Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL

Subject: BVH Files?

cainbrogan opened this issue on Feb 27, 2002 ยท 7 posts

cainbrogan posted Wed, 27 February 2002 at 3:58 AM

I'd Like to get a Max pose into Poser4. I've found a motion capture plugin for Max, but really want to use Poser4. Can point objects, in a 3DS Max screen file, be exported as a BVH file? Is there a conversion technique available i.e. Max to X and Y or Z to obtain a BVH?

VirtualSite posted Wed, 27 February 2002 at 9:00 AM

I don't know if it can do this, but you might try working with Blender (sorry, don't know their web address, but a yahoo search should show it pretty quick).

wolf359 posted Wed, 27 February 2002 at 12:01 PM

you can take a .3DS character animation file into Lifeforms from Credo interactive and export it as a BVH file but because the BVH file is joint mapped for a MAX biped,it will be useless in poser unless you first import the poser figures skeleton into liforms and joint map it to the BVH file you got from 3Dstudio MAX ive done this using life forms and a friends machine that is running max3 a major Hassle im afraid !!



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cainbrogan posted Wed, 27 February 2002 at 3:45 PM

Darn I'd save thousands if I can could find a simple way to get from .3ds to BVH. How long does the whole conversion take 2, 4, 6 hours..? This plugin exports data to a CSM file for Character Studio or TRC, SoftImage's native motion capture format,b ut then somehow we need to get to BVH for Poser4...

wolf359 posted Wed, 27 February 2002 at 5:03 PM

it takes 5 seconds with lifeforms studio
as long as you have a .3DS animation file lifeforms can convert to BVH by simple export as BVH



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cainbrogan posted Wed, 27 February 2002 at 8:08 PM

WHy did you write this "the BVH file is joint mapped for a MAX biped,..."it will be useless in poser unless you first import the poser figures skeleton into liforms and joint map it to the BVH file you got from 3Dstudio MAX " When will we need to loint map the Poser figures skeleton(Geometries Directory Mesh...) to a BVH? And when would we have gotten a BVH from Max?

scaramouche posted Thu, 28 February 2002 at 3:25 PM

Blender's address is http://www.blender3d.com The free 3D suite program is available on a wide variety of platforms, including Windoze 9x-ME-2K and Mac OS(only version X- no earlier versions). It used to fit nicely on a floppy (under 1.4MB) but now runs about 1.6MB. The interface is like nothing you've ever seen. There was a short tutorial on the web that I saw about a month ago that showed how to convert BVH files so that they're Poser-ready, but I didn't write it down or store it under my bookmarks. If you search for Blender and BVH you'd probably find it.