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play a motion actor in back while capture a new motion
Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 4:19 am
by andygraph
it's possible capture a actor while a have in background a another motion actor?
Just for interaction ..
thx;
Andy
Re: play a motion actor in back while capture a new motion
Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 4:46 pm
by Birch
You can do this two ways in Arena.
You can capture mocap data for a single markered actor while they interact with another non-markered in the volume.
Or, you can capture mocap data for two fully markered actors while they interact in the volume.
In both cases, you may need to experiment with different camera setups to get the best performance, since each actor in the volume can block the view of the other actor from some cameras. We generally recommend at least 12 cameras if there are two bodies in the volume, even if only one is being captured.
Re: play a motion actor in back while capture a new motion
Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 5:05 pm
by andygraph
i have only 8 cameras ...
anyway my idea was capture the actor "john" and save the mocap motion as "john01", then load the "john01" actor in background volume and capture again the actor john and interact with "john01" for make the "john02" mocap motion.
Is it possible ? and how ?
Re: play a motion actor in back while capture a new motion
Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 5:19 pm
by Birch
Ah, I see.
It isn't possible for Arena to do that right now (play back data and record at the same time), but its cool idea and I will pass it along to the team.
If you have MotionBuilder, maybe its capable of doing this?
Re: play a motion actor in back while capture a new motion
Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 2:28 am
by andygraph
No motionbuilder
