VR mirror black mask remove?

[Japo32]

I have seen that in VR there is a black mask now I suppose to increase performance. The problem is that I am capturing with OBS the mirror and now a good part of the capture area is with that mask. 

Considering that the pixel density in the mirror is not good enough for OBS, is there a way to remove that FX mask in the mirror?

 

Thanks!

 

https://gyazo.com/f75cc1ff91f2a3365681e7b54ecd4a09

Edited April 14, 2021 by Japo32

[Japo32]

there is a crop to rectangle in VR options that don't do anything, and a render mirror VR with default DCS resolution, that renders the VR Mirror with the full resolution of the monitor, but the problem is that it deformates the image horizontally. 

I hope there is a way to remove the mask, or fix the deformation issue if render full window.

Edited April 14, 2021 by Japo32

[Japo32]

To let you understand the problem, here is the new capture area in OBS. Much less, when already the Windows Reality Portal users (Reverb G2) has problems with pixel density in mirror, as we do not have the great oculus mirror (our WRP mirror is poor with stutters, and steam mirror gives 1/2 of performance you have in the goggles.

 

 

[mx22]

How did you enable the mask? At least by default, I don't have one enabled and get the whole right/left eye render.

[Mover]

13 minutes ago, mx22 said:

How did you enable the mask? At least by default, I don't have one enabled and get the whole right/left eye render.

It's on by default in 2.7 on mine.  Can't turn it off.

[Japo32]

I didn't do anything. It just appears.. and I didn't install any shader. You have to be inside a flight. The menus don't show any mask.

Edited April 14, 2021 by Japo32

[Japo32]

I have found this shader:

 

\DCS World\Bazar\shaders\HMDMask.fx 

I cannot remove it as it is needed to be loaded and I am trying to understand it but I am not programmer so I cannot deactivate it. Maybe someone find the way to switch if off. 

Other thing is if it could pass the IC multiplayer.

[mx22]

Ahh yes, sorry I was looking at the menus - I thought it would work like the VR mod previously and would render mask everywhere...

[Japo32]

Great! I removed the mask!! :)))

You have to edit the HMDMask.fx and modify the line:

 

 

float4 vsOctagonMask(in float2 pos:POSITION0): SV_POSITION0
{
    return float4(pos, 1, 1);
}

 

to

 

float4 vsOctagonMask(in float2 pos:POSITION0): SV_POSITION0
{
    return float4(pos, 0.1, 0.1);
}

 

 

and save.

 

it seems to pass IC (has to make more testings here)

[Mover]

You rock! Thanks!

[Ziptie]

Also a big THANK YOU!

I had the same issue (although my "border" was blue).

 

Your modification of line in the .lua file worked for me.  Guessing they will fix this in the future.  Clouds are still very jittery for me, but baby steps I suppose.  I'm sure they'll all be fixed when I get back in a few months.

 

 

Cheers,

 

Ziptie 

[=Panther=]

Thanks, will need this as I tweak my setup this week. 

[speed-of-heat]

I was just going to report the same issue

11 hours ago, Japo32 said:

Great! I removed the mask!! :)))

You have to edit the HMDMask.fx and modify the line:

 

 

float4 vsOctagonMask(in float2 pos:POSITION0): SV_POSITION0
{
    return float4(pos, 1, 1);
}

 

to

 

float4 vsOctagonMask(in float2 pos:POSITION0): SV_POSITION0
{
    return float4(pos, 0.1, 0.1);
}

 

 

and save.

 

it seems to pass IC (has to make more testings here)

does this remove the mask just from the 2d- mirror or from the VR implementation as well ? 

[some1]

Most likely from vr too. There's no point in having a mask that's only in 2d. It's part of the rendering process, to save a few clicks of GPU utilisation.

[ShaunX]

I don't see a mask in VR at all. Same square mirror, or if I go full screen the mirror fills my display.

 

Is it worth me turning it on and if so, how do I do it ?

[Japo32]

Mask won't come on menus... only when flying.

Edited April 15, 2021 by Japo32

[ShaunX]

I don't see a mask, flying or not

[Japo32]

ckeckout if you have the file: HMDMask.fx in the bazar/shader folder. If you don't see it in the MIRROR in the monitor, then you have a problem, as it should give you better performance (unless you want to remove as me, because recording)

[ShaunX]

I do have that file in the bazar/shaders folder

 

Is it anything to do with this ?

 

 

 

 

[Japo32]

no.. all is fine as it is... then if you don't see it, you have a bug.

[dburne]

Yep I certainly see it on monitor when flying in VR.

[ShaunX]

Thanks, I'll report it (Not that I actually need an FPS boost, it's running as well as in 2.5.6)

 

 

[Hammer]

On 4/14/2021 at 11:08 AM, Mover said:

It's on by default in 2.7 on mine.  Can't turn it off.

 

On 4/14/2021 at 10:54 AM, mx22 said:

How did you enable the mask? At least by default, I don't have one enabled and get the whole right/left eye render.

Go to the VR tab and in the bottom left corner there is a drop down box below Use DCS resolution that says both eyes, left, eye or right eye as a choice. Switch it to let or right eye. That should change the box to a single display instead of side by side on the desktop.

Edited April 22, 2021 by Hammer

[Doc3908]

Any news on getting the VR mask selectively enabled/disabled? Up until now, with every new update I've had to edit the HMDMask.fx file as was suggested earlier in the thread. That worked just fine until this latest update. Now, changing the return value of the vsOctagonMask method, I started getting the "Pure server required" message when trying to connect to MP. Put the return values back to 1, 1, and MP works again, but the silly VR mask is on again. Argh!!

[Gryzor]

Any fix just to remove the white-blue pciture (square) outside the mask?