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Locatable camera problems while capturing black holograms?

Hey,

I have the locatable camera mixed reality capture working within my app by following this tutorial https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/windowsholographic-videocapture.html.

I have set hologram capture to true and hologramOpacity to 1.0f. However the issue arises with holograms that should ideally clear to black. They are appearing as solid black in my final video capture. I need the black to be transparent so that I create a dark box of sorts. While it clears correctly while I am viewing it in the hololens I need it to also clear in the final mixed reality capture. Is there any workaround for this or parameter I can set?

Answers

  • trzytrzy ✭✭✭

    Black is the new black, man.

    There's nothing magical about the color black on HoloLens. It renders as black in the frame buffer, which is what you are seeing in the mixed reality capture. Now, the HoloLens's physical display works by projecting light that then reflects back into your eye. There's no such thing as black light, so the value 0 ends up displaying nothing.

    If you want it to be transparent, use a shader/material that supports transparency and set the alpha channel of the transparent region to 0 (full transparency).

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