HMD Non-distorted Mirroring

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Hello Devs,

Later this week a few game journalists are going to be visiting our studio to record a play through of our title.

I was wondering if there is a internal method for rendering an non-distorted view of the HMD on the regular monitor. My current method is to apply “HMD Mirror Mode 1” and then crop 50% of the image in post.

I noticed that Henry and Chronos have the feature to display a single non-distorted view of the game. I would love to include that feature in our title as well.

Thanks,
Vince

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Hi Vincent -

Those titles are using the undistorted single eye texture, which is HMD MirrorMode 2, instead of 1.

Hope that helps!

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Hey Nic,

What’s the best method for setting the window’s resolution? Mirror mode 2 doesn’t changed the window resolution by default and my normal method of r.setRes doesn’t affect the window size.

-Vince

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In 4.12, setting resolution will let you modify this much more easily.

In the meantime, you can configure the size of the mirror window in your game’s DefaultEngine.ini file:

[SteamVR.Settings]
WindowMirrorBoundsWidth=1280
WindowMirrorBoundsHeight=720