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  • FEEDBACK REQUESTED: Composite/CGI backgrounds for Passthrough scenes

It's hard to fit your PT models into CGI scenes convincingly because your lighting is so flat, all coming from the front, sort of like a ring light effect but using several strip lights I think. It doesn't look terrible, but it's not "soft" (big diffused key light) like traditional high end / glamor work, there are hot spots and specular highlights typical of direct lighting, and it lacks shape and direction. So wherever you put the models will have inconsistent lighting. Have you guys tried softer light, with a little more direction? Is there no room for a larger diffused light in that little studio or did it complicate the masking? It's not really an issue for PT, where the wow factor overrides everything, but it's not as sexy as it could be.

I want exotic scenes -

Loads of people write on this forum about how they want exotic and adventurous sex with exotic and pervy girls.
I want ordinary sex with beautiful women, but I want the locations to be incredible and wild. If you want some boring bedroom, you can always go back to the passthrough option

    Thinking of public places (crowd, public transport), maybe star wars inspired, army, police, etc

    catflap Nothing wrong with exotic scenes. These backgrounds were not exotic though, they were fantastical. No real place, no matter how exotic, looks like that. You can see on the first glance that it's CGI and THAT is my issue.

      Library - if animation possible, people walking behind the book shelf (visible in the gaps)

      Sauna room

      Cinema

      Basketball court

      Japanese night-time alley rain

      Public shower room

      Public changing room

      One day will it be possible to record real-life backgrounds with VR camera and add to pass-through videos?

      E.g. actors walking through the scene background/windows, trees blowing in the wind, etc.

      This is a great alternative to outdoor scenes that tend to flood light and make the scene blurry. Would also love this is like dungeon, dark, club kind of scenes.

      In my opinion the magic of the CG background is giving the crew the best lighting for the most crisp picture you can get in VR and slap it with any background/set that serves the storyline 😊

      doublevr

      On the altar of an aztek temple
      In a glass cage suspended over a city
      In a tent in the pouring rain
      In a TV studio
      In a ferris wheel basket at a carnival
      On the deck of a sailboat
      In a viking feast hall
      On a city beach at night
      In the post office sorting room
      In the ruins of pripyat (chernobyl)

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        thanks for ideas. We have some of them on the list already but write down the rest to realize future scenes basen on this.

        I attach photos from new upcoming scene.

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        g90ak does the most amazing upscales with TopazAI. Have you considered upscaling old but popular HD scenes to 6K or 8K?

        @doublevr: To improve your scenes for a more organic feeling,you have to tweak the follwings things:
        1: Greenspill/ Spill Suppression. The skintone looks sometimes wrong. Especially in the shadow values.

        1. White balance: You have to match the white/ mid and black values of the FG-Eements to the Background-Image.
        2. For more hair-details, you have to use soft keys

        Thats the basic and most important stuff. I don't want to get lost in the details.

        justsomedude101

            Loving the CGI backgrounds -
            I do wish you could release them at the same time as their passthrough equivalent.

            You have a similar problem to what I see in VREdging - the first video comes out (in your case with the grey background) but I just feel I am waiting a few more weeks for the CGI version and I dont know whether I should dive in and watch right away or wait for something which (for me) is better

              catflap Loving the CGI backgrounds -
              I do wish you could release them at the same time as their passthrough equivalent.

              I believe so far it's mostly been older AR/Passthrough scenes chosen since they feature the male actor without the green suit, which makes more sense for users who watch with the CGI background.

              Though agreed personally - some day it would definitely be great if it could get to the point of same-day release. Just not sure how doable it is currently.