Friday, November 5, 2010

How to Clean Mocap

Here are some easy steps to remember how to select a loop cycle, clean up mocap, and correct your speed.
  • Nice tip when selecting your loop cycle from Raw Mocap data
  • Separate the movement cycles.
  • Make sure beginning and end frame pose are relatively the same.
  • Create new layer and bracket the middle frame.
  • Copy pose from the in-between beginning and end pose.
  • Paste it on the beginning and end.
  • Go through your selections and pick the best cycle
  • Cleaning up Mocap for movement cycles
  • Check fingers
  • Check Spine, does it bounce to much?
  • Delete the X-rot curve to reduce the noise on knees.
  • Smooth out the trajectory on the knees.
  • Add a little symmetry and balance to upper torso, on another layer.
  • Correct your speed
  • Calculate how far your character need to travel in a given time.
  • Move your world bone, to correct location.
  • On another layer, plant feet by eye balling the ball of the foot.

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