Track record the dominate eye in VR?

[Blast]

I record tracks in game and then use a 3rd party app to record the track once I edit the views how I want, the problem is the crosshair is offset because the ingame track recorder records the left eye and not my dominate eye. Is there a way to force the game recorder to use the other eye? Didn't see anything in the config. Side note tried using the mirror setting in steam vr but it seems to not matter what eye I set it to there.

[SCG_Fenris_Wolf]

You will need a 16:9 monitor to record VR.

 

Start your game in 2D, setup a widescreen resolution, as high as possible, fullscreen off. Get software OBS studio, you can select IL-2 there for a scene, and crop the recording screen to the right half of the screen, then record it live. You can also add sound inputs (your microphone, the game, discord) by your own choice.

[kissklas]

Or even better: get OBS and the steamVR plugin. That way you can select eye to record and get exactly the resolution you want without having to fill half the area with the other eye?

[SCG_Fenris_Wolf]

That solution is almost as awesome as that avatar which is almost as awesome as that signature. Kult.

 

P.S. Go with @kissklas solution, it's better.

Edited January 23, 2020 by SCG_Fenris_Wolf

[Blast]

The point is to not record while I'm actually playing the game from the track files so I can record from multiple views as well as turn the resolution up to maximuim settings , does OBS allow you to do that? I knew about this already and it can also be done with the steam vr mirror. But what I'm trying to do is record from the track file as it allows more control of the camera views and I can record at resolutions that are not possible running a recording software in the background let alone in VR due to how taxing VR is on the system. I can play in lower settings to get 80-90 fps then turn off VR and make the resolution in game maxed out as well as every setting in game then record it at 4k while changing my camera angles and even having picture in picture of first person perspective and external view running synchronous. OBS just records what I see through the HMD. hope my explanation clarifies what I'm trying to convey? Thanks for the advice regardless it is appreciated. There's gotta be a way to change the  eye for track recording ?

[FTC_Mephisto]

Any solution identified so far? I also play VR and then record the videos from the tracks to benefit from maximum details and resolutions. It is not really possible to just keep the head tracking from the record as during shooting the scope never aligns with the target, especially on German planes...

 

 

[SCG_Fenris_Wolf]

No and there won't be.?

 

The only solution is kissklas'.

Edited April 30, 2020 by SCG_Fenris_Wolf

[Blast]

So only solution, because kissklas's and Fenris solution isn't a solution but an inferior alternative(not trying to sound snarky, just stating matter of factly), is to learn to shoot with my left eye and not my right. Worth it if your a content creator I guess and want very high quality and not dial back settings for OBS to run in the background and play in VR at the same time. I'm not a content creator but prefer to have maximum performance while playing in VR and the ability to record at ultra graphics settings and change camera views as well which are not possible with OBS.

Edited August 7, 2020 by Blast

[SCG_Fenris_Wolf]

This is the wrong forums for a real solution. We cannot code and recompile. You need to ask the Devs for this. It's literally one tag to change for them in the openVR plugin - I had asked but the response was that it had been asked before to cast two eyes instead of one big screen (it was one normal view before, but centered on left viewport too) - I to this day do not know who the hell would demand this.

 

Unfathomable why.

 

We only need the right hand side viewport and nothing else - to properly record VR, and make proper YouTube videos out of this. Which could draw in new players as well. The DCS community is very creative on that platform, ours less so.

Edited August 7, 2020 by SCG_Fenris_Wolf

[Drano]

If I understand this you want to use the in cockpit views in VR and also the exterior camera controls making a video. Both recordings can be accomplished with OBS, one live, one post-flight.

 

I use a RiftS and when recording in VR I set up oculus mirror to display only the right eye. In IL2 I have my head position set so that I'm looking straight thru the sight with my right eye in VR. I set up oculus mirror as a window capture source in OBS and record my cockpit views with that, now with a centered gunsight. Why not just do a game capture? Because in VR IL2 displays both eyes in the side by side display. That's no good for game capture. So a window capture of oculus mirror is the way to go. That's the live part. 

 

Simultaneously while recording your flight with OBS, record a track. This will be, for your purposes, useless for the cockpit views but will give you everything else you're looking for to make the rest of your vid post-flight.

 

Back to OBS. Set up a game capture source (you're now in 2D with a single full screen view so it looks right) for IL2 and use that to record your tracks as you're playing them back. You can make clips of different camera angles as you like. Just remember to start and stop OBS recording as you go. 

 

Now you have all these different video clips from the same flight! You'll have to put them together in some video editing software to make a single video from them. Just use the cockpit view as the primary so you can keep track of the time line. 

 

Anyway, that's how you'd do it. Not exactly easy and certainly time consuming but it can be done! The offset VR cockpit views when back in 2D do make this a bit harder!