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Render Photospheres Youtube-360 VR Facebook-360 in Daz Studio (PC-Mac!)

mCasualmCasual Posts: 4,605
edited August 2016 in Freebies

Watch it in 4K - or even better, your VR helmet

Friday August 26th 2016 i should post on my (very safe and wonderfull ) site

a kit of props, scripts and presets which let you render Youtube-360 videos in Daz Studio !

Since it's all in Daz Studio it means it's Mac Compatible ! (for a change )

the images can also be posted on Facebook and displayed in the Facebook VR viewer 

https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts7/mcjvrkit

and i think it won't be much harder to make Stereovision ones,

which really increase depth perception when using VR visors

the photosphere used as a background is alcatraz360_byStig Nygaard
https://www.flickr.com/photos/stignygaard/24649255286/

 

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  • JeremyDJeremyD Posts: 265

    thank you! i was waiting for someone to do this :) 

  • mCasualmCasual Posts: 4,605

    The Kit is now Online

    It even supports Daz Studio 1.8 and 2.3

    Consider it a Beta for this weekend

    Saturday i'll probably improve the manual, and conduct some tests and fix bugs, so if you download it now, come back Monday for the ~final~ version

    https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts7/mcjvrkit

    there's also a sort of diary/tutorial for DS 1.8 here

    https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts7/mcjvrkittut

     

  • mCasualmCasual Posts: 4,605
    edited August 2016

    i'll add buttons to the one script of this Kit

    so you wont have to browse through your poser/Daz content

    1 button to setup the 2 cameras and biconvex mirror ( used for filming your scene as pairs of fisheye renders )

    1 button to setup the camera + mcjRemapAndStitch prop ( used to convert the pairs of fisheye renders into one equirectangular image )

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  • mCasualmCasual Posts: 4,605
    edited August 2016

    UPDATE V2 UPDATE V2 UPDATE V2 UPDATE V2 UPDATE

    https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts7/mcjvrkit

    the new version of the mcjReMapAndStitch is now the one-stop-shop

    create the twin-fiseye  render cam and the remap device in 1 (or 2 ) clicks !

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  • MythmakerMythmaker Posts: 606

    As usual Mcasual pull off another feat!

    I'm just gonna wrap my head 360 in spherical to fathom the awesomeness of this latest invention of yours!

    And nice music choice, mod surreal style!

     

  • grinch2901grinch2901 Posts: 1,246

    Good lord this looks amazing. I need to experiment with this! Thanks a ton, mCasual!

  • mtl1mtl1 Posts: 1,506

    @mCasual, if we don't want the VR 3D effect (ie. only use one camera), would this work better than your previous 360 camera release? :)

  • MalawolfMalawolf Posts: 40

    Love to try this but windows 10 wont allow download from the site (says its not safe) :(. 

    I tried from an earlier windows computer but malware was detected.  Is there anywhere else I can try to download it?

     

  • mCasualmCasual Posts: 4,605
    edited September 2016

    the previous versions had you render something like 64 tiles and there was a more complicated stitching process

    this version you do 2 renders 1 is for the sky dome the other is for the ... lets call it the floor dome

    so that's just like an environment sphere or most Youtube-360 videos, 1 point of view

    Stereovision ( 2 eyes, 2 point-of-view ) this system doesnt work, to make stereovision and 360, you have to use Blender and special extensions

    ( intuitively one would think, easy, just render 4 fisheye images ... but it doesnt work !! the stereovision would work for objects right in front of you

    and the stereovision would totally not-work when looking laterally,

    if i understood well the blender system renders thousands of 1-pixel-wide stereoscopic images and create the 1 environment sphere image

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    note that mcjTeleBlender helps you export a to Blender a rozen Daz Scene or a sequence of frozen daz scenes in the case of animations

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    stereoscopic VR 360 

    ( includes some explanations about Blender rendering this )

    monoscopic VR 360  

    mcjTeleblender https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts4/mcjteleblender3

     

     

    mtl1 said:

    @mCasual, if we don't want the VR 3D effect (ie. only use one camera), would this work better than your previous 360 camera release? :)

     

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  • mCasualmCasual Posts: 4,605
    Malawolf said:

     

    Love to try this but windows 10 wont allow download from the site (says its not safe) :(. 

    I tried from an earlier windows computer but malware was detected.  Is there anywhere else I can try to download it?

     

    there's really zero chances that this contains malware

    you'll have to give Windows10 the okay

    the big important file is this one

    https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts7/mcjvrkit/mcjVRKit.zip?attredirects=0&d=1

    it contains only Poser/Daz studio files,nothing that can actually "run", no executable programs, no msdos/windows scripts

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    the less important one which is more susceptible to be feared to be dangerous ( but is not since i wrote it ) is 

    MCJEQUIFORFACEBOOK.BAT

    i packaged it inside the zip file MCJEQUIFORFACEBOOK.BAT.ZIP in the hope it would help people download it

    this file is only needed if you want to make the photosphere usable on your facebook timeline

    if you read the manual page i explained how you can write MCJEQUIFORFACEBOOK.BAT using a text editor in about 5 minutes

    https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts7/mcjvrkit

  • RedzRedz Posts: 1,459

    This is very cool indeed. Thank you so much for sharing it, and for the clear instructions. I'm trying it now and it works great. One additional thing I needed to do for Iray was to set the headlamp to off on each of the cameras. Because I was using HDR lighting, the headlamps defaulted to on were creating white rectangle artefacts in the renders.  

  • mCasualmCasual Posts: 4,605
    edited September 2016
    Redz said:

    This is very cool indeed. Thank you so much for sharing it, and for the clear instructions. I'm trying it now and it works great. One additional thing I needed to do for Iray was to set the headlamp to off on each of the cameras. Because I was using HDR lighting, the headlamps defaulted to on were creating white rectangle artefacts in the renders.  

    that may explain the orbs i was seeing in some of my renders

    sometimes i create a point light and turn its visibility to off or set its intensity to 0, to avoid the scene's default lighting which is used when no lights are in the scene

     

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    here's a script that will turn all camera headlights off in a scene

    https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts7/mcjturnheadlampsoff

     

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  • mCasualmCasual Posts: 4,605
    edited January 2017

    minor update update update

    i added 2 missing texture images in the zip installation package

    the default images for the remap-and-stitch prop

    which, anyway, you are supposed to replace with your rendered fisheye images

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    in other news the public-beta version of Daz Studio 4 ( unless it was released? ) contains a spherical render camera

    so you could use that instead of my vrkit

     

    though maybe this camera only works for iRay renders

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