Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: Peter Passmore Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.programming.3d_graphics Subject: Motion capture Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 20:51:27 +0100 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 40 Message-ID: <35DF213F.7950@mdx.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: staff-dialup2.mdx.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04 (Win95; I) During our second short course two cool guys, Roy Bailey and Lee Spring, found some motion capture data on the web and started work on applying it to a model of theirs. They didn't manage to get it done in a day and so they moved on to working on dynamic TMD's. Look out for some hot demos from these guys in the coming months ... I couldn't resist trying to get motion capture data into the PSX, so I did. The data comes from: Jeff Lander jeffl@darwin3d.com www.darwin3d.com/gamedev.htm where you will find an opengl previewer and other very useful stuff about quaternions and other topics. motcap.zip contains a dos c program with source that converts Biovision (.bva) format motion captures files into a include file to be used on the PSX. Five motion capture .bva files are included, you can probably find more if you search the web, but I don't guarentee my utility will convert them ok (but I included the source). To run the different motion capture files type: bva2psx thefile.bva and then make clean, and then make. Then run siocons auto. The L1, L2, R1, and R2 buttons give different views of the object. I gave the actor a teapot head but just used a box for the other bones. I don't know whether the pivot points are correct but the animation looks similar to the original. I included the source of the PSX program which is especially designed to upset CW users. Maybe somebody will convert it to CW for Mac and other CW users (Paul?). motcap.zip can be found from: http://www.netyaroze-europe.com/~middx_uni/ BTW: the second short course went very well (though where are those demos guys?) and we will be running a final one 21-25 September.