VR Questions? Post them here

Blubbel · March 10, 2016, 02:03:23 AM

Maybe you can offer a "free temp license", to enable this featuer in Terragen? But anyway, you gave me a hint what I should look for, a "stitching tool". Never heard this word before...

Greetings from Austria, Andi

Dune · March 10, 2016, 03:16:44 AM

Chris has done a great job and found some software; on other threads. Check those out.
http://www.planetside.co.uk/forums/index.php/topic,21292.0.html
http://www.planetside.co.uk/forums/index.php/topic,21291.0.html

Hannes · March 12, 2016, 05:41:52 AM

Not entirely a VR question, but do you need the files before you are judging, or only of the ones who made it in the end?
I'm only asking because it may take some time to convert all the .obj files into .tgos to make the file size smaller.

Mohawk20 · March 12, 2016, 07:41:25 AM

I was wondering, most of the VR scenes I have seen using cardboard are also in 3d / stereoscopic. Will the final scenes also be rendered stereoscopic?

alessandro · March 12, 2016, 09:05:13 AM

It'd be nice if we were allowed to crop and eliminate the bottomless part of the image (approximately 1/12th of it), where the terrain (or what's there) get so much distortion that it looks really ugly.

Hannes · March 12, 2016, 12:19:14 PM

Alessandro, if you render out a 2:1 ratio image (at least with the spherical camera) there is no distorted part of the bottom if you watch it in a pano viewer. What do you mean?

alessandro · March 12, 2016, 12:31:34 PM

Hannes hello, I'll search for a better Pano viewer, the one I currently use on OSX probably is the issue. I'll post some pictures as I progress with my image...

Oshyan · March 12, 2016, 04:23:53 PM

Hannes, you only need to submit your source files upon request. That will not necessarily be *only* for winners (we may need to evaluate some aspect of multiple scenes to help decide winners, for example). Also if you compress to 7-zip (.7z) OBJ and TGO will probably be similar size. File size should not be a huge issue in any case.

Mohawk, we do plan to render stereoscopic.

- Oshyan

Hannes · March 12, 2016, 05:04:49 PM

Thanks!
Alessandro, I'm using one of the apps Chris suggested, but I'm afraid they are Windows apps.

Oshyan, good to know. So, there's no need to convert everything to tgo, right?

Oshyan · March 12, 2016, 09:59:15 PM

Correct, no need to convert everything.

- Oshyan

Matt · March 12, 2016, 10:31:38 PM

Quote from: Mohawk20 on March 12, 2016, 07:41:25 AM
I was wondering, most of the VR scenes I have seen using cardboard are also in 3d / stereoscopic. Will the final scenes also be rendered stereoscopic?

You can submit mono renders, or stereo renders if you prefer, but it shouldn't really matter for the judging process.

We will render winners in stereo, and possibly more than just stereo for some platforms

Matt

Dune · March 13, 2016, 03:03:49 AM

Yeah, add some cool animated parts!

Mohawk20 · March 13, 2016, 03:16:12 AM

Quote from: Dune on March 13, 2016, 03:03:49 AM
Yeah, add some cool animated parts!

Yes, like water. Super realistic stereoscopic 360 scenes with water that doesn't move a little bit is just weird, and immediately destroys the realism.

Dune · March 13, 2016, 03:20:16 AM

I got the same reaction when showing my Stone Age hunting scene to someone; can't you make those people move around

Weird that they stand so still.

Hannes · March 13, 2016, 05:33:25 AM

Quote from: Matt on March 12, 2016, 10:31:38 PM
We will render winners in stereo, and possibly more than just stereo for some platforms

I'm curious how to render stereo panos. Is it just rendering to panos, one for the right "eye" and one for the left one?
If one looks up, he can turn his head around which would make right to left and left to right?! I know this has already been done, but I can't imagine how.