Automatic conversion from TAK to BVH files

[benoit.lecallennec]

Hi,

I would like to convert .TAK files to BVH automatically. Is there any SDK I could use for that? If not, how could I do that?

Thanks a lot for your help.
Best regards.

[cge]

This reply is probably too late to be of any help, but I adapted the examples for the NMotive SDK to build a console app that converts TAK to FBX, and the examples get you a good portion of the way there. BVH is also supported and there’s an example for that as well.

[benoit.lecallennec]

Thanks a lot for your answer. We will look into that and see what we can do with the NMotive SDK.

Best regards.

[StephenKirk659]

Hi,

I would like to convert .TAK files to BVH automatically. Is there any SDK I could use for that? If not, how could I do that?

Thanks a lot for your help.
Best regards.

Hi! As far as I know, there isn’t an official SDK that directly converts .TAK files to BVH. What you can do is first check if your .TAK format can be exported to a more common motion format (like FBX or C3D) using the software that generated the .TAK. Once in a standard format, there are libraries and tools (like MotionBuilder, Blender, or Python libraries such as bvh-python) that can help you convert to BVH automatically.

If no direct export is possible, you might need to parse the .TAK file manually—extracting joint positions and rotations—and then write a script to generate a BVH file. It’s a bit of work, but it gives you full control over the conversion.