moCAP realtime

[EricChadwick]

There's a Motion Capture tool in the Utility panel that will do this. You just hook it up to a mouse or joystick, then "record" your movements, and it makes the keyframes for you.

[TimWoods]

cool! i never knew that was there! its funny how things keep turning up!
thanks posm :thumbsup:

[speC]

ää.

first off all thnaks again, but i think you missunderstood me(prob. my fault)
the setting.
a musician moves his hand(director) this
movement is filmend by(let's say a webcam)
now i want to "translate" the data so
i can work with it.
i.e.:i get the direection of the hand movement as an
booelean value or i get the position of the fingers as floating values.
something like that:buttrock:

mercy and best wishes
speC

[EricChadwick]

Well, that's going to be expensive.

These work without motion capture markers
http://www.eyematic.com/products_facestation.html
http://www.scenegenie.com/genie.htm

If you want to use motion capture (markers, cameras, etc.) there are many options. But you're still talking expensive.

The last resort, and cheapest, is to hand-animate something in 3ds max to match the movement of the hand. Frame by frame. Slow and tedious, but not expensive.

[CGTalk Moderation]

This thread has been automatically closed as it remained inactive for 12 months. If you wish to continue the discussion, please create a new thread in the appropriate forum.