Live webcam or video in MB? Anybody?

[Neill]

Hi cowboy1,

real time video can be done through shader or manipulator plugin using OR SDK and directx web camera access. Just draw background overlay with a webcam frame.


I want to use a webcam to put real time video as a camera back plate or as texture in MB. Does anybody know how to do this? Not a Quicktime or AVI.....but real time video.

Autodesk is getting back to me about a special version of MB to do this. I'm told that it can be done.

Anybody got some ideas???

[cowboy1]

Appreciate your help. could you explain that a bit further? Can the webcam be a simple hook up like mine.......UBS to my computer. I have tried to activate it as a "device" within MB.....but MB will not accept it.

When you say "background overlay"....do mean as a "back plate" within the camera menu????

Again...it "seems" getting live video feed into MB should be easy....Autodesk is getting back to me about it.....but I feel their solution will cost a lot of money.....and I think its something easy.

Do you know of an existing plugin that will solve this?

thanks

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