Comments on: Camera Tracking Using the Game Engine

By: Erik

Erik — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:58:06 +0000

The links are dead, anyone knows where to get it now?

By: Gustavo

Gustavo — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:09:05 +0000

where do i put the plug-in?

By: Gustavo

Gustavo — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:07:58 +0000

where do i put the sources?

By: Ash

Ash — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:55:22 +0000

Hi, all,

thanks for compliments to this video, and for the critics, too. I apologise for problems you had with the demo, but I didn't meant it as complete "one-click" solution. It's purpose was to show possibilies of GameBlender Texture plug-in that I created and published. This plug-in currently works on Windows only (there are users trying to make it work on linux).

The best way to get working demo is install Texture plug-in first and test, that's it is working (there is demo for it on my site). Then you'll have to install remaining modules: numpy and PyARTK.

When you'll get into troubles, you can check discussion on http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=65107 – there is a lot of information on plug-in, or you can write a comment on my site with info of your specific error.

By: solhex

solhex — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:33:47 +0000

Yeah I agree about the quality of the camera tracking, although that said it's not that bad, there was a fractional lag through the faster moving images but it soon caught up. When Icarus or pftrack start to go off track that's where they stay without human intervention.

The first example movie I saw ran for over a minute and looked like it didn't need to stop anytime soon. I got Icarus to successfully track 12 seconds of DV footage once. Also I think this was developed for more real time interactive kinda stuff. I'm amazed by it frankly, and free to boot! It might be a while before programs like Icarus and pf track can do pixel perfect "live" tracking but can you imagine how cool it would be to have near instantaneous cg and live action animatics for our future productions…well, that's what it looks like we have here. Awesome! For now though, like a few others I'll have to wait until someone smarter than myself makes an idiot proof installer…Anyone?

By: NathanKP

NathanKP — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:01:52 +0000

I don't know about you, but I didn't find the camera tracking in the sample video to be particular impressive. NathanKP - Inkweaver Review

By: Roger

Roger — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:55:48 +0000

it sucks that i can't get it to work, if someone can make the suggested complete package, that would be wild

until then, this is what i've made just now using the ARToolKit's 'engine'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmWRokiwux4

hope to be able to do the same thing, but then with materials (maybe even textures) and using the blender game engine

cheers

By: SNovak

SNovak — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:30:32 +0000

Awesome!!

By: Glenn

Glenn — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:14:20 +0000

Has anyone got this working yet? I find the install help a little cryptic. I have made a PYTHONPATH variable pointing to the PyARTK files, installed the latest BlendVideoTex scripts into blender but cannot make sense of the demo. Is there a painfully slow step by step for numb-skulls like me to help me get going?

Glenn

By: boat

boat — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:44:09 +0000

i guess no one can get it to work.???????????
any one? do i have to install Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003?