I'm pleased to announce the most recent BVH conversion of the Carnegie-Mellon (CMU) motion capture library. The new conversion is for the Daz (daz3d.com) 3rd-generation and 4th-generation characters such as Aiko3, Aiko4, Victoria3, Victoria4, Michael3, Michael4, and so on. Over 2500 separate BVH files are available, with an index. You can get the files right here at cgspeed.
Other people have previously done releases of the CMU motion dataset for the Daz characters or "for Poser", however sometimes there are significant problems using these earlier releases. This new "official cgspeed.com" release was created via a full retargeting in Motionbuilder, and is designed to import seamlessly into programs like Daz Studio when you use any of the Daz gen3 or gen4 characters.
Two training videos are available (in HD):
Part 1: www.vimeo.com/13777740
Part 2: www.vimeo.com/13777422
This Daz-friendly release is actually two separate releases: a "primary" and a "secondary" release. The difference between these two releases is explained in the second training video, and in the full READMEFIRST file of the primary release. Generally you should start with the primary release, and only get the secondary release if you think you need it -- see the second training video for an example.
Thanks to John Lukasiewicz for doing the initial heavy lifting on the Motionbuilder Python script that enabled this release. No thanks to Autodesk for having bugs in their BVH export code, which I had to correct around. :-O
AFFILIATION AND DISCLAIMER: I (Bruce) am not affiliated with and don't speak for Carnegie-Mellon University, Daz Productions, Autodesk, or Smith Micro, and they don't speak for me. :-)
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Just saw that you finished these Daz conversions and wanted to say thank you for all your time and effort doing that. i also really appreciate the tutorials on Vimeo. i'm watching/listening to the first one right now as i'm writing this.
i'm really anxious to give these a go! Again i really appreciate your doing this for the community. i don't have Motion Builder any more so this is a great resource you are opening up for another whole group of people.
Jeff
Why on earth would you post these file to a fracking major ad loop place like Mediafire?
Seriously who wants to go through all that to find nothing but ads - and no clear download link.
Total frackin BS. that just pisses people off trying to download when you seemed sinsere in providing the files.
so... now that i said that - were are the frackin files? i still can't find the links once at Media Fire. Just adds and missleading download links.
Send me the files and I'll host them at a respectable place - where people can actually download what they are after with out spending 20 minutes looking and finding nothing.
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