Kinect NI Mate motion capture test

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Here’s my first test using NI Mate and the Kinect for motion capture. The animation is the direct output from the motion capture with no cleanup done.

https://youtu.be/3MjMLrQXQLI

It was pretty fantastic that my Kinect arrived in the postage the day before NI Mate came into open beta. :smiley:

http://www.ni-mate.com/

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you said no cleanup, hah, you sure must have wiggly ears! Seriously, great stuff, on my list of things to learn

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The rig supplied with NI Mate makes the ears do that automatically. :stuck_out_tongue:

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One more :stuck_out_tongue:

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Looks kinda messy

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I’m impressed how well it handles spins too. Will it handle faces?

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The second test looks great.

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Nah, it only tracks basic bipedal movement. It’s great for getting quick animation done, and then you can clean it up afterwards and manually animate hands, feet and facial expressoins.

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sucks that nimate isnt on linux yet because it looks awesome

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hi-saw this thread/thought maybe you could offer some help (tried on ni-mate forum, not too much going on)–
here is my test:


Can someone give me some tips re better motion control on this? it seems almost impossible to control the direction in the viewport once ni-mate is running…this is blender2.61 + ni-mate 0.93–after lots of messing up, i decided to use the rig from the ‘bunny’ example with a few simplifications–so why does the torso bend so erratically? the only changes i have made are to the mesh/skin, really nothing else (followed the tutorial closely,too). any tips? anyone? thanks. (i did work with different distances fr the kinect, and even when further for better view of feet i get these distortions too).
thanks…