Hello,
I’ve created a camera with a Panini effect that works well in my viewport and when I render a sequence and output it with the render queue.
But, I want to export the depth too. Everything renders and exports well, but my depth output doesn’t have the Panini distortion.
I can’t find where I made a mistake.
If somebody knows where I’m wrong, thanks for your help.
Have you tried enabling Allow custom depth writes in the material?
It off by default since a couple of versions. Maybe it’s needed to write the distortion information? It’s a bit of a shot in the dark but some post process materials break without it on.
I’ve activated it in my Depth material but that doesn’t solve my problem.
And I cannot activate it on Panini because it’s a blueprint command.
If there is another solution than Panini to have a “fisheye” effect on my camera without using more than 1 camera, I take this solution with pleasure!
Would this get you to a similar end goal?
Sadly, I already used this method to create my effect.
But, this result in a black output for the render sequence and a Depth sequence without distortion in the output.
And what bothers me is that in the viewport on Buffer visualisation, there are no distortions, except in Lit view.
The buffer visualisation looks correct as you are using post process effects.
Therefore Unreal Engine provides a optional post processing pass that attempt to fix this issue using a Panini While applying your panini you’ll see that with buffer visualisation even the individual buffer viewports are distorted as the effect is applied after and to your complete viewport.
Thank you !
Now it works.
But we’r not going to use these methods. Indeed, we need to have a visually and physically correct perspective. The passes, only distort a rendering
We need an equivalent of a 180° lens.
Using raytracing rendering to get just optical flow and depth would have been perfect. We don’t want a cubemap stitch either.
Maybe, if you don’t have the solution, we will post another post in this direction.
