the starting position is important, if the video projector is too far away (example: 180° rotation), the calibrator will not be able to calibrate.
                    
The principle of the calibration is to match 3D points in the stage to 2D point placed in the 2D Space of the video projector
                    
                    Create the Point Locator
                    For that you need the best 3D model representing the surface you want to video map.
                    On the surface you will create 
Point Locator3D coordinate used as the reference for calibration
                     with one of this 2 options:
                    
                      - 
                        with a right click on the locators of the 3D object in the element tree   
 
- 
                        in edit mode and with a Ctrl+Click on the surface with the 3D object selected in the element tree   
 
 
                    
                    Create the 2D point
                    To create the 2D point in the 
                    Video Projector
                    Virtual video projectors of Smode stage, used for real life mapping, usually directly connected to the Outputs
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                     viewport you can switch to the dual view workspace and select the 
                    Stage Elements Group
                    Group multiple stage elements together
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                     and the 
                    Video Projector
                    Virtual video projectors of Smode stage, used for real life mapping, usually directly connected to the Outputs
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                     stage processor.
                    
                      Activate the 
Mouse Crossenable it in the VP viewport tool bar and use it to point in the video projector output, and display the calibration point
                       to see the points on your output
                    
Now you have multiple options to create the points:
                    
                      - 
                        If your 
                        Video Projector
                        Virtual video projectors of Smode stage, used for real life mapping, usually directly connected to the Outputs
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                         see the points that you want to create, right click on it and press 
                        
                          Create Visible Surface Locators
                          
 
- 
                        With the edit mode in the 
                        Video Projector
                        Virtual video projectors of Smode stage, used for real life mapping, usually directly connected to the Outputs
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                          viewport, select one Point Locator3D coordinate used as the reference for calibration
                         in the element tree and the 
                        Video Projector
                        Virtual video projectors of Smode stage, used for real life mapping, usually directly connected to the Outputs
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                         and use Ctrl+Click in the 
                        Video Projector
                        Virtual video projectors of Smode stage, used for real life mapping, usually directly connected to the Outputs
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                          viewport to create a point at the cursor position   
 
 
                    
                    Calibrate
                    With 3D Point and 2D Point you can use a 
                    Video Projector Calibrator
                    This automatically Adjusts the Video Projector placement according to Point Locator and Video Projector Calibration points
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                    You can calibrate by enabling the boolean
 
                    
                    If the calibration is not good: Check the error of the points in 
                    Video Projector Calibration
                    List of Point Locator in the scope of the Video Projector
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                     if one is too high than the rest of them. Check if it's correctly placed.
 
                    
                   
                
                Last topic update:28/08/2024