[RELEASED] VR Panorama - render 360 stereo videos

Any word on dx12 support? it all works brilliantly on dx11 but outputs black when I switch to dx12.

 

ohh and motioblur goes a bit crazy on the bottom half of a stereo capture. I realize it's a bit iffy to use MB for stereo VR captures but if it's any easy fix it would be great.

 

Hi Oli! Quick question re: ffmpeg settings and using other programs for video editing. It seems like any time I try to pull a VR Pano Cam image sequence into Premiere or even when I pull in an .H.264 video and render it out, I can never get the render to look as good as when I use the standard ffmpeg options built into the plugin. It appears to be a bit depth/bitrate related issue as it has glitchy/pixelated artifacts.Do you have any advice on the ffmpeg settings you're using which we would need to replicate the encoding in something like Premiere? This would be helpful in the case where I'm editing together multiple scenes for a compilation or demo.

Also, is there an easy way to do a quick render from the command line that's identical to the settings in your Encode H.264 Video but allows you to change the end video resolution? So if I rendered 4K stereo images but wanted to encode into a 2K video; it's more or less doing what your "Encode best quality video for Gear VR from 4k sequence" is doing, but allowing for selection of the final resolution.

Thanks!

 

The rendered 360 video is dimmer than the original scene, is it intended?
And there will always be artifacts on the cube corners, I can't see such in your demo video, how could I fix it?

 

Hello, i'm trying to use Volumetric Fog & Mist but it does not show up when I render it out. How do I get it to show up?

 

Hi, you should activate something like "support for multiple cameras" in VF&M. I really don't recall how it was called correctly, but Kronnect made this asset compatible with VR Panorama.

 

Hey I sent two support emails I haven't heard back. Getting a compile error.
Maybe check your trash idk. Looking forward to using the asset.

 

Hi there, I've submitted support email re: an issue when trying to export a combo of a 360 video and a motion sequence. The avatar with motion sequences renders out smooth and clean but the 360 video behind is all glitchy and like it was shot stop motion (basically speed and frames are fubar). I tripled checked to make sure the avatar asset and video asset had same frame rate etc. but nothing seems to help and I have not heard back re: support. I purchased this with the specific purpose of rendering out project for sharing direct from unity to save what I hoped would be a lot of work but as it stands it is unusable for me. Hopefully we can get this sorted or I'll be asking for refund. You can see the video issue here:

In the unity project via headset, unity build, and the original video everything is perfect and smooth.

 

Hi,
when i rendering a sequence 4096x4096 appear a square halo in video , why?

 

Turn off any kind of AA you have going on in the scene to start. VR Pano uses its own super sampling so any kind of AA is not needed and will cause the banding you see. When creating 360 videos the only post processing I use are AO, Bloom and Color Grading. Auto Exposure is ok but if not used right you won't see the same in the capture as you see in the game view. Turn off Vignetting, Chromatic, DOF and Motion Blur there not needed and just complicate things in the capture.

 

If I have a 3D model and I want the VrPanorama camera to move along a pre-selected path in the model. What's the best way of animating that path?

 

T's Migueljb now it's fine.

 

Hi,
I use PEGASO and all work very well

 

PEGASUS on asset store, that one?
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/animation/pegasus-65397#description

 

Yes

 

I just realized that VR panorama 360 is now supporting GPU recording. This is really amazing! And so much faster...
I have a question. Is it possible to record videos continuously even when scene change happens? I would love to be able to skip the third party video editing step and edit everything within unity but I haven't found if this is possible using unity only.

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you.

 

Hi, it seems like this asset does not work properly in 2019.3 with HDRP. It ignores the post settings.

Any suggestions?

May be related to these errors?

Destroying object "TempBuffer xx (from 16 to 22, line 729 to 735) 2048x2048" is not allowed at this time.
UnityEngine.Object: Destroy(Object)
VRPanorama.VRCapture:LateUpdate() (at Assets/VRPanorama/VRCapture.cs:734)


InvalidOperationException: This cannot be used during play mode.
UnityEditor.SceneManagement.EditorSceneManager.MarkSceneDirty (UnityEngine.SceneManagement.Scene scene) (at <0a2a5ea3c8ab4e3394576dd407a984f6>:0)
VRPanorama.VRPanoramaEditor.OnInspectorGUI () (at Assets/VRPanorama/Editor/VRPanoramaEditor.cs:688)
UnityEditor.UIElements.InspectorElement+<>c__DisplayClass55_0.<CreateIMGUIInspectorFromEditor>b__0 () (at <0a2a5ea3c8ab4e3394576dd407a984f6>:0)
UnityEngine.GUIUtility: ProcessEvent(Int32, IntPtr)

 

Has anybody experienced differences in Post Processing exposure/colours using 2019.3 and VR Panorama. I can no longer get a predictable output. It's almost as if the gamma or tonemapping is totally off.

 

Sorry for the necro but I'm also using some HX components and having issues with mono 360 capture, though mine seem to mostly be lighting related. Do you remember how you resolved this?

Am seeing basically this, though in all resolutions. Some parts are fine but some go light / dark / flickering. Were you able to resolve this? Thanks!

 

Sorry - unresolved - but fortunately for me, I could stay with the 4K and it was ok...

 

Hey @olix4242, I'm getting this error whenever I try to capture a still during run-time:



It will keep on posting like this until I stop.

 

@olix4242 Am seeing what look to be similar issues to others here with dark areas of scenes and lighting. The scenes look fine when running through them but not when rendering out a video - scenes with simple lighting and shader setups seem ok, but those with more nuanced setups like number of lights, use of emissives and Aloy shaders, and more use of dynamic lighting end up with everything ranging some small dark areas that flicker in and out to most of the entire scene being black. We do have some post processing on the camera, including HX Volumetric Camera and Image Effects and Beautify.

Any pro tips as to what else I might dig into to resolve this? Common things you might think of? Thanks!

 

Ussually, from my experience, this can happen in cases when you don't have enough VRAM available. Reasons for this can be different:
-some image effects not releasing correctly a memory.
-Rendering larger resolution than what your GFX card can handle.

 

@ElliottMallard

Same Issue here.
I'm using 2019.3.0f6

I've tried disabling post/sky/fog/reflection probes to check if these cause the issue.
but it just gets darker and darker. any workaround?

thanks

 

Are you sure you aren't using automatic exposure?

 

Now that HDRP is released, does this asset support it? Haven't bought it yet.

 

thanks for the reply, so It turns out HDRP can set
Post-effects outside the scene as a default setting under project settings.

And you're right, the automatic exposure was set to On.
So I set it to 'fixed' but The grey-ish outcome was still an issue.
but then after few tests I found out that the tonemapping was causing this issue. (Mine is set to ACES)

please see the attached photo. I have exaggerated exposure settings(to get solid white color)
while using ACES tonemapping. the result is grey although it's supposed to be white.

am I only facing this issue or is it just the way it is for now?

thanks.

 

Not sure what is happening. But, from my experience, HDRP is still having some problems with consistency. I have noticed too many problems (also with usage of VRAM) while working on my Deckard Render plugin. I think that it would be a best thing to submit your case to Unity. VR panorama does some simple things, and they should be compatible with any pipeline (thats' also why VR panorama is still one of the most used and most reliable assets). If those things doesn't work, it is probably some bug inside Unity. But with HDRP, we are mostly in a blind area of developement.
p. s. I really hate to give answers like this, but I really don't have any means to give some better response. Sorry!

 

thanks again, even though there's no clear solution. I guess HDRP still needs a lot of fixes.

about the grey-ish issue. I have decided to manually adjust exposure value in compositing software.(ae,photoshop)
simply adjusting exposure and offset value gave me satisfying result.

 

Another request for DX12 support for this great plugin.

 

Guess the next step is DX12 support and HDRP so we can start recording stereo videos with raytracing?

 

I'm using 2019.3.0f6 as well and I cant seem to get VRpanorama to record anything at all. Do you mind sharing how you set up your project?

 

What issue are you exactly facing?

 

My renders keep coming out as pure black images when I do Video capture and as other colours when I render in 360. Its only when the renders end that I see flashes of what i'm actually trying to render.

 

Hi everyone, I try to use Unity Recorder to output VR works as panoramic video.
Unfortunately, I get the following panorama bugs.

1. Particles made with fire video.
This happens when the camera is close to the fire.

2. Fire made with LineRenderer.
The same situation, the difference is that these fires are made with LineRenderer.
I changed Alignment to TransformZ and achieved the same result with LookAt,it works!
I didn't expect to solve this problem, which is very weird.

3. Unknown black blocks in the mirror.
This mirror is made with MagicMirror asset, I don't know why this color block appears in a specific angle.

4. Water reflection bug.
Does not reflect objects in a specific range.

The above bugs will not be seen in VR, only when outputting as a panoramic video.
If anyone knows any solution please let me know, thanks

 

I'm working with some 360 capture generated by VR panorama and I've noticed that there's significant "pinching" at the poles - is there some setting that's causing this?
My colleague rendered the footage, so I don't know what settings they used, but should I ask them to go back and change something, or is this a known problem with 360 capture generated by this asset?
See attached images.



edit: I'm working in premiere pro with footage that I assume was compiled from image sequence by the ffmpeg process.

 

Hi OliVR,
Is there a tutorial video or website I can look into to use this plugin?
Thank you

 

Hi again,
Actually I don't need a tutorial- but I have a problem with the speed of the video. I have a 360 video as the skybox, and animated objects in the scene.
For some reason, it stopped rendering the image sequence into a mp4 video, even though Encode H.264 video is checked.
Also When it was working before, it would export the video with the 360 video running faster than the normal speed. Any idea what is going on?

 

Hi @olix4242 !

I used your plugin for several years ! Thanks it's really very good. I just have a problem with Ambient Occlusion with PostProcessing.
Unity version : 2018.4.19f1
VRPanorama : 3.0
Post Processing : 2.3.0



I used your demo scene with post processing and just Ambient Occlusion (SAO mode)

Do you have an idea?

Thanks.

Best Regards.

 

Whjat system and hardware are you using? What settings, what are you trying to render? What Unity version, what SRP? Does a demo scene renders fine? Without specific info, I'ts impossible to give you any meaningfull answer.

 

As for particles, be sure that you have selected orient sprites to camera (in quality settings of your project).
Sometimes it isn't enough. You have to know that you are trying to render simple planes, and they will be off when rendered in 360 video. You can always use HQ mode for this type of scenes, it will try to mitigate those problems. But, you actually shouldn't ever go too close to objects and pèèarticles when dealing with 360 videos. There is no way that they will stitch right.
As for other bugs, it really depends on assets that you are using. You should check with publishers of those assets.

 

Never heard of anyone having this issue. Are you using SRP? Soem more information?

 

If you are using video player in unity, you have to use VideoSync.cs script to syncronize it to VR panorama.

 

Hi,
No SRP....
I just test with new project (just VR Panorama 360) and PostProcessing, i've the same issue with 2018.4.20.



I found a trick.... it's work correctly with capture mode selected to Animation capture....
But it's not very pratical.


Thanks.

 

Hi Oliver,
Is there any way to enable planar reflections in VR Panorama Pro? It is hands down the best 360 VR capture (and I've tried them all) but not being able to capture planar reflections is breaking my heart. I'd also dearly love to see DX12 for raytracing. Will you be working on this at some point? Thanks, John

 

This looks like a vignetting problem. Be sure to deactivate vignetting both in your volume overrides, and in your scenes default hrdp settings

 

I have examined your project, and it looks like this version od Post Processing has some strange bug. Probably related to rendering one frame with multicamera in forward rendering path (some post processing effects need few frames to 'warm up').
You can correct this issue by switching your camera to Deferred Rendering Path. (BTW, it should also give you a better quality lighting)

 

Posting this again because the developer seems to be ignoring it.
I'm still having this issue after switching the aspect ratio: Originally we used the "suggested" Youtube preset provided in the asset (16:9 / 7680x4320) which doesn't conform to the normal 360vr aspect ratio of 2:1. Then we tried the 2:1 8k standard (7680x3840) and the issue still persists.

Is there a solution to this or is distortion at the poles of 360 video simply a known drawback of this asset??? Would be nice to actually get a response.

 

Hi, this was explained many times here. This hasn't anything to do with vr panorama, but its a limit of a Youtube player that doesn't wrap image correctly. Most players will have some sort of warping on poles - this is because they use simplified UV mapped spheres for optimization purposes, and as nobody usually looks at poles, they sacrifice this area by not adding enough polygons. If you try other players, you will probably see similar pinching, but with a different shape/intensity. I think that even youtube pinches this area differenly on different platforms/apps.

 

Thank you for this. Should I be applying this script to MainCamera, I suppose? Is there a documentation about using video player and exporting the scene using VR panorama renderer?