Creating Custom Spout2 Cameras¶
Written by lunazera
You can have multiple different camera's set up in VNyan that can output to different Spout2 captures. These can be captured and recorded in OBS at the same time.
VNyan now has a built in Camera menu for managing this! However, if you want more specific control of these camera's, maybe to be able to toggle them on/off or use prop gizmo's to position them, then this guide will detail how to create them.
Warning
Adding extra Unity camera's can be taxing on your computer, so you'll have to be careful how you use this. You can try lowering the camera resolution, but it might not be a good option on lower end computers.
Instructions¶
You're just going to make a VNyan Prop with a Unity Camera and Spout Sender in Unity. You'll need the KlakSpout plugin and VNyan SDK (and make sure you have Unity's Post Processing package active).
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Create a new render texture in your project files (under Create > Render Texture).
- Set the Render Texture size to whatever resolution you want (ie 1920x1080).
- Set Anti-aliasing to
None, and Color Format toR32G32B32A32_SFLOAT
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Create a new Camera in your scene
- Set Clear Flags to
Solid Color - Set Background Color to black with 0 alpha
- Set what you want your Field of View to be, or click
Physical Camerato adjust it further (if you want to match the Focal Length setting in VNyan you can set that here) - Set Clipping Planes Near to a smaller number to avoid model clipping
- Set Target Texture to your Render Texture you created.
- Set Clear Flags to
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Add a Post-Processing Layer component to the camera
- Set your Anti-Aliasing mode
- Set the Layer to Post-Processing/layer 8 (you might need to set this up, see below)
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Add a Spout Sender component to the camera
- Set Capture Method to
Texture, and Source Texture to the same Render Texture as before.
- Set Capture Method to
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Export the camera object as a VNyan prop or custom object
That's mainly it! Once you bring this into VNyan and it's visible, you should see the name that you gave the camera under your Spout2 sources. If you're using it as a prop, you can set it to link to anything you want, or directly to the VNyan built-in camera if you want it to have the same view as your in-vnyan cam.
If you want to control something like focal length you can set up an animation and control it with a parameter. Use the VNyan Anim Param Link to control it from within VNyan :3
Rendering Layers and Culling Mask¶
By default the camera's Culling Mask setting will be Everything, but you can change this to choose which layers you want to be rendered in the camera. If you click the Layer dropdown near the top right of the Inspector tab, you will see all the named/setup layers, and add layer at the bottom to setup new layers. VNyan internally is already using many of these layers for rendering post-processing effects, droppables, props, etc. You can set up these layers in Unity here, then use the Culling Mask setting to choose which layers you want to be shown in the camera.
I don't know what all of the rendering layers in VNyan are, but here are the ones that I know about that Suvi shared at some point:
- 0 = Default (likely has your model)
- 1 = TransparentFX
- 2 = Ignore Raycast
- 4 = Water
- 5 = UI
- 8 = Post-Processing
- 9 = Throwable
- 10 = Droppable
- 11 = Ground
- 12 = Ragdoll
- 13 = Edible
- 14 = Mouth
- 15 = AvatarColliders
- 16 = World
- 17 = Prop
- 18 = OnlyAvatar
- 19 = Custom Object
- 20 = TransformGizmo
- 21 = Bubble
- 22 = Hidden on Main Camera
- 23 = Sticker
Example Camera Props¶
I have 2 different camera props to use if you want. One of them you can control the Focal length by setting a parameter with this accompanying graph.