P3D Re: LC glasses and software

["Greg Wageman" <gjw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

From: William Menchine <menchine@xxxxxxxxxx>


>I have been struggling to get stereo images up and running on my
monitor.
>I bought a pair of Simuleyes glasses, but had problems with running the
>driver under windows NT.  I eventually got it to run in interlace mode
but
>never did find any editing programs or viewers to help in producing the
>pairs, and more of less have given up on them.

>I have a Diamond Stealth II, S220 video card with the Rendition Verite
>V2X00 chip set and a Viewsonic PT770 monitor.  My monitor runs well at
>85Hz.  It does not seem to support 120Hz. I'm running NT 4.0 on a
Pentium
>Pro machine and have tons of memory.


If you insist on running NT (as I also do), then you are pretty much
out-of-luck as far as stereo-specific editing tools go.  Neither Stereo
Image Factory nor VRex's software currently work on NT.  (SIF claims it
does, but didn't for me nor for Marvin Jones who graciously tried and
also reproduced the problem.  I haven't tried again since then, so this
may be fixed, but I don't know.)

You can, however, use the VRex glasses with NT as long as you can
manually put your display into interlaced mode, which I can.  Set
DepthCharge to use the current display resolution and to display an
interlaced image.  This isn't the ideal way to view the images, as you
are sacrificing half the vertical resolution, but it's better than
nothing.

As for editing, you can make "fake" JPS images (i.e. without the
Stereoscopic descriptor) in a program such as Photoshop LE.  Take
equal-width left and right images and butt them against each other with
the right eye image on the left (i.e. crossed), align them vertically as
necessary, crop off any extra bits on the top and bottom, and save as a
JPEG.  You can then rename the resulting file with a .JPS extension and
it will work in DepthCharge.  However you don't get any nice tools for
setting the stereo window this way.

I use the "canvas size" dialog to create a canvas that is 200% wide and
110% high around one image, and then paste the other eye's image in.
The extra 10% height is to allow room to adjust the vertical alignment.
The little black wires in my Trinitron monitor make a great vertical
alignment tool. :-)

     -Greg W. (gjw@xxxxxxxxxx)




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