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Houdini 15 and mocap data


art3mis

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According to this old thread Houdini only accepts mocap data if its Acclaim, Biovision or Motion Analysis.

I would like to try using some of the data from CMU

http://mocap.cs.cmu.edu

I can only see acronymns for tvd, c3d and amc

Any mocap experts that might tell me whether I should have any luck with any of these formats?

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You can use mcbiovision to convert bvh files in a Houdini script that generates the node structure plus a bclip file with the animations.

A french guy build an asset that does batch conversion with Python, but I'm on an iPad right now and don't have it here.

You will have to build the skin inside Houdini and will be tied to the CMU rig.

I had to build a custom retargeting system to overcome that. Hope to upload a demo video this month.

You will have to clean an correct most of the data, since it has lots of problems, like foot sliding and floating around.

One option would be doing this inside Adsk Motion Builder and exporting as a fbx file.

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