Chordata format

shloopmoop

Hi all!
I am trying to understand the format of the data is actually being sent to the Blender Client and I can't seem to find a straight forward answer. Can anyone help with that / point me to the right files in the source code?

shloopmoop

Can I assume how the data is transmitted is described here? My understanding is that we simply use OSC protocol to send a string variable that has the name of the bone (described as a kceptor name) and the quaternion data values?

daylanKifky

You got it right, the quaternion data is sent as OSC messages with the format:

/Chordata/(name_of_the_bone) <,ffff> [ quat.w, quat.x, quat.y, quat.z]
#the <,ffff> part is the OSC typetag, in most implementation you won't have to deal with it.

Unfortunately there's still no explicit documentation about this communication (it was suposed to be included in this document, but it was never finished)

We are currently working in a complete consolidation of all the docs to be published together with our upcoming official release. They will include detailed explanation on how this and others protocols used in the chordata system are structured.