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Welp, idk...but i think the tweaks yall made, made it hard to get in a good passthrough quickly

I use to be able to...this was my method

every video I play I use the passthrough in this order

  1. Turn on passthrough
  2. Turn saturation on
  3. Adjust color to about 10 and move it down sum till passthrough looked good enough

Rarely i used the hue, or brightness, I only used them if my first method didn't work so well and that was due to many colors or objects in the room, at that point I would I just find another scene that worked well with my first method, if it was I scene I really wanted a good passthrough then I would "fiddling options" to adjust the hue to find the room color.

My first method got me Into a good passthrough quik and
It worked well, but it varies from video to video

Now with the new update
That method is not working, now it seems like I HAVE TO find the color for every scene.

I'm gonna keep messing with it, maybe it gotta warm up first 🤷‍♂️

And also the new update messed up sum streaming options, many other vr sites I was able to click on the download and the videos would stream, NOT ANYMORE 👎

all sites I use to be able to stream by hitting the download link to stream are not working. 🥺

Anyway this my review with new update, If i find sum positives I will report back...

I tried noir video passthrough worked good, but it was a black background so naturally there's need to be fiddling with the settings to find the color.

    My previous videos that I had passthrough on, the setting are still saved but the passthrough not working as it should with my settings I had it set to, now I have to adjust the options to find the right color...

    Thats the fiddling that turnt users off to the passthrough, they didnt enjoy the "finding for the color"

    And I would communicate to them my method
    Turn on passthrough
    Turn on saturation
    Adjust color to ten and move it down sum

    That was the easiest and quickest way to get a good passthrough, it varied from video to video I found many videos that worked this way, but the videos that didn't work...well THEN I had to find the right color which I rarely did cuz at that point I would just watch with no passthrough or just move on to another video.

    Now I'm forced to find the right color even if it's a white background room. Now I'm fiddling on every video. Not good, this turns users off cuz I felt the frustration they felt fiddling for color on every video.

    Before, well you know, i already explained my execution about my go to easiest and fastest method of choice before the update.

    I like the passthrough button on the player, thought maybe yall put the passthrough options on the player but I guess not, options setting should be on the player too, have em on both the side menu and player

    Oh, that square is gone now when ever I HAD to use the hue, id slide the hue to find a wall color and the square would be there where I could see it up against a color wall so I could match it to that color...yeah not there any more, kind of a bummer.

    Ima keep messing with tho takes time to find a good comfort level, right now comfort level low.

      Vrsumo2017 Hey, thank you for your comment!
      By default passthrough settings are set to black color and without changing settings such as hue or saturation it wont work properly on the videos with background other then black.
      The new passthrough functionality is the same as before.
      Same settings remained and more precision added to opacity (falloff) and color range by increasing value from 100 to 1000
      The only difference, which i think is an advantage is the color pallet for those who are more comfortable with it
      Both methods do the same either you twicking blue bars on Hue and Saturation or using color pallete.

          metaverse Hey, thank you for your comment!
          By default passthrough settings are set to black color and without changing settings such as hue or saturation it wont work properly on the videos with background other then black.

          Before with black backgrounds I just had to turn on the passthrough and it worked simple, it still does

          But also before with non black backgrounds all I had to do is turn saturation on, and adjust the color, worked well with alot of videos, very rarely I had to fiddle with the hue or brightness, now I'm fiddling cuz the majority of scene are not black backgrounds.

          Oh, and the opacity...i use to just use it to smooth out edges, now its making the models darker cus i guess its on a 1000, before a simple -1 to 99 helped smoothing the edges out if it needed it.

          Also I'm getting more passthrough on bodies more now when I have to put the hue color on white and adjusting the color setting.

          Mind you I'm using passthrough on cg rcg parts.

          I like the chrome wheel tho, easier to find a color of a wall background if have to use it.

          Before I rarely didn't use it now I'm constantly using it to find white or tan colors, "most wall colors"

          I'm sure if I find a scene with a red wall it will work good.

          At that point my go to prevouis easy method before the update will not work on red...then I would use the chrome color hue and brightness settings.

          Now I'm using hue/brightness on every video along with the other settings 😔

          Ima still mess with it, tho...I'm looking for that comfort I had before the update. 🤷‍♂️

            Found a Positive!

            I notice less artifacts or ruff edges on body's and objects, but for sum reason the bodies will have spotted passthrough on them.

            Like the full body will look perfect with no ruff edges but half a face or a boob will have a passthrough hole.

            I think the the chrome circle needs white, the square inside I can chose white but it could be like a white from a color group. Might need pure white 🤷‍♂️

            I set the square inside the circle to white but it doesn't work well. Models start to get passthrough spots on there body the more I keep taking white out from the picture, but I do notice the edges of body's stay straight with no ruff edges, wouldn't have to use the opacity to smooth out ruff edges.

            But I can see how this should work, would be simple and easy but the passthrough not working well.

            It takes colors out good but its easier to find the color I want to get out but it also will take skin color out along with the color I choose.

            Does it a lot with white. 🤷‍♂️

            Positive.
            Brunette hair stays black,but the models are getting passthroughd

            Passthrough threw it just enough and you got floating hair 😏

            just wanna say thank you guys for working on this stuff. a little feedback on the update, i agree that the skin tone gets affected way more with the new algorithm. before if you created a green or blue chroma, and adjust the color range, the passthrough would remove all blues, greens, purples, blacks, greys, and whites last, before affecting skin tones. now that is not the case. It is hard to find one color that will hit all the background colors prior to affecting the skin color with the new update.

            I think one approach would allow for a layered approach for the user. where you have layer 1 (i.e. remove blues), set color & color range, save. Then set layer two, remove whites, adjust color range, then save, ect

              Guenthalg i agree that the skin tone gets affected way more with the new algorithm. before if you created a green or blue chroma, and adjust the color range, the passthrough would remove all blues, greens, purples, blacks, greys, and whites last, before affecting skin tones. now that is not the case. It is hard to find one color that will hit all the background colors prior to affecting the skin color with the new update.

              That's what I notice too, I tried first doing this method,
              Turn on passthrough
              Put brightness to max
              Then adjust the color, it look like it wants to work but like u say the pass through would effect skin, especially if there's camera light on skin, like the passthrough working to hard or something.

              Seems like more work to find a good passthrough

              I did notice brunette hair doesn't get effected like it use to. which a pluse.

              If we could keep that
              The chrome wheel
              And how the passthrough worked before
              I'd be fine with that. 👍

              Oh and i like how the bodies kinda keep a straighter edge with this new update, it's like a invisible person but the skin is passthroughd. We need skin in 😏👍

              Something needs tweaking. 🤷‍♂️

                Welp, guess this my final review

                I tried finding that comfort level I had with the previous version, but never did 🥺

                I notice brunette hair got effect way Less, that's a pluse 👍

                I noticed Bodie edges were less ruffer,, that's a pluse 👍

                But the options settings take more work now to find a good passthrough, I mean you can find one, just one scene I found got a good soild pass threw, but damn that took sum time ⏲️ 👎

                The passthrough I got on that video I could of easily got it with the previous version by my simple go to method for every video. I'm broken record

                Turn on passthrough
                Turn on saturation, didn't matter how much cus you were just basically turning it on
                Then adjust color to -10 or more and slide back down till you got a decent passthrough...

                Which i got on many videos with previous version with that quik method.

                I was trying to find a easy method with this new version but I never found it....🤷‍♂️

                Every video was like

                Just messing with the settings the whole time 🤷‍♂️

                Edit: I know this version supose to work good with black backgrounds, and will varie from video to video but the previous version worked good with many videos and with black backgrounds or green screen
                And was faster getting into a good passthrough.

                This version I can find a color fast (usually trying white walls)
                But body skin gets effect when trying to get a good pass threw.

                Hope this helps, 👍🥂😉

                Damnt, now i got give a example lol

                https://www.sexlikereal.com/scenes/charitable-donations-6601

                For example I'm trying to take the white background wall out, I put the chrom wheel on white and adjust the color range..

                #s going down are
                63
                2
                84
                300
                1000
                And thats on cg rcg part.

                It takes the white out good but the bodies get effected

                My quik and easy method with previous versions would of worked great with this scene.

                Saturation on
                Color range about 6
                Opacity 99

                Would of been in a decent passthrough quickly. 👍🥂

                Found better settings for that scene

                54
                67
                100
                339
                1000
                Cg rcg parts.

                Bodies not effected much but still took more work to find right settings.

                Previous version

                Lol, would of got me there faster. 😏

                I like that trying to give us more control and the colour wheel is a good step in the right direction, but I hate these changes. Was hyped for this update and just disappointed 🙁

                I had around 20 favourite videos with passthrough working very well and now after mucking around for 5-10mins on multiple clips, I can't for the life of me get anything to work - not even plain ones with pure black backgrounds like Noir scenes. Very painful and tedious, can't get anything to work like before - I have no idea what I'm doing now. Used to be able to try and get things working just by tweaking a few things.

                Is there anyway for me to revert to the previous SLR app version?

                Also I think the colour wheel and the whole process would be a lot better if you could:

                • select colour wheel
                • pick a colour by selecting it in the video, colour gets removed
                • repeat this as many times as you want for multiple colours

                Is this possible?

                Really pleased SLR is focusing on improving passthrough, but this feels like a step backwards @doublevr @Sandi_SLR

                  ttv34 can't get anything to work like before

                  Lol, what is dis, i can't get jiggy with dis 😂
                  Guy from next Friday movie.

                  Guess it's back to regular no passthrough for me for now, it's to much fiddling with the settings just to find a passthrough.

                  Previous version was easy and faster. 🤷‍♂️

                    Yeah the new settings don't work at all the way they're supposed to. It's awesome they added the color wheel, but when you select the color it seems to just take out everything with it. I think if you had two color wheels that would be ideal, where you can select a color to remove....and ALSO select a color to remain unaffected by any changes. That way you can remove the background, but then select the skin tone and clothing color of the model so those don't get changed.

                    Ideally these setting should be figured out and applied automatically to each individual video but that's obviously a shitload of work and effort to program I'm sure. For now though, the settings need to be a little more nuanced.

                    I also think having Saturation, Color Range and Brightness is unnessecary. There should only need to be the removed color range and falloff. I think the way it is now is just super confusing and not intuitive.

                    So am I correct in that Quest 2 with airlink or virtual desktop + DEO doesn't support passthrough modes? The app has been updated so I can see a passthrough feature now but with VD the passthrough bits just turn black. VD has no passthrough environment.