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hello team,
how can i create a curved led screen ? any soluton ?
To create a curved screen in Capture, you can build a curve by using separate individual panels. Alternatively, we recommend using the Library Object feature and selecting Cylinder hull. This object can be adjusted to match your specific needs. The built-in parametric design offers a solid foundation for developing curved screen surfaces.
If the built-in parametric forms are not sufficient for your specific needs, you can import 3D models from a wide selection of 3D file formats including glTF, SketchUp, DWG, Blender and other compatible formats.
Note: Curved surfaces are more complex as they are not just a 2D plane. This means that mapping to extents does not work as your curved pixels are no longer 'square' to the camera you are mapping from.
If you are using LED panels, or a correctly faceted curved mesh, then you can use mapping regions to get the correct content sections, and then use the 'swing to selection' function with each column selected to get a perpendicular view to a section and then map to extents. You will need to create a new region for each facet of the curve, which can get a bit tedious.
Alternatively, you can create a custom mesh in something like Blender and apply a correct UV map so that content is mapped correctly to the mesh. You can then import that to Capture (as an .obj) and simply replace the texture source being used, and it should now be correctly applied to the mesh. Do not touch the material mapping as that will break the UV map and revert to Capture's normal 2D projection method.