Affordable Motion Capture Gadget for Blender?

#1

Is there any affordable motion capture gadget available ( range $300 - $1000) which works well with Blender?

I just found out about Control VR, though I am not sure that it will work with blender.

If there are more options I would like to check them out first.

#2

Do a Youtube search on Blender Kinect Motion Capture. Most of the results look a bit shaky, but there may be a way to smooth that out.

ETA: Here’s a pretty impressive video. There’s some problems with occlusion near the end because he apparently only had one sensor, but if you had two or three Kinects that would help reduce the problem.

Steve S

#3

Thanks Man<br><br>I will have a look at this.

#4

Shouldn’t it be possible to use Blender’s built-in motion tracking?

#5

Shouldn’t it be possible to use Blender’s built-in motion tracking?

That is what I was thinking. A video camera can go a long way.

#6

I think converting that motion capture data to a armature is going to be a problem. However, bones can be constrained to follow the empties (out of motion tracking) and the resulting data can be animated i guess.