[RELEASED] VR Panorama - render 360 stereo videos

Thank you, very much!! You have saved me a lot of time!

 

Thanks for quick response! Vignette off and Eye adaption off, WORKS

 

Yeah, those one shouldn't be used in 360 videos. Vignete is a an effect that acts on borders of an image (thus, it has to use finite Field of View). But a 360 video has an infinite Field of View. Actually, it is 360 angles wide, but for it's nature of being seamless,it can be considered as infinite, or without borders. This is why Vignette doesn't work . it can exist only if an image has borders - and this makes it impossible to exist in 360 video.
As for Eye Adptation, it is screen space effect that will calculate it's exposition based on pixels that it can see. But as VR Panorama uses multiple camera setup, you will end up with different slices being exposed differently. In real life it isn't a problem, as you mostly don't want to use it . real life scenarious have panorama that probably has a bright light on one side and other side that is back lit. So there is no way to have a good approximation of light on that large scale of HDR values.

 

Really love VR Panorama! It's a great tool. I tried to test it with a simple HD render Loop SRP scene in 2018.1.0b8 and the images came out pink (error). Is there any plans to implement HDRL and other SRP? Thank you!

 

Yes, I'm planing on supporting it - but not before official 2018 stable release. SRP is still in it's early stage and documentation is almost non-existent.

 

Dear when I use the VR Panorama, it does not export the skybox. Help!!!

 

You should check some solutions described in previous posts (there are more than one cause and solution). One of the main problems could be that you have to be sure to use depth buffer, and try to switch camera to Deferred rendering. Also, check that you background color doesn't use alpha set to zero. Rhis also can lead to rendering errors.
Also, some screenshots of your VR Capture and camera settings could help track your issue.

 

Good evening,

I purchased your asset today, and I am running into problems taking a 360 still equidistant photo with my Vive. The center of the images appear to be smeared, torn, and replicated. Please see the attached photo.

https://we.tl/bgv7ucszQp

Windows 10 64 bit | Version 1701 | OS Build: 15063.850
Unity 2018.1.0b10
MSI Geforce 1080 w/ Driver Version: 391.01

I am using The Lab Renderer with Valve's Shader, to take advantage of their rendering optimizations:

1. Explained here: http://steamcommunity.com/games/250820/announcements/detail/604985915045842668
2. Code here: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/the_lab_renderer

If I do not select "Use Depth Buffer," some of my objects are transparent.

I have tried all of the resolutions, changing your settings (environment distance, IPD, camera FOV, image format, camera eyes set to main display, and rendering path (even though The Lab Renderer requires forward rendering for MSAA). If possible, I do not want to disable forward rendering, and continue to use The Lab Renderer for my application.

Another problem, although not as important, is that after a photo is taken, my lightmaps disapeer, and everything seems dark.

Thank you for your help!

 

VR Panorama should be compatible with Lab renderer, atleast when I have checked it - but it was one year ago.
From a screenshot it looks more like if settings for rendering aren't correctly set. Most probably you are too close to a console, so you have to set Environment distance accordingly (it should be set at a distance of nearest object of interest). One question? Does this happens if you are using monoscopic rendering? If it doesn't happen, then you use wrong settings. If it doesn't render correctly then it means that VR tracking or Vive scripts are breaking things, and you have to find a way to deactivate them before rendering.
Also, please post a screenshot of current settings and a resulting image at those settings.

This is a normal - and you should mostly always use Depth buffer (if you don't have some special needs, and know explicitly why you are turning this off)

I' don't have any clue about this. Do you mean realtime shadows or lightmaps? If those are realtime LAb shadows, than probably Lab is sensible on changing cameras, and probably needs some reinitializing when switching cameras from a user side.

 

Hello,

Thank you for replying quickly.

Please find the mono 360 and settings screenshots here. The mono screenshot is still affected: https://we.tl/Qkcpp5crQG

I reduced the distance to 1m.

Okay, thank you. I mentioned this because page seven of the help file included with the asset recommends disabling the render depth buffer option whenever possible.

No problem, I will look into this part further, after I can take mono 360 images correctly.

Thank you again, for your help.

 

Hello, have you had a chance to look at this?

 

This means that a camera tracking is still happening somewhere. What is your current setup? Where did you place your VR Capture camera in hierarchy?
Also, are you using a headset in a phase of capturing?

 

How to record 360 video from multiple scenes at once?

 

I am having the problem too...

 

I have canvas buttons triggering animations that I want captured in my VR Panorama, I am not finding that the canvas is interactable, is there something that I am missing here? Just to clarify, I don't need or want the canvas to be visible in my capture, I just want the canvas to be interactable while capturing so I can fire off events as the capture is taking place.

 

This isn't supported as it would be really tricky to do (if not impossible). There aro so many different ways to manage different scenes and it simply isn't possible to make a solution that covers them all. You have to capture as separate files and use your favourite video editing application to edit final video.

 

Please, send me in PM your Invoice number, and I will send you a version that corrects this bug.

 

Not, sure if you are using RT module or offline rendering? If you are using offline rendering (as I assume) then you have to know that it doesn't work in realtime - and for this reason, you can't interact with canvas. Solution is to make some scripts that can interact with animator component, or to do your triggering via another animation. Or to use unity Timeline for this task.

 

Hi olix4242

How could I Start&Stop "Animation Capture" by script?

 

You can activate it by activating VRCapture script.
To be able to stop it by scipt, you should set a VRCapture.NumberOfFramesToRender value to 0.
I think that this should work.

 

Thanks for your reply

Are you meat " VRCapture.VRCaptureList.AnimationCapture " to activate record?
It's error

 

I'm sorry. What's PM ?

 

Private message

 

Hi, very nice asset, I have a slow rain particle in scene with billboard to camera, but the slow rain turn out heavy speedy rain, also a particle fog are moving way to fast, can you help me on this?

 

What particles are you using? I can suppose that they are are controlled by some custom script and aren't standard unity particles.

 

I use a particle from NeatWolf package, no script in the particle, also seems to be builded from stardard particle I use unity 2017.3.1p4

 

There must be some kind of script that messes with time.scale. You can do a check without rendering with VRPanorama: go to menu edit/project settings/Time and set timescale to something other than 1. Standard unity particles should slowdiwn or go faster based on this value. If this doesn't happen (and particles always have a same speed) than you have to contact a developer of that particle system and see what script messes things up.

 

Thanks for the answer.. I'm still having trouble figuring out how to get similar Depth of Field results to what I see during gameplay versus an export via VR Panoramo. How would I use RT module to tune my effect?

 

Dear when I render stereoscopic it seems very weird. this does not happen in monoscopic.
What can I do?

 

Hi @olix4242
Is this package compatible with Unity 2018.1 beta and the post processing stack v2? I just need to capture a still 360 panorama image.

 

Yes, it is.

 

You are dealing with a problem of having close objects in a down zone of a 360 image. This is a worst possible case for any 360 stereo video' and probably should be avoided when possible. You should use some workarounds.
- set you camera at larger distance from bicycle handle bar.
-Use HQ rendering mode (on expanse of reducing rendering speed)
-adjust environment distance value to something shorter than default
-set IPD distance to some low value (but this have a downside of making your bicycle look bigger)
-mask a down zone with a shadow or blur.
Keep in mind that any object closer than 50 cm - 1 meter to camera (especially in low or top zone) will produce some kind of ugly and annoying effect. Heavy warping, stitching issues, or completely wrong stereoscopy. This is also why most 360 stereo videos simply mask this zone with logo, blur or black mask.

 

Hello,

I am going to try explain the best possible way my necessities.

I need to do streaming video from a Unity camera to an Ip Multicast using the RSTP protocol.

Can I do it with VR Panorama plugin?

Best regards

Rafael

 

Hello ,
Just bought the plugin - it looks great... but I cant get the output video to appear. It produces the image sequence and a wav but no mp4... I'm running windows 10. A dos prompt pops up and starts doing ffmpeg stuff but then it vanishes too quickly for me to read what the problem was and no mp4 appears... Any clues? I tried searching this forum for same issue but couldn't find it easily though i guess it's there(!)

EDIT:Forget this sorry... I hadn't checked the Encode h.264 video checkbox... duh.

Thanks
Ross

 

Thanks again for the awesome plugin. I've got a shader issue. Using the Unity FX/Glass/Stained BumpDistort shader - I get black artefacts around it that aren't there in the exe... Any ideas why that might be?

 

Hi.

I have a problem with water reflections. Reflections are moving around when I record a video, but they are normal if I play Scene in Editor. I am using water4advanced from standard assets and unity 2017.1.3p3

Link to a video(20s-30s Reflection of ships in water):

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10215822910785937

VRCamera settings: https://ibb.co/kaZEdn https://ibb.co/cznpB7
Quality settings: https://ibb.co/exq9B7
Water4Advanced Settings: https://ibb.co/kGmGr7

 

Hi Oliver,

I would like to buy your asset in order to use Pegasus but your asset needs integration. I wrote to Adam Goodrich from Procedural Worlds and you can see the thread: https://forum.unity.com/threads/peg...ythrough-generator.428488/page-4#post-3487617 and his post. He could help you with the integration.

 

Hi Oliver,

We purchased VRPanorama last March for a 5.3.3 Unity application and it run correctly.

We have re-installed the version in the computer and now when downloading tells us that we need to upgrade to version 5.5.1. Is there any repository of older versions available?

Regards,

 

Sorry for a lateresponse. I didn't get any notification on new posts
Can you share an image and some info on your problem? Just form a description it's impossible to guess.

 

I don't have idea what might cause this issue. But I can guess that a water script uses some different aspect ratio for it's render texture. You can probably try to switch unity game view to fixed aspect ration, and see if this correct issue (16: 9 if you are using standard HD or 4k).

 

Please contact me in private message with you Invoice number, and I will send you an old version.
VR Panorama doesn't actively support anymore older versions than 5.5.

 

Hi, I currently use your plugin with the following settings in Unity 5.6.4f1:
Capture Mode: Animation Capture
Capture Type: Equidistant Mono
Capture Angle: 360
Sequence Format: JPG - Quality: 100
Resolution: HD 720p
FPS: 30
Number of frames to render: Depends on my own video 360's length

I am playing a video 360 on a sphere using AVPro and I am using your plugin to do a recapture of the whole video including the GameObjects I have in front of the camera.

It kinda works, but I have one of two possible issues:
1. Video is missing frames and the last few seconds is the last frame repeated.
2. The end of the video is cut short (it probably have some duplicated frames).

I start playing my video and start recording at the same time. My video finishes but the recording is still going since it hasn't rendered enough frames yet. What ends up happening usually with the end result is a video that seems like it is going a bit faster, it's doing that since its missing some frames here and there since the recording and the playing fps are not perfectly synced, the ending of the video is always a couple of seconds of the last frame repeated. My first solution was to reduce the frame rate of my video, but I cant be perfectly accurate with the rate so usually the end result video is cut short or problem #1 happens again.

What I ultimately need is a way to perfectly sync the video and the recording. I'm unsure what would be the best way to go with your plugin to have the same video length while also avoiding the few skipped frames. Let me know if you have any idea, otherwise ill probably have to use the single frame screen shot and go frame by frame on my video but I would like to avoid that approach.

Thanks.

 

Hi, this is a known issue with AVpro. I don't know what version are you using, but here you can find a solution for Windows Media version (this is the only one that I have a licence for - so I wasn't been able to make a solution for QT version). This is somewhat a hack but as this problem doesn't depend on me, and a real solution on syncing time can be done only by guys from AVpro, this is a best that I could do.
https://forum.unity.com/threads/rel...-360-stereo-videos.336086/page-8#post-2628234
p. s. Why aren't you using new Unity Video that is as powerfull as AVpro?

 

I see. I'll try that script and see how it goes. Thanks! As for why I use AVPro, this is what was being used when I arrived on the project. I never really tried using Unity Video so thats mostly why, I just kept using what I was used working with.

 

yess!! tnx! perhaps you could add this as a feature? Anyway... thanks

 

Actually, it is included in latest version

 

seriously? Nice... tnxxx I bought it last week or so, and could not find it.... is it still being processed?

 

Then you should have it included in
Assets/VRPanorama/Tools/VideoSync.cs

 

Hi Oliver,

We have tried the asset and an error appears that previously did not have.

null texture passed to GUI.DrawTexture
UnityEngine.GUIrawTexture(Rect, Texture, ScaleMode, Boolean, Single)
VRPanorama.VRCapture:OnGUI() (at Assets/VRPanorama/VRCapture.cs:1276)

Is this the same version that we downloaded in March? How can we correct it?

Regards,

Jesus

 

Hi, I'm trying to render my scene in stereoscopic 360.
My camera is set to 'Solid Color', which is animated (slowly changing from dark blue to black) but for some reason it always renders this light blue color here regardless of my camera setting. Even without the animation.

Another camera with skybox worked fine. Just my solid color is being ignored.
What could I be doing wrong?