Blade software vicon

Vicon Blade is a single unified toolset that supports the growing demands of full performance capture, on-set visualization and makes capturing and processing motion capture data for the 3D animation pipeline simpler and more direct than ever before.

Blade is fully scalable and simplifies everything from system configuration and actor setup delivering clean and accurate motion capture skeletal solving and retargeting. It includes on set playback and visualization tools. It serves customers in the CG animation industry, film, visual effects, computer games, and broadcast television, as well as engineering and life science industries.

Vicon operates in four offices worldwide, including its Los Angeles-based Entertainment headquarters: a 26, square-foot facility equipped with three performance capture stages for Vicon's service company House of Moves.

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Calibration Run Auto Masking for a couple of seconds, and fix your floor if you found the problematic cameras. Then click Start Wand Wave. When a camera has recorded enough frames with the wand, the led will go green. When each camera's led is green, the calibration process will automatically start. Place the L-Frame into the center of the room and make sure that the levels are even. Run the Set Origin operation for a few seconds. Remove the L-frame wand from the floor, and scatter 5 markers around the floor and click Start Calibrating Floor Plane , and then click Stop You can then Save Calibration if you wish.

Load existing calibration file: You can also load the existing calibration file. Click Load Calibration under Camera Calibration panel. Double click the blue circle with a cross icon to select and open the captured data. Actor Set-up Select Actor Layout Button to view labeling panel and Solving Panel Or you can just directly click the Labeling button to view the Labeling Panel Or you can just directly click the Solving button to view the Solving Panel Click the Reconstruct button Labeling Panel to view the unlabeled markers in the 3D workspace Your viewer will show you the detected markers Click Detect Labeling Cluster to detect cluster for each character.

Click Calibrate to calibrate all markers. Manual Labeling If you need to manually label the markers in Blade, do so by selecting the Labeling editor under the Editors tab You have a choice of either labeling or selecting the markers in your 3D workspace mode Hover over a marker to reveal the label on it If you are labeling a T-pose before running Auto Label, make sure you pick Both directions in Labeling tab If you are processing a take and scrolling through, make sure to pick the direction you are scrolling, either forward or backwards.

If you get this result, then you can proceed to the next step. Your character will now be fitted to the labeled markers and will move with the motion as you scroll through the take Your viewer will show a new skeleton Character Management: You can also select Character Management Pane to manage all your characters Inside Character Management panel, there are information whether your calibrated or not. You can also click Import and Export data to Import and Export skeleton file.

Export this motion to whatever format you wish. Blade has a bvh exporter, but it exports a largely scaled up motion. Exporting to fbx is a better option as this can be imported directly to a character in Maya and exported from there to bvh if necessary.

Drag and drop it to the hip of skeleton inside viewer panel If there is dialog "Character must be in stance pose facing positive Z-axis", then select Biped Under Navigator Tab, you can rename the name of this skeleton. Add another 3 additional markers at each of your hand. Ben Guthrie, Motion Capture Supervisor said,? The real time is awesome.? So far, he has seen some amazing results. These are exciting times in motion capture thanks to Blade 2!? With over seven years?

It is robust and solid even on the most testing of shoots. Gone are the days of collapsed characters because markers have been occluded. You have to see it to believe it.? Tags: Axiom , Blade , Blade 2 , data processing , marker occlusion , mocap , motion capture , performance capture , software , Vicon. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.

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