Other options for characterizing?

[hrydek]

What do you mean by "other way to charcterize a mocap file other than the drag and drop deal?"

Though I deal with mocap every day, I never characterized a mocap file.

[Favian001]

(just to recap) in order to "convert" my .bvh file into a .fbx file, I need to characterize it so that the naming conventions match up to MB format. So you need to drag and drop a "character" onto the mocap within MB. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I was told this is the method for using a .bvh file in MB. If there is another method that would be great, I've tried everything else that I could think of at this point. Thanks!

[donShole]

I haven't tried this before but... Under the character def panel, after first dragging and sropping the bones to the correct slots, you can save a custom "chracterizeable hierarchy" which presumably can be used every time you have a skeleton with the same hierarchy. Look in the reference manual on how to actually dot it:) .

[Favian001]

well thats not really the issue, its more of getting the skeleton characterized without dragging and dropping the preset "character" that's located in the assets window>characters folder. Do you know of any other way to do this or is it the only way?

[donShole]

well thats not really the issue, its more of getting the skeleton characterized without dragging and dropping the preset "character" that's located in the assets window>characters folder. Do you know of any other way to do this or is it the only way?

My bad for misunderstanding. The answer however is - no.

[wuensch]

you can dragdrop charcter also in Navigator onto the topmost Object of your hierarchy to characterize-- but wait, that also drag& drop--
whats wrong with drag & drop?

Olli

[Favian001]

So I guess I'll tell you guys why I want to know if this works without drag and drop. I have over 2000 MoCap's that I need to run through and would like to program an automation process instead of getting carpaltunel from dragging and dropping over 2000 times. I actually finally resolved the issue yesterday and yes donShole was right, just as I had thought, there is no other way except drag and drop. We did resolve it though and I appreciate everyones input!

[hrydek]

Well, this is the same issue I answered in constraints some time ago. Once constraints are created it's possible to reuse this kind of rig on other file by merging whole file with contraints but in merging options having models unchecked.

The same applies to characters (your problem here), character faces, actor faces, materials, shadres and so on. There is only one requirement: models must have the same names as in file which is mereged.

[Favian001]

yeah I tried that, but it didn't work. The names were the same and everything... I'm doing good with the winbatch so far, I do appreciate your help though.

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