[Opensim-users] Converting the Carnegie Mellon Animations?

[Karen Palen]

Yes I agree.

It would also be nice to decode the binary form of the BVH file into the
textual XML form when doing an IAR dump! Something I plan to look into, but
my preliminary research (Hippo load animation command) seems to indicate
that it would not be hard. We will see :-)

I haven't tried animeple, but I wonder if it is outputting a valid XML/text
form of the BVH file or some binary form?

Here is a binary dump of a sample from my IAR file:

http://pastebin.com/PZfNpcdR

Here is a sample of a valid Qavimator file I generated a while back which
poses the avatar with hands behind the back:

http://pastebin.com/MEFx9U5W

Quavimator and Poser will only load the XML/text form.

Fortunately XML is easy to parse if you can get the file into that form.

You might get lucky and find the problem by comparison with other BVH files,
but simply hacking out portions of the file until you get something that
works should eventually identify the problem.

I think the key is to generate the text form BVH file though!

Is there some formal BVH spec. BTW? It would certainly simplify the analysis
and debugging process!

Karen

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 9:25 AM, BlueWall Slade <bluewall.slade at gmail.com>wrote:

> We have used ??animeple?? with some success. However the converted ones
> won't load into qavimator for love or money. I think the real power of
> having these converted over is to have a library to draw clips from for
> creating other animations.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 11:35 PM, Robert Klein <rtkwebman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Yes these are the same ones we started looking at on this list a few
>> months
>> back. The effort died fairly quickly without any tangible resolution as to
>> whether they could be converted. I reviewed some of the animations created
>> with them and they seem like solid mocaps. Again, not being a programmer I
>> was not able to progress them to a usable state for OpenSim. Just seems
>> like
>> a gold mine for us if something can be done with them.
>>
>> -Robert
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