Recording in VR

[=TF=Kaiza]

G'day all, 

 

so I have been playing around with various means of recording some action from multiplayer in VR, but am yet to find a perfect solution.

 

At first I attempted to record via Geforce Experience, but of course that records both eyes and by the time you cut it down the resolution is too low.

 

Second attempt was recording the audio on teamspeak and then combining it with a track. I thought this was going to work well, however the track records the view of the left eye. This somewhat ruins the footage in dogfights as being right eye dominant I aim with my right and the left cannot see the gun sight.

 

Third attempt was to record Oculus Mirror using Geforce Experience, however that records whichever window is on top, and IL2 must be on top or your mouse etc will not function.

 

So where I have ended up is running Oculus Mirror as well as OBS as you can specify which window to record in OBS. This solution, however, is very taxing on the video card. Smaller issues include the sides of the frame being clipped during panning, and because the display is a normal aspect ratio it cuts the top and bottom of the real view off entirely. In dogfights the bandit is often at the top of the view so is missed in the recording (I not sure there will ever be a tidy solution to this particular issue).

 

I am interested to hear whether anyone else has found a better solution to get some good footage? Cheers

[peregrine7]

9 hours ago, Kaiza said:

So where I have ended up is running Oculus Mirror as well as OBS as you can specify which window to record in OBS. This solution, however, is very taxing on the video card.

 

This is the best realtime solution I've come up with as well. But I don't have the hardware to actually do it.

My best solution is to use the track and mix in 3rd person / cinematic views whenever the first person limitations get in the way.

(Also pro-tip F1 and CtrlF1 do different things in the track, CtrlF1 is more zoomed out but still doesn't show everything I see in VR. There doesn't seem to be any way to change the FOV whilst watching recordings, unless I've missed something.)

[kalbuth]

For steamVR based games I use OBS and this obs plugin : https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/openvr-input-plugin.534/

It works fine

[=TF=Kaiza]

Great, thanks. I'll check it out.