How to output a Stereoscopic VR 180 Degree projection from Unreal Engine

[@Tallacus]

Thanks for this, this will take my animation projects into the future

[@offworldlive]

@@Tallacus this is the future indeed! knowledge.offworld.live/en/detailed-feature-guides/360-render-pass-for-movie-render-queue-basic-set-up

[@pontosinterligados]

Don’t have a hmd currently but I’m very curious to ask how a scene capture camera would render for VR. Considering the scene capture is attached to a player camera, how does it know the way to render a 3D scene for each eye?

[@offworldlive]

that's a totally different concept. this is a 180 VR output. if you are talking about live-streaming two eyes of a VR headset that's a different thing.

[@pontosinterligados]

@@offworldlive yes I know the output. I work with this format on videos but never outputted anything from Unreal. It happens that I was working on a project for VR and I was considering an effect which relies on camera capture 2D. I was wondering how the feeling would be for eyes, since I don’t have a way to test in VR atm.

[@offworldlive]

if you are including any dynamic elements then it's better to render both eyes at the same time because otherwise they will be different for each eye@@pontosinterligados

[@pontosinterligados]

@@offworldlive but I guess there isn’t a pipeline to create two scene capture 2d components (one for each eye) to render a scene to a single texture, than this texture would display a slightly different render for each eye, right? think of the output of a mirror or a portal being created in a sublevel and displayed on the current level inside a material applied on a specific surface.

[@offworldlive]

@@pontosinterligados yes but normally with VR you are live-rendering if it’s a 2d image or if you want a video you make a 180/360 VR otherwise the person has to be totally still with the headset

[@thomashalpin2251]

Will this work for Apple Vision Pro Immersive Video? Edit: And will it also work with Movie Render Queue with Pathtracing?

[@offworldlive]

@@thomashalpin2251 yes to both

[@joshkar24]

now that KZbin supports 8k VR movies and quest 3 can display these, I would love to start creating some content for KZbin using UE5... frankly, i am surprised that it is rare and even the videos shot in the real world that say "8k 3d" or similar, are often less than that or poorly done, something that should be easier to iron out in UE5.

[@offworldlive]

yes - we have a new solution for this: knowledge.offworld.live/en/owl-toolkit-quick-guides/owl-360-180-degree-pass-for-movie-render-queue

[@joshkar24]

@@offworldlive thanks! I didn't see this till now, hope this product is working out, off to research it!

[@offworldlive]

@@joshkar24 its awesome

[@bigeasy213]

I would pay for this if I could get it to work. All the settings in the details panel are fine. The problem comes when I throw the camera in sequencer, it just renders the square preview view and not VR180

[@offworldlive]

@@bigeasy213 hi - you need to enable our 360 rendering pass for Movie Render Queue: knowledge.offworld.live/en/detailed-feature-guides/360-render-pass-for-movie-render-queue-basic-set-up

[@bigeasy213]

@@offworldlive Yup. Worked like a charm! Thank you.

[@offworldlive]

@@bigeasy213 hope u got the license! 😊

[@bigeasy213]

@@offworldlive I can’t believe it’s $1500.

[@offworldlive]

@@bigeasy213 for +8k yes - it’s a professional tool

[@BrentSchnarr]

Can it out put higher than 2160x2160 per eye? (looking for 4096x4096 per eye)

[@offworldlive]

yes - you can set a custom resolution. If you add DLSS you might be able to get that output but it's pretty high resolution so might be tough on the GPU

[@masteryst]

@@offworldlive Hi. I also wonder about this. This is rendering right? So... It doesn't matter on how heavy it is, but it's just take too much time to render. Am I right? Thanksss

[@offworldlive]

yes - it will add time, it depends how powerful is your GPU@@masteryst

[@masteryst]

@@offworldlive I see. Thanks for confirming :D. Wow, I'm using the wrong account to comment lol!!! Anyway, thankss!!!

[@arthurtaylor8726]

It would be nice if you mentioned that you need a paid license to do this. The "free download" version only has equirectangular option in the 360 projection type settings, VR 180 is not an option.

[@offworldlive]

That’s not correct. Which plug-in version are you using? All the latest versions have VR 180

[@arthurtaylor8726]

@@offworldlive The latest full version (using the installer) from your site would not install the "NDI 5 Runtime" because it can never connect with the server. Your "Virtual Production Studio Free Project Unreal 5-2" free download actually works however there is no 180 option.

[@offworldlive]

@@arthurtaylor8726 which server? NDI SDK is included in the packaged exe - it doesn’t need to connect to a server to install, it’s all local…