ALAN - How to set up a "Virtual Screen"

Qimera Corp
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Once we've selected the mesh where the video will be played, we need to find the appropriate texture within the corresponding ***"Material slot"***. 1. Click on the mesh (***"ScreenC"*** in this case). 2. Click on ***"None"*** to open the list of materials and search for the appropriate material (in this case ***"Material 0"***).

We need to activate the ***"As virtual screen"*** box to access some advanced settings.

We can assign different types of sources: 1. [[Still Image]] 2. [[Internal]] 3. [[External]] 4. [[Image Sequences]]

[[STILL IMAGE]] 1. Scroll down the menu until you find the ***"Screen Parameters Editor"*** module and choose ***"Still Image"*** in the source. 2. [[Click on ]]***"None"*** in the ***"Texture Input"*** search bar. 3. When the menu of all the textures in the project appears, [[select]] the desired one.

Once you have chosen the texture, [[click on]] ***"Load Page"*** to load the texture (make sure "***Live Update"*** is [[turned on]] to see the changes in real time).

We can access several parameters to fine-tune our image. 1. ***Tiling*** 2. ***Move*** 3. ***Color Luminance*** 4. ***Material Modes*** If we change the ***"Shading Model"*** from ***"Unlit"*** to ***"Lit",*** our screen will not be affected by the lights in the virtual space. 5. ***Mesh Options*** We can also activate ***"Sharp"*** to achieve better video quality.

We can add different pages to assign different ***source*** types.

[[INTERNAL]] 1. Click on ***"Add Page".*** 2. Click on the new page we just created (***"Page 1"*** in this case) and click on ***"Load page"*** to load it. 3. We chose the ***"Internal"*** source. 4. To assign the texture we made previously, click on ***"None"*** in the ***"Media Texture"*** search bar. [How to create a media texture](https://scribehow.com/viewer/How_to_create_a_Media_texture__83AuHBo4TmSSlA3nOkifDw?referrer=documents)

We choose the desired texture (we can search in the bar by name to filter between textures).

Virtual screens have different types of transitions to change pages. 1. Click on "***Transitions"*** to display the menu. 2. We chose ***"Screen Fade"*** which fits better in this type of cases.

[[EXTERNAL]]

[[IMAGE SEQUENCES]]