{"id":957,"date":"2022-02-20T23:12:45","date_gmt":"2022-02-20T23:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lucyestela.com\/dev\/?p=957"},"modified":"2022-03-02T22:38:38","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T22:38:38","slug":"mhc-lighting-presets-hololens2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lucyestela.com\/dev\/unreal\/mhc-lighting-presets-hololens2\/","title":{"rendered":"MHC Lighting Presets & Hololens2"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In my research project with Lucy Bryant of the UTS Speech Pathology Department we are seeing how viable it is to use Epic Unreal’s Metahumans in combination with the  Hololens 2 for therapy. <\/p>\n

Previous apps that have run on headsets, while intriguing and interesting for patients, have had the feedback that the ‘uncanny valley<\/a>‘ feeling is distracting and detrimental to the therapy outcomes.<\/p>\n

So when I came across Epic Game’s Metahuman Creator<\/a> I immediately realised they could be a viable option for use in therapy. Epic have been really supportive and have provided us with a grant to make a Hololens 2 experience. However I quickly realised that I knew nothing about lighting theory (being just a coding nerd) and no matter what I did nothing looked right. <\/p>\n

Thankfully, Epic had released a set of MHC lighting presets<\/a> specifically designed by Greig Fraser (Dune)<\/em> for use in the Unreal Engine. After playing around with them I found major improvements in the rendering of my Metahumans by using the Split setup.<\/p>\n

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Because I’m working with the Hololens, I duplicated the lighting setup into my current Unreal file so that I could immediately test in the Hololens. When copying them across I did have to make some very minor adjustments to a couple of settings to replicate the look more closely. I’ll make a note of those below.<\/p>\n

I replicated the main lights but I didn’t copy across the Airglow or the PostProcessVolume. You’ll just have to play around with your scene to see what is necessary and what runs well.<\/p>\n

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There was no change to the AmbientLight<\/p>\n

BackgroundLight had a slight change in Temperature<\/p>\n

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FillSpotLight1 had a change in Intensity<\/p>\n

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FillSpotLight2 had a change in Intensity<\/p>\n

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In my research project with Lucy Bryant of the UTS Speech Pathology Department we are seeing how viable it is to use Epic Unreal’s Metahumans in combination with the  Hololens 2 for therapy.  Previous apps that have run on headsets, while intriguing and interesting for patients, have had the feedback that the ‘uncanny valley‘ feeling … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","footnotes":""},"categories":[60,114,59],"tags":[119,118,117],"class_list":["post-957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hololens-2","category-metahuman","category-unreal","tag-epic-unreal","tag-metahumans","tag-mhc-lighting-presets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucyestela.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucyestela.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucyestela.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucyestela.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucyestela.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=957"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lucyestela.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":980,"href":"https:\/\/lucyestela.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions\/980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucyestela.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucyestela.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucyestela.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}