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Questions tagged [motion-capture]

Motion capture (Mo-cap for short) is the process of recording the movement of objects or people.

it refers to recording actions of human actors, and using that information to animate digital character models in 2D or 3D computer animation.

When it includes face and fingers or captures subtle expressions, it is often referred
to as performance capture.
In many fields, motion capture is sometimes called motion tracking, but in filmmaking and games, motion tracking usually refers more to match moving.

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Adjust certain frames in BVH file

How can I adjust some frames in BVH file? Basically clean up the BVH from some noise.
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How can I make the character not going backward after collison with a bad's guy ammuntion?

After my main character is hit by the bad guy with ammunition, my charcter is going a lot backward. What can I do to make it go back just a little and then come back to his place where he was hit.
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How do I motion track a person and control an armature?

I am working on an animation series with fight scenes. Animating everything by hand takes a lot of time and doesn’t always look good. I was wondering if I could motion track a person with various markers and transfer the movement to a rigged…
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Motion Tracking in the woods

I shot with some friends a star wars shot in the woods. We want to make a scene, where everything stands still (frozen time effect) and a blaster-shot hangs in the air. For that we need to motion track it in blender. But It is very hard because the…
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Is there any software that I can do real time motion capture in Blender with?

I just finished an animation, and it took me a really long time. I was thinking of ways to reduce the time, and motion capture crossed my mind. I was wondering if anyone knows of any real-time motion capture software that works with Blender.
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How do I track a camera that moves a long distance (IE, a bike going down the side of an entire mountain), without losing accuracy?

I have a couple of videos I pulled off of youtube of bike runs down the sides of mountains, and I would like to digitally add in some crazy scenery as a joke like lava pits in the jumps, etc... however, I keep running into a problem with my much…
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I use Rigify metahuman for rigging my character in Blender. Is there a way to capture motion using live video from my webcam?

Rigify is a great addon for rigging character inside blender. But the problem is animating the characters is not very easy using the handles generated by rigify. I tried downloading bvh files from some University websites which has a lot of motion…
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How to do motion track with the camera movement

The camera still keep rotating ,moving and I want to put the 3D model in the scene.If all track points keep in the camera view its ok to track but confused me is the track points only can keep a while then disabled with the camera movement. So the…
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Glycon joints not supported in Blender--I'm trying to fix it.

The FBX file my mocap system generates is not compatible with Blender, and I'm trying to figure out why. Any advice or pointers would be greatly appreciated. This is what it looks like in Blender, which is wrong: And this is what it looks like in…
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How can I use a webcam for Motion capture?

I'm new to Blender so, for everything I want to do, I watch tutorials on YouTube. I recently learnt I can do motion capture using my Webcam: this is a lot easier than setting keyframes, so I went to YouTube to search for tutorials on how to use…
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Creating .bvh from .c3d

I'm working on a project importing motion capture from physical therapy patients. What I have been trying to do is import the .c3d data, creating an armature and parenting it to the .c3d, and exporting it as a .bvh. My next step was to create a…
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How Can I Remove CGI from Part of my Video?

I added a lightsaber (with motion tracking) in Blender with a video of myself. I remove the lightsaber from my pocket near the end of the video. How can I make the lightsaber invisible until then? Thanks.
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i cant solve camera motion

I can't solve camera motion after tracking my footage. I don't know what happened, if I messed up with tracking. I don't understand some data failed to reconstruct meaning.
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Trouble with first time motion tracking

I'll be concise: while I can get to motion tracking I don't have the same menus I see on specific tutorials that seem to be running 2.8. odd. I can Ctrl+A and place markers all over. I cannot get them to track and show tracers when scrubbing left…
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does blender have full body motion tracking?

Im trying to find out if theres full body motion tracking and rigging because i want to use my own body movement in blender animation, i dont want to download others motion captured stuff. i dont want to use a kinect camera for motion tracking my…
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