[Opensim-users] Converting the Carnegie Mellon Animations?

[Karen Palen]

I think you are correct, but this is derived from the Poser skeletons which
also use the hip as the anchor point. Just from memory there are some other
differences in the "standard" skeletons in the way certain "bones" are
handled.

THe DAZ Millenium figures use a more complex skeleton which includes
"buttocks". This makes for more realistic walks, but this skeleton also is
not carried over into SL/OS. In this case the "buttocks" can usually be
dropped with minimal effect.

This is why Poser BVH files work well with SL and OS!

Karen

On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Steve <steveamigauk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

>  The problems with widely available BVH is they conform to the BVH
> standard, whereas SL (and I assume OS) don't. The anchor point is the hip in
> BVH if I remember correctly, which doesn't exist as part of the SL/OS
> skeleton.
>
> Steve
>
>
> On 08/03/2010 1:45 PM, Chris Hart wrote:
>
>  I think I tried these before – it’s important to note that to
> successfully import to SL or OpenSim you only have certain joints to
> animate, so fingers and toes, for example, won’t animate. I think the
> presence of animation information for extra joints may cause an import to
> fail, so I would try importing to a tool like QAvimator or Animeeple if a
> plain import to the grid doesn’t work.
>
>
>
> If these are the same ones that were posted around this list a couple of
> months ago I did manage to get them into Daz studio and export with just the
> SL-compatible joint set, BUT even though I managed to import some to
> OpenSim, all the animations seemed to be a variation on a zombie dance – not
> sure the conversion worked as planned! Fingers crossed someone else has
> better luck J
>
>
>
> Chris
>
>
>
> *From:* opensim-users-bounces at lists.berlios.de [
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> *On Behalf Of *Fish Kungfu
> *Sent:* 08 March 2010 12:37 PM
> *To:* opensim-users at lists.berlios.de
> *Subject:* Re: [Opensim-users] Converting the Carnegie Mellon Animations?
>
>
>
> Robert...
>
> That's a great find!  since they are already .bvh files they don't need
> converting.  They just need to be uploaded as an Animation.  **BUT**, I just
> tried to upload one to Second Life and got the error message that animation
> files must not be larger than 60K.  A quick scan of the first set of .bvh
> files from the link you provided shows most of these files are at least
> hundreds of kilobytes large.  Maybe they can be opened with something like
> Avimator and edited down.  Or, as far as OpenSim goes, maybe there is a
> config setting to allow larger Animation uploads.  Again, I haven't tried
> uploading to my OpenSim yet.  Mine's down this morning.  Hopefully someone
> else can try.
>
> Cheers!
> ~~Fish~~
>
>
>
>
>  On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 10:23 PM, Robert Klein <rtkwebman at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
> Was anybody successful at converting these animations so we can use them in
> OpenSim? Seems like over 2500 animations would be worth the effort.
>
>
> http://sites.google.com/a/cgspeed.com/cgspeed/motion-capture/3dsmax-friendly-release-of-cmu-motion-database
>
> -Robert
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