Does anybody know of any free motion capture programs?
Or don’t any exist?
Edit: Sorry if this isn’t the correct place to ask…
if u mean desktop capture frontcam is good
Trapesourus: that’d be screen capture.
LIGHTspeed: I don’t know of any free motion capture applications, so all I can think of is this.
EDIT: Here’s a site that might help:
I had found this site a while ago: http://www.zoo-logique.org/3D.Blender/index.php3?zoo=res … it has a lot of links. In it there is this one: http://www.geeware.com/ . At this geeware site there is DgeeMe, which is a free video based motion capture program. Hope that helps.
Thanks Power3d…I think that’s just about what I’m looking for!
Your Welcome, LIGHTspeed!
Hey Friday13,
the motion capture system at the site you told about is awsome…
but it costs around $28,000!(that’s a special discount for schools)
hi-yi-yi-yi-yi!
Edit: The free bhv files might be good though…
NOOOoooo, I’m not pointing out that expensive thing. See the Free BVH section (free registration required). There are also BVH files here.
can DGeeMee export into BVH, or any format that Blender can use? I’m not interested in just doing “motion analysis.”
It can import to bhv, but Blender has and error importing them on my computer.
LIGHTspeed: forget about what your parents say, and e-mail the problematic BVH file to cambo, so he can fix the problem (or upload to one of those file hosting sites).
DgeeMe looks quite interesting… does anyone know if there’s a simular piece of software (video based motion tracking) for Linux? I know about voodoo, but that’s mainly a camera tracker if I understand right.
Like I said earlier at this site: http://www.zoo-logique.org/3D.Blende...x.php3?zoo=res … it has a lot of links. Besides DgeeMe there is MotView at: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/graphics/Courses/cs-838-2000/Students/gardner/motView/ I do not know exactly how well it works. It is for windows and linux and does motion capture editing, but am not sure if it does the video based motion capture. So if you want to try it you can.
DGeeMe works really well for captureing the motion, it can also export to BVH. For some reason the BVH files saved from DGeeMe don’t work with the blender import BVH script. I’ve tried to find the problem, both in the script or the DGeeMe BVH save file, but I havent found a solution to the problem yet.
That site does have quite an amount of links, but it doesn’t contain video based motion capture for Linux…
Motview however is interesting (if i could get it to work even more so), but indeed according to the mentioned features, is for editing motionfiles only and does not capture. Well if I (ever) find something simular to DGeeMe for Linux I’ll post a link…
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you just have chmod 777 on the linux binary file to make it executable, and it runs perfectly for me. I’ll be experimenting with Motview this week.
I plan on using Kino for video capture…
Goto renderosity and look for a program called Visual Marker. I bought it some time ago there. It was only around $30.
It does rough BVH from video files.