Another Huge Mocap Library
Do you remember the article, about mocap files? Where PlantPerson talks about motion capture technology and point to us a tutorial, showing how to use mocap files with Blender? Well, in this tutorial a very large library of free mocap files is used. We just found another huge mocap library, with a lot of files to download for free.
But, we can convert these files easily with a free tool, called amc2bvh. The BVH file format is fully compatible with Blender!
Nice i will try this out later
Nice! Just a reminder, you need to download both the asf and asc files.
Great find. Anyone know of a converter for linux?
@claws: It seems it works with wine. You need msvcp60.dll
That’s excellent. I’m going to test and see if I can get it to work with this model tonight or tomorrow: http://www.alienhelpdesk.com/suzanne_awards_07/petunia_robot
Will need mad tweaking of course, but it could be fun!
Hello!
beware, my antivirus – nod32 on windows recognize one file in http://mocap.cs.cmu.edu:8080/allasfamc.zip to be a trojan!
I’m talking about http://mocap.cs.cmu.edu:8080/subjects/55/55_15.amc
.::PiPi::.
p.s. otherwise, great database!
Ooooh. Sweet. I’m gonna use one of these and try and duplicate the movements with Mancandy to practice character animation!
If your having problems with large BVH’s, I fixed this in Blender-SVN, so keep an eye out on for a recent build, saving from this, then loading in 2.44/5 will work too.
Also… the carnegie mellon data is at 120fps, and they just load at regular frame intervals in blender!
And… I did a heap of testing on the data… sadly it’s rather a mess… very jittery. It’s great but it all needs a LOT of cleanup. I’m using some data from the “other” blendernation article now.. sadly.
great discovery! but I can only get the amc files not the asf ones, so the converter crashes due to the lack of this file. Where are you guys getting the correspondent asfs?
@ afecelis – Did you download from the FAQ? From the /faq.cfm page=
“May I have a copy of the entire database?
Sure! Please don’t crawl this database for all motions.
Here is a zipfile of all asf’s and amc’s,
and another couple of all the .c3d’s – they sum to over 4GB so the files were split up by subject number: zipfile 0, zipfile 1a, zipfile1b, zipfile 2,3,4, and zipfile 5,6,7,8,9. If you need some other combination of file types, drop us an email at [email protected] and we will be happy to help.”
Note: “Here is a zipfile…” where zipfile is live-link, and will launch a download dialog. Good luck.
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If you found this post later than Aug 08, then see the CM site, because the collection has been converted to MH format by a third party.