Which software would you like Chordata to integrate with?

daylanKifky

As you might know, we are preparing the official release for the first half of this year. It will include a systematic rework on the software side with the primary goal of making the system easier to use, and better expose the great flexibility it offers.

As part of this process we are thinking about the possible integrations that need to be developed (beyond blender, which is always a given 😃). You know, even if the clear and easy protocols allow to use the mocap data in almost every software without much hassle, having a couple of plugins, addons, powerups, SDKs or whatever they are called would make things easier for many users.

So, which integrations would you like to see released in the future?

asgalusha

daylanKifky Maybe Maya, IClone, Unreal Engine, Cryengine, and/or Unity, these are all great programs that are widely used for sfx, game development, and animation. But since that is a lot to ask for, maybe you can seek the help from the community and make these implementations into other programs heavily open source (this would probably be harder to manage but because of it being free, easy to manipulate, and cheap labor, it's a win win for both studios who purchase Chordata and you guys).

valor

Unity would be great. It's very popular here in Scandinavia from personal experience. Most of the game-dev clubs and school activities related to engaging young pupils seem to be Unity involved.

luiscepeda

I think that iClone is a must for an open source project like this... it will rise Chordata's growing to sky.

Zoombapup

I've got plans for doing Unreal Engine and Unity integrations. In particular UE4 as that's my engine of choice for my research work. So if I can't get a student to do it, I'll do that myself. There's also a mechanism to do that via the liveview plugins, although of course it's completely undocumented 🙂

Unity would probably be easier to do. But I'd have to finish that after the UE4 version, just because I need the latter more than the former. Of course whatever I do will be open sourced.

Guilherme

I would like to use chordata with mikumikudance or mikumikumoving. it would be amazing a chordata plugin to use with mmd or mmm. many people would like to see this happen. the mmd and mmm community is very large.

konokaiden

bristle2008

Not that this is particularly important for your post, but Maya and 3DS Max are free for students and teachers. Autodesk's website offers an educational license for no charge.

Guilherme

I do MMD as well, and it's true that it would be great for that. MMD already has a plugin for the Kinect live capture, but Kinect raw data is not great unless you have a pretty ideal setup. That's why I wanted to use sensors instead, because that didn't work so well for me. Luckily, if you can do the capture itself in Blender (free), there's a plugin (mmd tools) which allows you to export motions or models to MMD formats. I'm planning to do the same for Autodesk products by exporting to FBX if possible. I'm not so well-versed on Blender, I'm good with 3DS and I'm learning more about Maya. I started with MMD, but it has many limitations on what you can do yourself, so that's why I'm in-between: an MMD style using a different program. Especially because clothing and UV editing are super easy in 3DS, that's the one of choice at the moment. But I don't like how skinning/weight painting works, so it's just about playing the strengths of each program for me.

DigitalStages

It would be amazing to have an add-on for openFrameworks. As an Artist using C++ beside Python, this would greatly apply to applications for dance performances and other interactive installations.

bristle2008

When i talk about Motion Control i mean real-time control. The only one that i know that has these properties:
Blender; Maya and Motionbuilder are too expensive.

Free ones but mostly source are closed and BVH or some other format like BVH:
DAZ3D, MDD, XnaLara, and Second Life (client is open source, server is not)

Free one and has potential:
Unity, C sharp, mostly open source
UE4, C++, all open source

See these articles on UE4
https://www.enter-reality.it/blog/how-to-use-unreal-engine-for-full-body-motion-capture-use-case-and-in-depth-review-of-noitom-perception-neuron-and-ikinema-orion

and the tread:
https://forums.unrealengine.com/development-discussion/animation/1625785-unreal-engine-for-full-body-motion-capture-in-depth-review-of-perception-neuron-and-ikinema-orion

Unity and UE4 are the most popular game engines and UE4 is gear toward virtual studio.

emo10001

Definitely Blender at the least. Godot would be great too. Keeping in the spirit of FOSS

Teleman

I suggest iClone iMotionLive device with Chordata plug in. 😀