The collection of macros by Andrew Hazelden for simplifying the creation of VR content in Blackmagic Design’s Fusion has been updated. New features include:
- “Generate UV Pass in PTGui” script that automates the process of creating a set of UV pass warping maps from a PTGui Pro project file. This script allows Fusion to use a node based workflow to stitch panoramic 360° multi-camera rig imagery.
- The PanoView GUI makes it easy to send your immersive imagery to an Oculus Rift or HTC Vive HMD. You can now send panoramic imagery from Fusion to a desktop panoramic 360° media viewer or an HMD with a single keypress.
- The “Send Media” scripts make is easy to pass media from Fusion to the rest of your design software like Adobe CC, Affinity Photo & Designer, Photomatix Pro, TouchDesigner, PTGui, and Autopano Pro.
- “Open 360 Video Metadata Tool” script will launch the YouTube 360 / Facebook 360 spatial media metadata embedding program. This cuts down the time required to prepare a finished VR movie for delivery to online video platforms.
- “Convert Movies to Image Sequences” script lets you extract image sequences and audio files from a folder of movies. This is handy if you want to do challenging compositing tasks with footage sourced from video production formats like MP4 videos, QuickTime ProRes, Matroska MKV, or HVEC H.265 compressed footage inside of Fusion.
- The new 360° environment map based panoramic texture baking macros named “Angular2MeshUV”, “CubicFaces2MeshUV”, and “Equirectangular2MeshUV” allow you to convert and transform your panoramic imagery into any image projection imaginable. It works with your movies, HDRI imagery, and image sequences and uses the UV layout of a user defined FBX, OBJ, DAE, 3DS, or Alembic format polygon mesh to control the final image re-projection.
- The new “CubicFaces2DefishedRectangular” and “CubicFacesStereo2DefishedRectangularStereo” macros allow you to take panoramic cubic imagery and extract a regular 16:9 or 4:3 style video frame that can be shown on a TV or computer monitor in either a mono 2D or stereo 3D format.
- A collection of panoramic 360° mesh resources were added to allow for in-scene Fusion playback and review of custom image projections.
- A new “UVPassFromRGBImageOnDisk” node was created that does the UV pass warping inline in the composite by loading the UV image as an attribute inside the node instead of using a separate loader node for accessing the imagery. This node compliments the existing “UVPassFromRGBImage” node to allow for more flexibility in how you structure your comps.
- There are now 27 Fusion example compositing project files included that give practical examples of node based panoramic 360 degree compositing workflows. There is a new roller coaster example scene that is rendered by Fusion’s 3D animation system into the equirectangular, fulldome, and cubic panoramic image projections.
Domemaster Fusion Macros v2.0 is priced at $249 for a single user license. Existing version 1.0 customers can upgrade for $99. More on Andrew Hazelden’s website.
