Animation Length Poll
Been a while since I thought about this, but in the past it's come up with a couple of you and I see the tides naturally shifting so figured I'd run it by you guys for a consensus.
All VR animations have a goal of 3 minutes and that's been for a very specific reason. Initially, back when i originally shifted to video over unity content that's what people seemed to want. Also, after testing "looping" instead video players on the quest I noticed a delay between the stop and start of the animation. That was immersion breaking, so instead of manual looping through the video player, having built into the animation seems like the best way to give more time for the animation to run.
With changes the workflow affecting file sizes, the current 4k and 8k paired releases, changes to hardware, a huge increase in the library size, and ppl have different preferences for managing content I've opened things up super wide for customization. We have the community request channel for requesting shorter versions, different resolutions, etc. and it's getting some use, but if we need to make a more global change I'm open to that.
I'll leave the poll open until the end of next weekend, but I'm hoping most of the votes come in this weekend and base don the numbers I'll likely be leaning towards your decision based on when the bulk responses come in / taper off.
Any comments, complaints or things I didn't mentioned that you want to ask or add into consideration feel free to write it on this post. This is the one to do it on instead of the release notification posts. We'll even open it up to unrelated stuff, go wild, but constructive criticism please. If its not actionable, it'll probably be difficult to act on lol.
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Imo if it's just a loop, one loop, if it's fitting it can be different characters to hit that 3m, if it's not a loop pls make longer, and my personal request tune down the background music or remove completely
Yeah, the background music breaks immersion a lot of the time. Simple ambient sounds would be fine, like rain on the window, wind through trees, murmuring out in a hallway, etc.
Where's that community request channel for shorter versions? It would probably work better if you just uploaded both the 3 minute and the single loop version - then you could make both kinds of people happy at the same time.
At top you click on chats and then the Alt Version Requests Community Listing or using the new system it might be on your overall chats/messages section on the left sidebar. As far as doing both, that a significant amount amount of overhead in render time and file storage, which is why when I did bump up to 8k, I kept the 4k, but didn't add a bunch of others like 2k for older hardware and 6k for ppl that couldn't run 8k, but left if open to special request for those versions. I'll keep that in mind though. If the response is fairly split I may give it a shot for a couple months and keep an eye on the download numbers before making it a permanent inclusion on all releases.