The LookingGlassRenderer3D macro is a proof of concept Looking Glass "quilted" grid 16 view rendering node.
The Tools > Macro > KartaVR > Looking Glass > LookingGlassRenderer3D menu item can be used to add the node to your comp.
You can also use the Shift+Spacebar hotkey in the Flow area to display the Select Tool dialog. As you start to type in the LookingGlassRenderer3D macro node name into the Select Tool dialog, the list will be filtered down to just the node you want to add. Press the OK button to insert the node in your comp.
This image shows the controls on version 1 of the LookingGlassRenderer3D node.
To use the node you need to add the LookingGlassRenderer3D node to your Fusion comp. Connect the Fusion 3D system based 3D scene to the node's yellow input connection.
The red output connection on the LookingGlassRenderer3D node generates a rendered 2D image with a 16 view, 4x4 quilted, tiled grid image layout.
The Interaxial Cam Separation control allows you to adjust the strength of the stereo effect. This control will shift each of the cameras in the linear array apart from each other by a unified X Offset translation value on each Camera3D node.
The View 1 X Offset and View 16 X Offset controls allow you to shift the zero parallax distance in the rendered image. When you adjust the two View 1 & 16 X Offset controls, the zero parallax distance "stereo convergence" depth is adjusted automatically for all of the in-between cameras in the rig using an expression that linearlly interpolates the cropping applied to the camera views #1-15 based upon the CropArrayView1 and CropArrayView16 node's X Offset values.
If you are using Fusion Free set the LookingGlassDisplay "Image Height" to 540px / or use the S1 preset. This will make sure the rendered output fits within the 2160px maxmium output resolution of the free version of Fusion.
If you are using Fusion Free then you should set the output resolution Image Height setting to 540px to keep the output within the 3840x2160px maximum frame size.
If you are using Fusion Studio then you should set the output resolution Image Height setting to 1024px to generate a 4096x4096 image output.
The Looking Glass Quiltr app allows you to use a CLI app to add a custom set of metadata tags to your stereo linear array rendered imagery to define the X and Y image grid layout.
The Looking Glass Quiltr application is installed to:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Quiltr\QUILTR.exe
If you are curious, you can take a peek at the metadata tags that the QUILTR app embeds into your imagery. The exiftool program shows the embedded QUILTR metadata tags as:
Background Color : 65535 65535 65535
Comment : <lkg><properties vX=4 vY=4 pixelAspect=1/><info renderer="KartaVR"/></lkg>
Exiftool makes it easy to embed a Looking Glass QUILTR style comment tag in your imagery:
Green Lantern 5x9 Quilted Image:
exiftool -overwrite_original -Comment='<lkg><properties vX=5 vY=9 pixelAspect=1.3/><info renderer="KartaVR"/></lkg>' /Volumes/Media/Green_Lantern_5x9_Quilted.0001.jpg
Silver Mask 4x4 Quilted Image:
exiftool -overwrite_original -Comment='<lkg><properties vX=4 vY=4 pixelAspect=1/><info renderer="KartaVR"/></lkg>' /Volumes/Media/Silver_Mask_4x4_Quilted.0001.jpg
After creating this initial v1 macro I realized there is an even more powerful approach that could be used to align the rendered stereo images, and to precisely tune the zero parallax distance setting at the pixel level in each of the rendered multi-camera array views.
Fusion has a Locator3D node that can be placed in the 3D workspace. This node converts the actual 3D coordinates of a locator as seen in a camera's viewing frustum into 2D screen space coordinates that are aligned to the rendered image. The Locator3D node could be used with each camera view to provide an automatic stereo convergence alignment that would match an arbitrary point in the scene, and it would live update as the Interaxial Cam separation value is adjusted.