VaM 1.x If you have an external web camera can you put yourself in the game in passthrough using mirror or screen?

[Battletoad08]

Since passthrough can be in your environment is there anyway to use like an in game mirror to display what's on an external web camera? Like how you make the ingame screens play something off your pc, can you make an ingame screen show live video feed from the webcam placing you in the game somehow? Like you'd be able to see yourself on one of those in game screens/mirrors.

Thanks for any ideas.

 

[hazmhox]

You could at best get some kind of mirror. And yes you could probably code a plugin to get a live feed from a server running on a specific port.
It would require a plugin that grabs the feed, send it to a render texture ( there are probably several ways to approach that ) and put that render texture somewhere.

It will probably be a quite big overhead, and the latency might be insanely bad.

 

[atani]

I would like to point out that you can also make yourself as a VAM person. I made one of myself and it doesn't need to be a good lookalike work to give a feeling it's you in there as a VAM person.
Having a VAM copy in there also can give you interesting ideas and experiments you w/could never try otherwise.
Give it a try.

Even when I'm possessing the male person, I find it useful to use my "copy" as the typical VAM males don't match that much my 40s sedentary life figure so much

 

[Clownmug]

If this is idea intended for vr, then the app below might help. It can use headset camera or an external camera. You can create a 3D camera box in the app and align it to a mirror or whatever object in VaM. It would move with headset tracking and stay aligned as long as you avoid thumbstick movement or teleporting.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1844610/Reality_Mixer__Mixed_Reality_for_VR_headsets/

 

[Battletoad08]

Thanks guys, I found a webcam plugin but I didnt think about it being a floating square of my space, I dont know why I was thinking it would cut me out from the background haha.

VAMcam - Plugins + Scripts -

VAMcam A plugin for VAM created by VeeRifter DESCRIPTION This is a plugin to display the output from a PC's webcam on a screen created inside VAM. Also supports virtual webcam applications such as FineCam, AlterCam, WeCam, VCam, and...

hub.virtamate.com

I would like to point out that you can also make yourself as a VAM person. I made one of myself and it doesn't need to be a good lookalike work to give a feeling it's you in there as a VAM person.
Having a VAM copy in there also can give you interesting ideas and experiments you w/could never try otherwise.
Give it a try.

Even when I'm possessing the male person, I find it useful to use my "copy" as the typical VAM males don't match that much my 40s sedentary life figure so much

Id try that but it would throw off the passthrough immuration I think. The in game models obviously arent like real life but if you add both it remove the illusion that youre really there.

 

[hazmhox]

I dont know why I was thinking it would cut me out from the background haha.

Well! technically you could by doing a reverse passthru, you'd be in a room full of green and remove the green
But that would require some quite big computation power in real time haha.