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xeon wrote:

Well…if you are doing this as an iOS app and not for use in a browser things can be a little different. I don’t believe V3D has any puzzles that really let you handle memory management. However if you are building your own app, I am sure you can just call the video file that is stored locally when the app is installed. iOS will handle the full screen / video issue as it always does. But if you do it in Verge the video plane will only be the size you make it relative to the aspect ratio the device is in and based on proximity to camera.

As an example if you make the video screen fit your camera in 16:9 ratio and your application is responsive and the user rotates the screen the video played in verge will remain 16:9 and then show your v3d background or HDR environment map as it letter boxes the video.
You could detect if the scene is rotated and use a different plane for video play back if desired or rotate the existing plane forcing the user to stay in landscape.

Good luck

Thank you again so much.

So as long as it is an iOS app that I am creating calling the video uses the same amount of processing power whether its on a plane or playing as its own full screen video player? Since the video is locally stored on their device?

Is there any difference in quality with a video playing on a plane? Im assuming the rest of the lighting in the 3d scene would affect the video plane?

Do you happen to know the puzzle for iOS when it is rotated? Or a link on where it would be? Im new and in over my head enough to where sometimes the wording of what to search is hard to figure out?

Thank you again!!

First of all thank you, I appreciate how much support the verge team provides to lost beginners like myself.

1. Which way is more optimal for performance as a phone app? A video overlay via verge html video puzzle, or via Webflow embed? The videos would fill the screen, play, and then disappear and return back to the 3D world camera.

Also I am trying to do the full screen overlay within verge 3d via html video puzzle as you suggested. But I can’t tell how to make the video play with verge 3d puzzles. Most of the documentation/app template is geared towards if you are applying the video as a texture to an object not as a full screen overlay. *Theres an image attached below related to this question and the next few.*

2. When I test my app on an actual iPhone, it is already hardly loading, despite using LZMA upon blender export. The scene is about 60k vertices and I’ve yet to add the ten minutes of video. There is hardly any lighting other than building textures with emission shaders baked in blender. I am not sure what I am doing wrong. It constantly refreshes the favicon load at 100%, or loads with missing textures.

3. So verge is essentially writing the javascript for me and after it leaves verge its treated like normal JS?

4. I am attempting to use the variables and procedures to do as you suggested, I have read a few different forums but unfortunately cannot figure it out. Do these puzzles look correct (see attached image)

Again THANK YOU, hopefully you have some time to get to this, but I understand these are lengthy questions. I want this app to be something unique and likely bit off more than my skill allows, but it looks too cool to stop now lol.

Thank you. I thought if “look at” is left empty the camera would stay oriented the same and fly to the object.

As for sound, am I supposed to host it elsewhere or just in the application folder on my cpu? I’m not sure why the file cannot be found, I downloaded the verge free apps and followed the same folder structure for sounds.

In the user manual it says sounds take awhile to load and to put them in the init tab. Does that mean it loads them while the user loads the app?

Again apologies, being new to coding its often hard to know the terminology I am reading, or the wording to search the exact issues.