Multiscreen Calibration UI

Section 5. Multiscreen Calibration UI

The calibration screen of the ARFX Multiscreen Camera differs greatly from the base ARFX Camera. The hotkeys remain the same, but now it shows information regarding view segments, their angles, and position data.

The calibration screen for this camera is INCREDIBLY important.

Pressing the Tab or Face Button Left will open this menu. Pressing the same button will turn off the background blur, and pressing it a third time will disable Calibration mode. To calibrate, press C or Face Button Down after aligning your calibration tracker to the screen's red crosshairs.

Section 5.1 The Views

Each view is visualized with separate green bars to indicate their margins.

Within them is a single large green number to indicate their index.

Below that in blue text is their rotation from the origin segment.

Section 5.2 Position and Tracking Data Display

The information at the bottom of the screen is for two separate things.

The top white information is the current calibration position and rotation that is being used. Whenever you calibrate, this information will update accordingly.

The larger yellow information is the calibration tracker’s current position and rotation.

Section 5.3 The Grid

The gird is used to help verify that your segment angles are properly aligned. With the background unblurred (press tab or Face Button Left again to do this), you should be able to verify your alignment either through your physical camera or your own perspective. You may need to readjust these angles by either modifying the model if it was imported or modifying the View Generator list to recreate the Views list.

Section 5.4 Calibration Tracker

The little green indicator is not just for indicating the orientation of your calibration tracker!

How ARFX is calibrated depends entirely on how your calibration tracker is oriented and this drawn wireframe indicator is supposed to help orientate it.

The indicator head-on. Notice the inner triangle!

To determine the up axis, the inner triangle must be facing up.

The red arrow indicates that the Z-axis line is longer.

Rotating the tracker will show the longer Z-axis line that pierces through the center of the indicator. The longer line is the forward axis (or +Z-axis) and is the side that must face your physical screen.

Of course, not everyone has a second separate tracker to use for calibration, so there are ways to modify your tracking orientations to fit your needs. But this will not be covered here. For more information, please visit the Tracking section of the Knowledge Base.

Section 5.5 How to Adjust the Segment Widths

Please refer to  Multi_EditorUI  for an amazingly easy method to manually adjust each segment to better fit your screen.