Hi,
I’m glad that it worked. 
It looks like you entered 1920 x 1080 in the Render to canvas node, which I’m not sure its correct. The x & y signify top left corner not the width and height. So in most cases they are both set to 0.
Try connecting a simple Color to texture node to Render to canvas node to test whether the render to canvas is done correctly.
Please also make sure that in the Render to canvas node, parent canvas has to be selected in its properties on the right.
The Color to texture node works!
So there must be some problem with communication between UE4 and LightAct.
Thanks a lot for your quick replies!
Hi,
Can you try something for me?
If you insert a Texture invert node as shown below
Does the texture appear (please make sure only A is selected)? Because from the fact that there is 1920 x 1080 px written below Render to canvas node it seems the texture is coming from UE4 but the alpha is 0.
If the above suggestion solved your problem then you probably have SceneColor (HDR) in RGB, Inv Opacity in A selected in the properties of your Scene capture component in UE4.
Cheers,
M
Sadly it is still black…
Interesting.
If you want, feel free to send over the .la project file so I can have a look.
Some other things to check:
The problem is in the UE4, the Spout Demo Receiver receives the black screen too.
Ok, so my project is in the newest UE - 4.20.3. Should I go to 4.19?
Answering your question - when I play with with the checkboxes the Canvas changes his color - with checked Red - it’s Red etc.
OK, I see.
I’m successfully running UE 4.20.2, so I doubt that spout stopped working in UE 4.20.3.
Which UE4 project are you running? Did you try with the UE4 sample project available on our website or did you create one from scratch?
I’m running on my own scratch. I cannot open the Sample Project in Visual Studio 2017 so now I’m downloading the 2015 version.
And now I will try to build my own scratch in 4.19
Good morning!
Sadly, even with VS2015 and UE 4.19.2 I still receive only black color.
Best wishes,
Miłosz
Good morning Milosz,
Just to confirm that spout is working on your computer: could you please confirm that if you run Spout Sender and Spout Receiver demo applications the textures are passed between the 2 apps?
2nd: could you please post a screenshot of your Render target window and the properties of your Scene capture 2D componenet in UE4 as shown below.
3rd: please run DirectX Diagnostic Tool and past the screenshot of the first tab please
And lastly, please let me know your system specs - especially the GPU.
Thanks!
Mitja
Well,
1st - There are screenshots where Lightact and Spout Sender/Receiver works.
a. receiving in Lightact
b. receiving in Spout
2nd.
a. screenshot with configuration of my RenderTarget
b. screenshot with Scene Capture Component 2D
3rd. DirectX Diagnostic Tool
4th. System Specs
Win 10 64bit Pro
Intel Core i7-6700HQ
16GB RAM
nVidia GTX1060
And all works on SSD.
Thanks!
Miłosz
After a few more to and fros in PM, what turned out to be the solution was:
I think your spout might be set to Memory share instead of Texture share.
I’ve been able to reproduce your error. In Spout2 folder, where you have Demo/spout receiver/sender programs, there is also a SPOUTDXMODE folder. In there, there is a program called SpoutDXmode.exe. Run it please. It should look like this:
Please make sure you have Texture share enabled and not Memory share.
Because when I looked again at your Spout receiver screenshots, I saw that it says Memoryshare whereas in mine it says Textureshare
having the same issues as milosz,
sending and receiving between spout and LA works fine but when I attempt to do so through UE4 (both from scratch following the tutorial video and from the example projects) I get the same error.
I’ve set my Spout settings to what’s described above and here’s my DirectX Diagnostic below:
Any help would be thoroughly appreciated!
Edit: Experimenting more with the Example UE4/LA project, it seems as though the shared memory sender is working, since the cube in UE4 is rotating:
(that only works when i disable UE2LA, which causes the error)
however seemingly everything else sent doesn’t work:
Hi Sam,
Sorry to hear about your troubles.
I know you said that you’ve got the exact same settings as described above, but could you please post a screenshot of your Spout DX11 Receiver and SpoutDXmode windows?
You might have seen this, but there is more information in the Spout Troubleshooting user guide.
Lastly, could you please share which GPUs you have in your system?
Thanks!
Mitja
sure thing, thank you for the help!
Here we have Spout receiving from LA:
here are my Spout settings, (called SpoutSettings rather than SpoutDXmode, not sure if that’s relevant):
Here’s the current GPU we’re using, although will likely be using a 1070Ti for our upcoming project:
So, if I understand correctly, you can send Spout from Lightact to SpoutReceiver.exe, but you cannot send Spout from UE4 to SpoutReceiver.exe? Am I correct?
When you have just UE4 and SpoutReceiver.exe running, does SpoutReceiver.exe actually detect UE4 spout sender? As in, can you select it in the select sender dialog window?
I googled that Interop Spout error you posted earlier and it might be something regarding which GPU UE4 is using. I might be completely wrong here though…
p.s. Both GPUs should be perfectly fine (you could have even something much less powerful). I’m guessing it’s something with GPU or Spout settings or, although less likely, DirectX settings.
Correct! Spout to Spout, and LA to Spout, and seemingly from LA data to UE4 (hence the rotating cube), but no textures from LA2UE/UE2LA.
When running the example UE4 project, I get this:
and the same error, which continues to pop up until I stop UE4
(No UE4 sender is detected when UE4 isn’t playing, and when it plays I get the error nonstop so I’m unable to check to see)
OK, the main problem seems to be ‘Cannot create DirectX/OpenGL interop’. All the others, such as ‘Couldn’t read Shared Memory’ are not really bugs - just warning & notifications.
Unfortunately, I don’t have any out-of-the-box ideas yet, but I’ll try to reproduce the error tomorrow. The only idea I have atm is that UE4 for some reason uses another GPU (integrated graphics perhaps?)
Reminded me of this post:
Is there any chance you could try on a different computer in the meantime?
Thanks!
Mitja
This error looks similar to one of the issues I had in the past (Author of the linked issue post). In my case I was running everything on a laptop, and LightAct had been using integrated graphics while UE4 was using the proper card. I believe spout needs both to be running on the same card since it uses shared memory to communicate.
Ensure that both applications are set to the same graphics card, if there are multiple. (NVidia control panel should have these settings) If that’s not the case, then unfortunately my post will be of little help.
Good luck,
Rob
