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slaughters
10-09-2003, 08:45 PM
[copy and pasted from another forum]

For those of us who miss Icarus, there is another, currently free, camera tracking application being developed. It appears that it currently supports export to Softimage and 3DS Max

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It's called, "Voodoo Camera Tracker: A tool for the integration of virtual and real scenes". Here is the link:
http://www.digilab.uni-hannover.de/docs/manual.html#download
EdHarriss
10-09-2003, 09:04 PM
Since Icarus turned commercial, I've been looking for something free to guide my budget minded friends to and this is it. Thanks a lot for posting this. I'm sure they will all appreciate it.


Thanks.
vfx
10-09-2003, 10:44 PM
Great - cheers for the link will be checking out its useability tonite. So much for Icarus, haven't heard any success stories since it went legite.
xzevlin
10-09-2003, 11:56 PM
I tried this out a few days ago, and it worked pretty good. I hope it supports camera movement soon, and not just rotation.
arctor
10-10-2003, 01:10 AM
looks pretty cool....
everyone should realize though, that Universities are often mandated to comercialize products (like ICARUS) to recoup the $$$ spent on developing them....it's very likely that in a year 'voodoo' will be a commercial product as well...
EdHarriss
10-10-2003, 01:34 AM
Yes, but until then.... free tracking for all! :)
Bischofftep
10-10-2003, 07:21 PM
Originally posted by EdHarriss
Yes, but until then.... free tracking for all! :)

All except Mac OS X users, alas. :thumbsdow

I've emailed asking if there are plans for an OS X version, and even offered assistance in porting, but got no response.

Ah, well.

Back to Icarus.
Gentle Fury
10-11-2003, 04:55 AM
no maya support :(
deepinspace
10-11-2003, 08:05 PM
you know, if you are a student, you can get PFTrack (aka Icarus) for about 40 or 50 pounds.
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