Ahh good I'm glad it helped. Some more quick info about biped and MotionBuilder (separate app) The layers in biped can be handy in helping clean up mocap by giving you a new layer to key over the top of the old. You can also capture a few key poses and some inbetweens using the copy/paste poses (I name them the frame they…
Anyone know where i can buy or get hold of any decent bip / 3dsmax mocap walk cycles? can't seem to find anything online via google or turbosquid. I may have missed something and sorry if this has been asked before, though I did use TFSE
About the hands: You could load the .bvh file save out a.bip file, go back to your original biped, and load the .bip into motion mixer and filter out the hands. That way you're not fighting with the .fig files. As a general rule of thumb mo-cap won't include finger animation, if you're lucky you might get some wrist/palm…
Thanks again. I really need to look into learning my way around motion mixer. I actually spent a year abroad in California where I did a short graduate mocap course at UCI and now you mention it we never did any finger stuff. My experience with optical mocap was that it was extremely messy with loads of cleanup work (even…
http://sites.google.com/a/cgspeed.com/cgspeed/motion-capture/3dsmax-friendly-release-of-cmu-motion-database A large library of 3dsmax friendly .bvh files. They are smartly organized with a handy little excel doc. They also have 3dsmax specific help docs listed under the downloads. I've only glanced at them but they seem to…
A bunch free mocap here. Raw and unlooped, but decent quality, and lots of variations. http://mocap.cs.cmu.edu/ More free mocap here. Though it took some time to receive the d/l link IIRC. http://stockmoves.e-motek.com/