Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: BVH import in Poser 6 and Poser 7

PhilC opened this issue on Jan 28, 2008 ยท 37 posts


Dale B posted Thu, 31 January 2008 at 3:57 AM

Quote - What I would like is to combine 2 BVH files together. I have tried this in Poser but what happens usually is the 2nd BVH goes back to the 0 position of the figure instead of where the figure was last at and does not keep the last frame pose.
I got a copy of IClone SE in a PC magazine I subscribe to. IClone is suppose to be able to edit BVH files but I have not found away using SE.

The only successful way I've done this is; 1) Load the first bvh (Make sure you've written down the lengths of all your motion files, so you know how many frames each one has). 2) Go to the total frame count window, take that frame number, add it to the frame count of the 2nd bvh, then add however many transitional frames you think it will take to go from the last frame pose of bvh 1 to the first frame pose of bvh 2. 3) Move your frame counter past the transition time, where you have enough frames left at the sequence end to import bvh 2, then import it. 4) If you scrub the timeline, you should have both bvh files, and the transistion time. Now open the graph editor and start correcting the inevitable wild swings of limb, and XYZ skating all over the place between 1 & 2. 5) And it wouldn't hurt at all to just start a scratch folder and save your work at every major benchmark(successful import, X translation correction, Y translation correction, etc. Get in that habit, and the amount of repair work you have to do when you screw something beyond repair is lessened; just roll back to the last save, and all you've lost is the single axis of movement you were working on)