Walk through a folder of uploaded images
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SteveG
As a teacher, I'd used Web Panels to let my students upload images and allow me to do lessons without new Unity Builds. Was about to make classrooms for other teachers :( ... Please fix Web Panels OR Allow the VR Pano code to walk through a folder of images whose names aren't known. It's doable in PHP.
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Pan Diman
I feel you on this one. I've been updating Virtual Week-ality every week for one year straight, and I got sick of re-uploading the same world over and over again. I was about to switch to web panels, even made a little site I've been working on during the past couple of months, so, needless to say, I was extremely frustrated when they removed the panels.
Thanks for using VRChat for educational purposes, by the way. I really want to encourage everyone to make the use of social platforms more common... assuming we're gonna get our web panels back at some point.
hakanai
Pan Diman: I'm currently playing with VRC_Panorama to fetch images, and the only real weaknesses: (1) the way it swaps the material is inflexible (a render texture would be easier to use for me); (2) the number of images has to be known in advance; (3) you still have to make a server-side thing to actually do the redirection.
I'd really kill for a way to provide a URL to a JSON file full of URLs. Same with video player, actually. I should check that there's a feature request for that too. :(
poplopo
I had a similar setup for Endgame, with a form that people could upload image URLs to a database of slideshows, and then whichever slideshow was active could be viewed in VRChat, with a remote control to go to the next and previous image URL's. It worked really nicely for those of us who want alternative uses for VRChat in addition to streaming or hanging out. With the right tools, VRChat can be a great educational platform as well.
Noe
That's really cool, I'm jealous of your students! For the time being, you might be able to use a VRC_SyncVideoStream setup with a private YouTube stream to achieve something similar, though it'd only really work when doing lessons live.
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SteveG
Noe: Thanks, Checking the specs "Play, PlayIndex, Stop, Pause, Next, Previous, Shuffle, Clear, AddURL" seems like there's interesting options. In the near term, I'm fine - especially as I place and upload 3D work from students anyway. The Web Panel is more about making VRChat useful to non-Unity using teachers (at places like Teacherspayteachers.com) Below is the art work based off the sketches. Curiously the class is actually sets up students to create educational content for VRChat....