Anonymous at Tue, 9 Apr 2024 15:15:57 UTC No. 980055

>>978177
Now we just need smart white guys and asians to take over Hip-Hop.

Anonymous at Tue, 9 Apr 2024 16:03:25 UTC No. 980057

>>978177
are you talking about the cg industry? because it's full of indians.

Anonymous at Tue, 9 Apr 2024 16:14:01 UTC No. 980058

So, somebody in another thread wanted to see mocap with shoulder movement. I was thinking about starting a new thread but this one will do. Thanks Cris for making it.

Anonymous at Tue, 9 Apr 2024 16:23:20 UTC No. 980060

With the armature visible.

Anonymous at Tue, 9 Apr 2024 16:41:59 UTC No. 980062

This >>980058 >>980060 is Microsoft Rocketbox, which you can get from here:
https://github.com/microsoft/Microsoft-Rocketbox
Just in case you want to make something, have fun and not have to listen to some self-styled "artist" for a while.

Anonymous at Tue, 9 Apr 2024 17:31:51 UTC No. 980067

This is another action. But the problem is the same as with the other set. Due to bugs and missing features in the NLA editor, it's (almost) impossible to re-target, combine and modify the actions effectively.
I'm glad the Blender developers may be doing something about it in 2025 after they're done with Grease Pencil which is obviously a priority.

Anonymous at Tue, 9 Apr 2024 17:38:51 UTC No. 980068

>>980058
what's the point? I always delete the shoulder movement and when I'm done re-animating hands I constrain the shoulders to elbow (elbows and hands are on IK) with aim at about 40%. what you posted looks terrible

Anonymous at Tue, 9 Apr 2024 17:42:03 UTC No. 980069

>>980068
>what you posted looks terrible
Can you show me something good of your own? Don't answer. I know the answer.

Anonymous at Tue, 9 Apr 2024 17:48:56 UTC No. 980071

>>980069
why make the post then, you fucking retard. what's even the point of your other posts ITT? you wanted to discuss mocap techniques or just shill your github project?

Anonymous at Tue, 9 Apr 2024 18:00:16 UTC No. 980072

>>980071
>shill your github project
If you don't want to visit the link, at least read it. What does it say? You know there are those letters things in there.

Anonymous at Tue, 9 Apr 2024 18:30:48 UTC No. 980077

>>980072
okay an avatar library..cool. then what's up with the mocap? you want to discuss it or what

Anonymous at Tue, 9 Apr 2024 18:34:57 UTC No. 980078

>>980077
The main issue is that the library provides building blocks (in term of animations) but it's really hard to use those in Blender. So, if you have concrete ideas or techniques to do so, that would he interesting.

Anonymous at Wed, 10 Apr 2024 18:02:48 UTC No. 980159

>>980078
I'm not familiar with freetard software but as I mentioned previously, I don't use shoulders from mocap at all most of the time because I reanimate the arms anyway and then the original movement doesn't correspond (I reanimate with IKs in a kinda retarded way but it's much faster than classic workflow)

Anonymous at Thu, 11 Apr 2024 00:34:47 UTC No. 980187

>>980159
I'm curious to try to do that but I don't think it's going to work because Blender's IK system relies on joints being a little pre-bent in the right direction and I don't think the CMU skeleton has that feature.

Anonymous at Thu, 11 Apr 2024 01:07:27 UTC No. 980192

>>980159
I'm surprised. It kinda works. However not with the default solver. The itasc solver has an option to copy the rotation of the target instead of using a pole and that seems to work. It should also allow to set rotation limits, stiffness...

Anonymous at Thu, 11 Apr 2024 08:27:27 UTC No. 980221

For years I've tried to understand what the iTaSC solver thing purpose was. Because the documentation is cryptic and it works kinda like a cut down version of a rigid body simulator.
https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/2.79/rigging/armatures/posing/bone_constraints/inverse_kinematics/introduction.html#rigging-armatures-posing-bone-constraints-ik-model-itasc
Turns out it's for advanced re-targeting. When it's enabled, the "Copy Pose" mode inside the IK constraint can be used instead of the Copy Transform constraint. It's outside the scope of what I'm trying to do now but I'll get back to it

Anonymous at Thu, 11 Apr 2024 17:34:54 UTC No. 980248

>>980192
yeah, the trick is that 80% of the important motion comes from the ankles, chest and wrists (all on IK).. you can just grab the poses you need (from the original mocap) and delete all other keys and you will still get sort of cleaned up original motion that you can restore via constrains and playing with IK pulls. of course you need to know what you are doing as an animator. sometimes reanimating things yourself is faster than trying to clean up shitty mocap