Independent Developer » animation http://www.independentdeveloper.com Code, Art and Everything In-Between Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:32:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Wearable Mo-Cap http://www.independentdeveloper.com/archive/2007/11/28/wearable_mocap http://www.independentdeveloper.com/archive/2007/11/28/wearable_mocap#comments Wed, 28 Nov 2007 05:00:00 +0000 Lisa This new wearable motion capture system is so compact, it can even be used to capture movement in otherwise impossible environments like behind the wheel of a car!

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The most interesting part? The authors claim to have built their prototype from off-the-shelf components for only around $3K. Read the paper here.

]]> http://www.independentdeveloper.com/archive/2007/11/28/wearable_mocap/feed 0 AC3D Plugin: Pivot Tools http://www.independentdeveloper.com/archive/2007/11/12/ac3d_plugin_pivot_tools http://www.independentdeveloper.com/archive/2007/11/12/ac3d_plugin_pivot_tools#comments Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:17:00 +0000 Lisa This plug-in collection adds a series of tools to AC3D that allow you to manage object pivots more effectively. With this plug-in set, you can: Set an object pivot to the highlighted vertex, zero the object pivot, rotate around the pivot instead of the centroid (numerically), or manually enter a pivot location. These functions are very helpful for setting up your model for animation or import into games.

Download the plugin. (Requires Windows XP, AC3D 6.2 or above.)

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