[RELEASED] Universal Video Texture 1.1 Update - Video for Unity free and more

Hi

Does it work with data loaded with AssetBundles?

 

Hi, imtrobin.

Currently UVT does not support AssetBundles.
That may change in future updates.

 

Hi, this looks interesting.
I do have one question, how does this perform on mobile, seeing that Resource.Load is called.
Just by itself, nothing else in the scene and a guiTexture, what's the fps one is to get?

I'm thinking of having a short movie in the background in my menu, and maybe more in-game... is it possible even?

 

Hi, Defero.

Performance is pretty smooth across all platforms, just as long you keep in mind the target's hardware limitations (You wouldn't want to throw 2K textures on an iphone
As far as PC / Mac goes - you can play insane resolutions (4K and up) in realtime as long as you have a fast enough SSD and a decent GPU.

The only limitation is Unity's build size cap (still a 32bit architecture).

Thank you for your interest.

Royie

 

Is there a Unity limitation that is preventing that from happening? If not, I like to tackle this as I need this functionality.

 

I'm not aware of a Unity limitation regarding asset bundles.

I believe it can be done, however I'm not sure about performance efficiency.
With asset bundles you'll either have to compile each texture into a separate bundle which may cause an overhead, or compile several textures into an asset bundle and let Unity search and locate the specific texture inside the asset bundle at runtime which may not be suited to real time performance.

 

I noticed you use Resource.Load everytime, you could cache that up, no?

 

Imtrobin, I tried caching in earlier versions, but found it to be less than ideal for efficient memory management, as well as counter productive for longer scenes.

 

Too bad that the image sequence files take alot of space. For a 1 minute good quality movie one could easly hit 70~MB because of unity/cpu correct compression.

 

Yeah, GPU compression is not as efficient as video compression, storage wise. However, performance wise it's far superior as it enables HD texture play even on an entry level hardware.

 

Hi, I'm having problems with unity default MovieTextures, do you think your solution can solve these problems?

-Slow playback in some videos
-Suddenly slows sometimes
-Flick when videos loop

All videos are 720p

Thanks

 

Hi, Paulo.

What hardware are you targeting for?

 

I'm targeting PC.

 

You shouldn't have any problem with 720p with UVT. However keep under consideration that the closest rectangular texture to 720p is 1024x512 which takes 256KB per frame (non mipmapped) - that will amount to about 6-7MB per second of video.

You can check the free version to see if it suits your needs.

Let me know if you need any help.

Royie

 

Kahalany,

First, thanks for UVT, it is awesome and works great! Can't wait for further updates. Can you steer me in the correct direction, I'm new to scripting and Unity and trying to get a button to toggle the video texture to begin playing. I prefer the video not play until a GUI button is pressed. The following is not working for me...

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

[ExecuteInEditMode]
public class button2 : MonoBehaviour
{
public Rect buttons = new Rect(15, 15, 200, 110);
public string buttonLabel = "My Button";

private void OnGUI()
{
if (GUI.Button(buttons, buttonLabel))
VideoTexture.playFactor = 0;
}
}

Thanks,
greg3d

 

Hi, Greg.

You need to make playFactor a public variable and get a reference to the VideoTexture script:

1. Add "public" before "float playFactor"

2. Declare a local VideoTexture to hold the reference: VideoTexture_FullScreen myVideoTexture;

3. Reference your local VideoTexture to your object's VideoTexture myVideoTexture = GameObject.Find("YourGameObject").GetComponent("VideoTexture_FullScreen");

4. Set its playFactor to 0: myVideoTexture.playFactor = 0;

5.Your OnGUI() should look like this:

if (GUI.Button(buttons, buttonLabel))
myVideoTexture.playFactor = 1;

Next update will include an AutoPlay toggle.

Royie

 

Royie, thanks so much for the support. I will give it a try!

 

Royie,

I couldn't seem to get this to work. Steps #2 - 4, does that script go inside the VideoTexture.cs file or in my button.cs file? Also, do I need to declare this as a variable? And this is for a Video Texture, not the FullScreen Texture. Any help would be appreciated, but if you can't I understand. Basically, I want to add a GUI button to start the VideoTexture playing if that makes sense. Sorry, newbie here. Thank you, Greg

VideoTexture_FullScreen myVideoTexture;
myVideoTexture = GameObject.Find("YourGameObject").GetComponent("VideoTexture_FullScreen");
myVideoTexture.playFactor = 0;

 

Greg, these lines go into your button script:

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

[ExecuteInEditMode]
public class button2 : MonoBehaviour
{
public Rect buttons = new Rect(15, 15, 200, 110);
public string buttonLabel = "My Button";

VideoTexture myVideoTexture;

void Start()
{
myVideoTexture = GameObject.Find("YourGameObject").GetComponent("VideoTexture");
myVideoTexture.playFactor = 0;
}

private void OnGUI()
{
if (GUI.Button(buttons, buttonLabel))
myVideoTexture.playFactor = 1;
}
}

* I don't know why there's a space in the "Vi deoTexture" - must be a bug in the post system. It should be "VideoTexture".
** Also you change the "YourGameObject" to the name of the object you attached the VideoTexture to.

 

Royie,

Thanks so much for the help. It's working now, but had to modify a few things...

In the button script I had to add "as VideoTexture" as seen in the line below...
myVideoTexture = GameObject.Find("Plane").GetComponent("VideoTexture") as VideoTexture;

In the VideoTexture script I had to change the following line:
"if (intIndex <= firstFrame)" to this: "if (intIndex != firstFrame)"

 

Thanks for the update, Greg.
Glad it worked out.

 

A question about audio loops:

I'm using around 10 low res video textures that play simultaneously, and each one has its own audio source. UVT seems to handle this well, but once in a while, a few audio sources will skip their loop. This is with Audio Source > Loop unchecked. If Audio Source > Loop is checked, the audio will never skip a loop, but becomes out of sync with some of the videos.

Any suggestions? Thanks

 

Hi, rhubarb.

I haven't done that many simultaneous UVTs yet. Let me see if get this straight: You mean that once in a while an audio clip will not play for an entire loop, but then may resume play in the next? It seems to me that it's an FPS issue - meaning the first couple of frames may be skipped due to performance overhead and so the audio play command will not be sent to the audio handler.

Which version of Unity are you using?

 

Yes this is what's happening.

I'm using Unity 4.1.5

Any ideas for a quick fix?

 

Hi, I am having problems with using the UVT script with the Oculus Prefab camera. When using the prefab within Unity, I can use layers to limit each eyes view. When I introduce UVT to the scene, it causes both cameras to see all layers. Any ideas on how to get this to work?

 

Rhubarb, a quick fix would be to call an audio sync with each update, but that would introduce audio artifacts.

Luckily, I'm just about to finish the next update (due this month) which, among other things handles audio sync and video texture control much better than the current version.

 

Fiore, does this happen with the material VideoTexture or the full screen one?

 

Kahalany, it happens with the material.

 

Fiore, since I haven't used the Oculus SDK myself I can't say for sure, but using UVT should not affect layer visibility as it only switches textures at runtime. In your case, when using the same texture and material for both eyes you should only apply one VideoTexture.cs script to either the right or the left eye and set "shared material" option on.

This should take care of any conflict you might have between the two.

Great to hear it's being experimented with the Oculus SDK.
Please let me know how it goes

Royie

 

Almost here.... A quick pick at UVT v1.75 with the new Interactive, customizable control system for all your UVT materials:

http://kahalany.net/VideoTexture/UVT_Material.html

http://kahalany.net/VideoTexture/UVT_Material_MultiScreen.html

But wait, there's more:

Auto Play,
Auto Destruct,
Auto Load Scene When Done,
Better sync management,
Easy and simple API for controlling all video textures through script,

and the list goes on..

Stay tuned

 

Hi.
Whatare the differences between lite and full version?
I'm targetting iOS/Android what do you think will be the best resolution?

 

You can find a comparison chart at: http://kahalany.net/products.html

 

While the new version is pending review you can check out the following builds running Sintel Trailer using UVT at different resultions.

This should give you an idea of how UVT performs on your device:

512x256 UVT Resoultion: PC / Mac / Android
1024x512 UVT Resoultion: PC / Mac / Android
2048x1024 UVT Resoution: PC / Mac

Instructions:

* Use the WASD keys to move around.
* Hold the Middle Mouse Button to look around.
* Click the screen to toggle playback On/Off.
* Use the scrollbar to scrub through the video texture.

Thank you all for supporting UVT.

Royie

 

helo, is it possible to play with alpha channel ??
and can I play more than 1 alpha channel movie as texture in 1 scene

 

Sure, bex.

Just as simple as using more than one alpha enabled material in a scene.

 

thx your reply, kahalany
two more question, it is possible to play arround 5 alpha channel movie@720P in a scene?? after that, i want to build an android and ios application.

 

Bex, I assume you're talking about 5 alpha channel movies running at the same time..? While it's possible - that would require a VERY fast hard drive or an SSD and would probably be way too much for a mobile platform.

 

v1.75 has just passed Unity's QA and is now available on the asset store.

Thank you for supporting UVT.

Royie

 

Just updated to the latest v1.75 and it caused a FATAL ERROR for the first time and crashed my Unity 3.5.7 on OSX 10.6.8.
Is the latest version not supporting older version of Unity?

 

Hey, bawss.

Did you import the package to a new project or overwritten an old one?
AFAIK none of v1.75 changes should affect compatibility with older versions of Unity.

Try openning a fresh new project, import the package and play the sample scenes.

Let me know how it goes.

Worry not, though - I can always compile a 3.5.7 build if things go sour.

 

Same thing happened when I started a brand new project. It didn't even finish importing, just hard crash about 90% way through (while compiling I think).

Error message as follow :

FATAL ERROR :
Type == kMetaAssetType pathName.find ("library/metadata") !=0

 

Working on a 3.5.7 build for you..

[UPDATE] The package is now ready and available via private request. This should only be of a concern to users who wish to use the latest UVT with older versions of Unity (prior to 4.0.0). Please include your invoice number in your request.

 

I'm getting a following error after importing your asset. I'm using the paid version. Could it fixed?

 

Kahalany, I just tried the latest v1.7.5 build with 3.5.7 fix - but there is a conflict with PhotonNetwork -
Script name Enums.cs is in conflict with PhotonNetwork's Enums.cs. So, could you change the name of Enums.cs to something else like maybe UVT_Enums.cs?
Also, Is it possible in the next update to make it 3.5.7 compatible (easier to update)?

 

Hi, Nilton. It seems like a conflict with PlayMaker.
I haven't tried the two to together yet.

Which Unity and PlayMaker versions are you using?

 

Bawss, next update will be 3.5.7 compatible.
In the meantime you can manually rename UVT's Enums.cs to avoid conflict.

 

I'm using Unity 4.2.1f4 and playmaker 1.7.4f3.

 

Ok, Nilton. I can now confirm these errors are a result of a conflict between UVT and PlayMaker. Apparently, some of their global variables share the same name. I'll add that to the fix list for the next update. In the meantime don't use the latest version of UVT with PlayMaker.

 

I look forward for this update. Because I need both Playmaker as UVT in my project. Have any prediction?

 

Nilton, I believe next month would be a safe bet.