TRC files

#1

Are there any good parsing documents of how a TRC mocap file works? Or likewise for BVH? We are currently looking at mocap for some of our animation work and would like some ideas on the best or most useful files for this.

Thanks.
Pete~

#2

hi there,

im not 100% sure about the TRC file format, but from what i remeber its just point data, and theres a built in tool in max to import the data, so you mite be able to use that to drive a custom rig or maybe a biped with some maxscript coding. bhv you can import stright into max’s biped, although its joint solving is much to be diseried.

heres a link to an explenation to the bvh file format
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/graphics/Courses/cs-838-1999/Jeff/BVH.html

what i do with my motion capture pipeline is to use motionbuilder and solve onto a biped rig, then convert it to biped using some scripts.

hope that helps

geoff

#3

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