HomeMade Mocap Studio Using Kinect or Ps3eye

it's easy to make a homemade mocap studio at your home.it only requires 2 or 3 hardware's for this project.

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Step 1: What Is a Mocap Studio?

Motion capture (Mo-cap for short) is the process of recording the movement of objects or people. It is used in military, entertainment, sports, medical applications, and for validation of computer vision and robotics.

We use different kinds of softwares and cameras to capture the motion of a character.

we can also use this motion track on maya,iclone almost every softwares.

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Step 2: Hardware and Softwares Required

Hardware:

1. ps3eye or kinect or a WEBCAM(you can use both).
2. pc or laptop
3. A clean Floor

Software:

1. iPi Mocap Studio(available for free)
2. iPi Recorder Setup(available for free)

System Requirments

1. 4 GB ram
2. minimum 2 gb Graphics card

That's it!!!

Step 3: Building the Studio

Place the Cameras in any direction,Just place it anywhere but 1 camera should be facing you and the other camera should be opposite to the other.th cameras should see your floor.

connect the cameras to the computer

Thats it !

Step 4: Installing the Softwares

Go to http://ipisoft.com/download/ download 2 softwares.

Install it.

on the installing of the 2nd software which is ipi recorder.tick which camera you are using

if you are using kinect tick kinect and install the driver

if you are using ps3eye camera tick it and install the driver.

using the 2 camera tick the 2 driver and install it.

Step 5: Using the IPi Recorder

Open the iPi software

it will show you the device manager,select the devices and cameras you need to use for the project.

Go to the record at the top of the software

record a video of you character animation which you want to use it for animation

after the recording press the S button and it will take you to the iPi MocapStudio.

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Step 6: Using the IPi MocapStudio

The recorder will take you to the iPi mocapstudio

then a window will open New project Wizard.

Select the gender Male or Female and specify an Actual height of you.Continue

It will show you a Rose man.stand to it also it shows you the animation that you have been captured using the recorder.

you can line-up the actor using the move tool on the toolbar.

and turn of the video on the toolbar.move it.

you can adjust the actor bon the actor window right side of the software.

On the tracking Session press the track forward button

it will take some minutes to track.

play the animation

Whoalla!!

Step 7: Exporting the Animation

go to the tracking window and press apply at post-processing

after that go ahead to Export window

go to the export animation dropdown and export it to the software you need.

Step 8: Additional Fix.

Thank you

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Comments

[muhammedalthafputhanpeedika]

Nice project

[businessmail182]

Nice project.i used this software for creating animations for my game

Thank you

[grimmwerks]

What game? Authoring in Unity or something else?

[businessmail182]

Unity,I exported datas from the software and imported to maya to create animations for my character

[Shahir nasar]

Thank you

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