[x3d-public] status of spherical movie textures taken from 360 cameras

[John Carlson]

Using MovieTexture with canvas did not work.   Texture is better.

John

On 9/17/21 6:22 PM, John Carlson wrote:
> Updates;
>
> Mapping from .ogv to MovieTexture looks good.
>
> Drawing on a canvas mapped to a Texture looks not so good. I may try 
> to make the texture a MovieTexture
>
> Check it out!
>
> John
>
> On 9/17/21 5:46 PM, John Carlson wrote:
>> This problem has come up 2-3 times, so I decided to provide an 
>> example for everyone to work off of:
>>
>> Point 1:  Texture mapping looks really good on the sphere, but 
>> there's no animation.
>>
>> Point 2:  Canvas mapping to a sphere does not work, AFAICT
>>
>> Point 3:  Canvas drawing from video seems to work when you pause the 
>> video
>>
>> Point 4:  Video plays fine in video tag.
>>
>> I will point the open issues to this example:
>>
>> https://coderextreme.net/BigBuck/work.html
>>
>> On 9/17/21 3:43 PM, John Carlson wrote:
>>> I'm planning on getting a 360 degree camera and placing my 
>>> flowers/roses/rhodonea/orbits in a scene with a 3D textured sphere 
>>> as background.  I'm looking for some experts in the field of mapping 
>>> 360 degree textures to spheres. I might not only put scenes inside 
>>> spheres, I might deform spheres, and layer a 360-degree texture over 
>>> the deformed spheres.
>>>
>>> I've done a bit of work mapping .mp4's to spheres, so I might have a 
>>> leg up on the problem if I can find those examples.
>>>
>>> I don't know if there's still outstanding issues with x3dom and 
>>> texturing mp4s.  Here's the Big Buck Bunny Movie reference I might 
>>> use to put into a PBR Next rendering of my rhondonea: 
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Buck_Bunny.  I hope I can do both 
>>> my rhodonea as shapes and the .mp4s or whatever the 360-degree 
>>> format is in X3DOM or X_ITE.   Currently, I'm planning a Three.JS 
>>> implemenation to get PBR Next features.
>>>
>>> Hopefully none of this will be super complex, and we might get a 
>>> X3DOM or X_ITE implementation as a result of learning how to 
>>> accomplish the task in Three.JS.
>>>
>>> Anyone with spherical background experience would be wonderful, I 
>>> have 6-sided box background experience.
>>>
>>> I guess I'll go analyze the PBR Next example in Three.JS.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> John
>>>