Augmented Reality in Blender Game Engine

Game Engine Game Engine Support and Discussion
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How would i achieve something like this?

I have something really cool i wanna test out if i can AR

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Pardon, what do you mean with “AR”?

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Augmented Reality?

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Sorry, AR means Augmented Reality. I will change the thread name to that :slight_smile:

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Video texture + clever scripting?

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really? i didnt think of that sarcastic tone heheh

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i wanna get a live video stream from my webcam (which i know can be done in BGE) but how would i just assign the objects to tracj to the markers - is what i need to know :stuck_out_tongue:

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I know there was a video some years ago. As far as I remember they didn’t provided the source code for it.

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Darn it :frowning:

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Check out Goran’s stuff.

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thats cool :stuck_out_tongue: not exactly what im lookin for though :confused:

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So ive been looking around… theres this thing called “ARToolKit” which is an API for Java, C#, C++, etc… and it can be used as a package in Unity… But i dont want to switch over to those programs, languages… until i can fill out all the blanks in Blender :stuck_out_tongue: It must be possible. others have done it… :frowning:

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EXTRA INFO:

I hadnt realized, but that vid actually uses the ARToolKit…

This is a demo of the Python ARToolKit wrapper written by Ashsid (ashsid.sk).

which means, im on the right track :smiley:

http://sourceforge.jp/projects/nyartoolkit/releases/ here are the releases but i see no Python version (doesnt python work with C++?) which means it could be converted/used…

EDIT:

http://mgldev.scripps.edu/projects/pyartk/download.html

Here is the download link for the code.

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so for those not knowing what AR is… well its this.


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pretty cool, so u can basically make, like, kinect games in BGE? nice! … heck u could make it even better

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exactly what im going for! cept a little different. i want to take realworld games and merge it with BGE to make a very interactive project.

But Im still not sure how to use the NyARToolKit in Blender…

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hmm still no advancements in this - bump to see if anyone new has a clue :stuck_out_tongue:

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At one stage I was interested in AR, and looked into various things. I never actually got anywhere though, after realizing that it is a bit of a dead end. What can you do with AR? Make adverts? I can’t see it as a great gameplay mechanic either, holding your hands for more than a few minutes get’s tiring.
But it would be a cool thing to do.

I found this searching for importing a webcam feed into blender:

So it obviously can be done.

There are threads around about AR in pygame, and I see that that vid uses it, so if that gives you a start?

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oh cool - well my idea was to hve a card game like yugioh where you can see the monsters and they can fight.

thanks for the link ill look into that :stuck_out_tongue:

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Read the friendly manual …

http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Game_Engine/Python_API/VideoTexture

video4linux capture card (this includes many webcams)

:slight_smile: