Mocap to Broomstick, with mini tutorial for MAX users

[themightyatom]

Evening all,

I just posted a mini tutorial for getting Motion Capture data into
Broomstick via the MD5 format.
http://videometry.blogspot.com/

Hope someone finds it useful.

Now I just need to get my hands on a Kinect...
http://www.ipisoft.com/gallery.php

Cheers!

Peter S.

[Choons]

frakin brilliant!

On May 17, 1:41 pm, themightyatom <mcstrombe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Evening all,
>
> I just posted a mini tutorial for getting Motion Capture data into

> Broomstick via the MD5 format.http://videometry.blogspot.com/

[Peter Kapelyan]

Really nice job! Funny how the neck gets thin when he throws the baseball.

So you want a kinect to record the animations or for what?

-Pete

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[themightyatom]

Hi Pete, yes with that Kinect software you can do pretty decent motion
capture for under 400 bucks!
It outputs to "3D MAX Biped-compatible .BVH", so would fit perfectly
into the pipeline.

Here's a test demo, http://www.youtube.com/user/suvakas2#p/a/u/1/Z1fPf4Ogbco
and a whole film recorded with it, including "the making of" (must
see!)
http://www.ipisoft.com/3dwcomp.html

Btw, I've got no connection with iPi, I'm just a big fan of affordable
cool stuff ;)

On May 17, 9:13 pm, Peter Kapelyan <flashn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Really nice job! Funny how the neck gets thin when he throws the baseball.
>
> So you want a kinect to record the animations or for what?
>
> -Pete
>

[John Brookes]

Both IE and FF
Error: Error #3608: Stream 0 is invalid.
    at flash.display3D::Context3D/drawTriangles()
    at away3d.materials.passes::MaterialPassBase/render()
    at away3d.materials.passes::DefaultScreenPass/render()
    at away3d.materials::MaterialBase/renderPass()
    at away3d.core.render::DefaultRenderer/drawRenderables()
    at away3d.core.render::DefaultRenderer/draw()
    at away3d.core.render::RendererBase/executeRender()
    at away3d.core.render::RendererBase/render()
    at away3d.core.render::DefaultRenderer/render()
    at away3d.containers::View3D/render()
    at LoaderMD5TestMan/handleEnterFrame()

I am running the 11.1.3d flashplayer
:(

[themightyatom]

Was that running the demo from the net, or trying to compile it John?
The material is embedded in the swf, so that should be ready before
the first render.
I can't reproduce the error, but will try updating incubator...

[John Brookes]

Thats in browser, your demo/site

[Peter Kapelyan]

Does a real nice job considering it's just assuming Z position of certain things. But yeah mocap studio + keep your kid from bothering you for under $400? Sold! lol

-Pete

[themightyatom]

Nuts. Turns out David's demo (from which I borrowed 99% of the code)
dies too with the current build.
http://infiniteturtles.co.uk/projects/away3d/broomstick/LoaderMD5Test.html

10 brownie points for the first person to find out why.
All assets load correctly, according to Firebug.

[John Brookes]

No idea, but on a side note I know the BBC iplayer fails too.

[Choons]

Michael Iv noticed the same error with PostProcessTest.as the other
day

On May 17, 2:56 pm, themightyatom <mcstrombe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Nuts. Turns out David's demo (from which I borrowed 99% of the code)

> dies too with the current build.http://infiniteturtles.co.uk/projects/away3d/broomstick/LoaderMD5Test...

[Michael Iv]

Running it I can see a black screen . ????

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[Michael Iv]

I am not sure if the examples are outdated but may be the cause is in the last Incubator build.Do you guys run the latest Incubator?

[Michael Iv]

Foe example Alternativa latest build got screwed partially due to the latest Incubator update.

[themightyatom]

OK, noticed the globalPlayer.swc was updated together with the latest
player build.
I'll try a recompile using that when I get to the office tomorrow.

I tried to log in to the Adobe bug system, but there seems to be a bug
in that too.
I can't find the incubator bug tracker any more, seems to have been
taken down.
The only bugs listed are for FP 10. Anyone?

[richardolsson]

Away4 is currently not working properly with the latest incubator.
Adobe made some changes and we have yet to incorporate them all into
the Away4 codebase. You will need to go back to using the previous
incubator build, or wait for us to update the code (which should
happen very soon).

Thanks for the patience!

Cheers
/R

[John Brookes]

Thats if you can find the old version
:)

[Michael Iv]

"Thats if you can find the old version" 

Just crossed my mind...

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:29 PM, John Brookes <jbp...@googlemail.com> wrote:

Thats if you can find the old version
:)

[themightyatom]

OK, that certainly rained on my parade :)

I'll put out an updated version as soon as there's a change in the
incubator player and/or there's
an Away3D version to work with the current beta.

Thanks for the heads up.

Oh what joy to develope with alpha software...

On May 17, 10:41 pm, Michael Iv <explomas...@gmail.com> wrote:
> *"Thats if you can find the old version"  *

> Just crossed my mind...
>
> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:29 PM, John Brookes <jbp...@googlemail.com>wrote:
>
> > Thats if you can find the old version
> > :)
>
> --
> Michael Ivanov ,Programmer
> Neurotech Solutions Ltd.
> Flex|Air |3D|Unity|www.neurotechresearch.comhttp://blog.alladvanced.net
> Tel:054-4962254

> mich...@neurotech.co.il
> t...@neurotech.co.il

[themightyatom]

Now updated with new source, compiled with latest github version of
Away3d.

I am experiencing some weirdness with the player disappearing and
reappearing at random.
If anyone can tell me why I'd be very grateful.

Cheers

[Choons]

does that mean that Broomstick is working with the latest incubator
release?

[richardolsson]

@Choons:
It should be, yeah!

/R

[Choons]

@Richard you guys rock

[themightyatom]

Found the bug!
Added a mesh.bounds.nullify() when the player first loads and now it
runs correctly :)