look around. This 360 video was rendered out from the same camera.
This was exhibited for 3 weeks directly on-site!

Always interested in some feedback. If this is OT here, maybe PM me. Thanks!

 

oh, and after doing this project with pegasus, I have to re-iterate that things would indeed have been easier (wish list!) if there would be a mode where each POI can be given a target time and the speeds are calculated/weighed for you. Especially when animating the camera against precise audio tracks is very tedious when 1 POI speed changes that offsets the rest of the animation. (but I guess this depends on the preference and project, of course.)

otherwise I believe it's a great tool!

 

Also made my flythrough with Pegasus, great asset

 

Hey everyone - I am pleased to announce that my latest project CTS - Complete Terrain Shader just went live!!

It's a collaboration between NatureManufacture and myself, and we are very proud of it.

All of the demo videos were made with Pegasus and I also added new weather integrations with Enviro. There will be more goodness coming to Pegasus soon.

 

Adam... sorry to keep bugging you, but could you please explain the changes that need to be made to the Pegasus prefab (Helios2D_For_Pegasus) that ships with Helios in order to actually make the two work together? Thanks

 

Sorry mate - been so busy on CTS. I will grab the latest version of Helios and make that video today. It is a dumb setting that I told John about 6 months ago - its not set correctly and is a bugger to find.

 

Just a heads up - i had a very unusual message when I went to do this - I have referred to john for comment.

 

Thanks so much for looking into that. Would you mind posting John's thoughts on it here?
Also, really looking forward to Gaia 2, and congrats on CTS... so sorry to distract you!

 

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He fixed it. You should be good now.

 

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Am honored to have Jon O'Neal, Lead Environmental Artist from Crowfall talking about his experience Crowdfunding Crowfall, and with the Procedural Worlds toolset. In the environment section in the video below I was amazed by how deeply Gaia, GeNa, CTS and Pegasus were used to bring the scene to life.

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Hello guys!

Any way to trigger a PlayMaker event when I reach a "POI"?
I might need a way to trigger some events when I reach a particular POI. For example I might have multiple paths and I want the camera to jump to another path when I treaches the end of the first path. Also, before "jumping" I might want to do a fade or something.


Thanks <3

 

This is a pretty nice idea and shouldn't be too hard to implement.

I have also made a new trigger for post px - which allow you to add new post fx when you hit a poi - and pegasus also now has timeline and wapi integration...

Guess i better publish that update

 

By the way. If you want and if you make a PlayMaker integration... there is something like this:

- GameObject that has the FSM
- FSM Name
- Event to Send

A GameObject can have multiple FSMs so there as to be an input that can tell to what FSM to send the action.

About the Timeline integration... that sound also cool... but I would love if you would be able to also do a small PlayMaker integration. It also shoudn't be that hard.

In the past I used a tool similar to Pegasus that a programmer builded internally for the company I worked on. It was similar but we had a lot of actions for each node. I could activate/deactivate objects and a lot of stuff like that. At one point I requested a the option to send an event to a fsm in playmaker, and the programmer did it in 1-2 hours.

 

Yeah sounds like a very cool idea - i bought playmaker years ago but have never really used it... so it will be bit of learning curve.

 

Very good Pegasus tutorial here by GamerPET!

http://bit.ly/2i5PF4H

 

Good video. Always liked the simplicity of pegasus and the great features like the visualisation tool and shortcut options. Totally agree with the reviewer regarding the multi node editing especially related to speed control. It is a lot of work to change the speed for each node. It is my only real problem with pegasus. I remember suggesting this as well. A quick fix could be a total path speed multiplier. Fine tuning multiple nodes and multi-editing would be great but a path velocity multiplier is an essential IMHO.

 

One other suggestion I'd make that I think would be very useful would be to have not just 'min POI height' but also 'min POI width'. That way you could skim the sides of mountains, spaceships or whatever without having to move the POI's outwards whic his needed sometimes to avoid clipping issues

 

The per POI speed controls are OK, providing there are not too many, but I badly miss the ability to come to a halt - the classic ease-in/ease-out. Pegasus is a great tool, and sometimes it'd be nice to have that level of elegance and simplicity in 3D apps, but on the other hand, controlling Pegasus' speeds via a curve, like almost all 3D apps and comp apps, might also be good.

 

Thanks for the feedback - noted and documented in trello.

I am planning out the next few months work and would like to bring the next release out. Among other things it already has timeline support.

 

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A couple of things...

On your last POI - set it to look at target - that will stop the rotation issue.

This is because I am using splines and they are a cubic interpolation of the previous, current and next POI's.

And i have noticed that it seems like sometimes it does not quite make it to the last poi... this is probably because everything is interpolated and i suspect the last interpolation interval might be getting skipped - essentially a rounding issue in that last quanta. Just add another poi shortly after - a little bit of playing will generally get you the result you want.

I will also have another update to Pegasus soon - the new feature allows you to plan your path at runtime 'in game' so that you get to see exactly what the camera sees. I have this working in development but its not quite release quality yet. If anyone wants this earlier then reach out via PM with your invoice and i will send the code.

I have also made a timeline version of Pegasus as well... need to dig the code up.. but its very handy. Basically allows you to get exact timeline control over Pegasus flythroughs - which is useful when doing scenes controlled by timeline.

 

Thank you for posting this, it was probably in reply to my post from a couple of days ago that accidentally got deleted

This is an awesome and time-saving resource so far! I figured out why my camera was not making it to the last POI. By default the position damping was .3, when I set it to 0 it now goes to the end with no problem. Setting the position damping to 0 seems to make the camera stick exactly to the path from start to finish.

Thanks!
Perry

 

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Hi,

You wrote:

"Pegasus has also been integrated with Helios by UtopiaWorx to allow you to create high resolution 2D and 3D / VR videos!"

Which video recorder 3D do you recommend for Pegasus in 2018?

Helios with only 4 stars and no updates and look at last reviews.

The UtopiaWorx's website seems to be dead and "Not Found". I see no updates at UtopiaWorx this year at all.

I bought an asset VR Panorama 360 PRO Renderer by mistake and got refund yesterday. But I am not sure if that was a wise decision?

This VR Panorama 360 PRO Renderer seems to be better alternative now because of updates and features. The question is compatibility with Pegasus?

 

I recently did this with Helios and it worked fine for me:

http://www.procedural-worlds.com/blog/origami-reimagining-reality/

I have always found John to be responsive to the community when people ask him for help.

 

I'm not sure of a VR solution. As far as I can recall, Helios doesn't do VR but it does an awesome job with 2D/3D non VR if that is what you are looking for. At least last time I used it I'm pretty sure that was what John was saying. It has been a while tho. But I can vouch for the awesomeness of Pegasus + Helios for the normal videos!

 

This appears to be the only asset of yours I haven't purchased. I was really hoping this one would have been included in the May Madness sale. I haven't had a "need" for this, but it's on my wish list.

 

I'd like to know too. The helios 3D web site appears to have been hijacked (hacked) and a redirect is in place that (thankfully) Google blocked for me.

 

I do not want to spam here because I got refund from the guy from OliVR and I think he wasn't happy. But I can see that the VR Panorama 360 PRO Renderer do everthing and not only VR but normal videos too. And I can see recent updates of the VR Panorama from April this year and Helios Sep 05, 2017.

The website of Helios does not work at all!

Maybe you could consider not only Helios but this VR Panorama could do the job well and seems to be more versatile with VR support. And maybe you could contact Oliver the publisher and we could select not only one solution.
There are a lot of recording tool on the market that could work with Pegasus.

 

Pegasus just drives whatever you point it at through the scene. If you get the authors to connect with me I will be happy to help them with integration.

 

Hi, it should be - or at lleast, other users that use VRPanorama reported that it works. You can find here some settings that you should use in Pegasus:
https://forum.unity.com/threads/rel...360-stereo-videos.336086/page-17#post-3090266

 

It seems to be an easy integration script if only these settings worked

Hey guys olix4242, AdamGoodrich, you could do together good stuff and not only video recording but VR support too.
That would be a great extension for mobile apps.

 

The fps settings should be set at the same fps that your system is using.

 

How does Pegasus compare to Cinemachine?

 

I have used both and often use them both together.

Pegasus drives things through scenes... and is focused on ease of use.

Here is the latest version of Pegasus in a recent video I made:

And here is a tutorial / playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLckEMv5tz0E6w7zlwP1ukA-DrDacPGZiA

 

Any news on a pegasus v2 release date and release notes?

 

I will publish this next week. Have been away this week.

 

The new Pegasus is almost ready to go - if you own Pegasus and would like to beta test it please contact me on our Dicord channel here : https://discord.gg/rtKn8rw

There are some very cool new features:

* Run time composition - see demo here:

* Auto roll - adds a bunch of interest - sort of like the way a motor bike leans into corners
* Timeline support - control speed and playback from Unity timeline.

 

Pegasus 2.0.0 just released - a fairly substantial free upgrade.

New features include:
* Runtime composition
* Auto Roll
* Timeline Support
* Unity 2018 Support
* A bunch of usability enhancements.

 

Are you planning on releasing a video or something going over the new features and changes?

 

Yep - coming later today. In mean time click on video above - it jumps straight to new capture system. Its been improved since then but thats the crux of it.