There’s an extra bone for the “spine” of the NI-Mate output, between “hips” and “neck”, which needs to be deleted. Which is good, because the one coming out of NI-Mate isn’t properly compatible with the Blender plugin we’re gonna use for importing shortly. It’ll also let you rearrange the structure of the armature which determines the tracked points. Or stretch the skeleton if you want to morph it into something non-human, say. So you’ll need to fix those things up.Ī free-software program called BVHacker will let you tweek the recording in those kinds of ways. The angle it’s shot from will influence what counts as “Up”, your character is unlikely to be exactly in the center of the coordinate-system, it’ll need cropping to start with a clapper-board. It’s not just an “aptitude install KinectMocap” here I don’t think.Īnyway, that gives you a “.bvh” recording of your movement, but it’ll have all sorts of stuff wrong with it. Kinect Mocap looks like it might work, but also looks trickier to install, requiring various dev-tools and libraries and I’m not used to the craziness that involves in Windows. Will likely have to replace this part of the process. It has a record button, and for twenty Euros a week (plus tax), they’ll let you export that to “bvh” format.ĭon’t think I’m going to be able to afford that long-term. NI-Mate have a windows program that will set up your Kinect and show you a skeleton-guess at the pose of the person stood in front of it.

Sexy bvh mocap