Blender default_biped.xml K-Ceptor pitch reversed

Teleman

I've assembled the K-Ceptors and affixed them to the body. With the Blender plug in, I can connect and calibrate in the T pose.

But the head nods in the opposite direction, as well as dorsal bend forward is bending backwards. Seems that the pitch is reversed on the K-Ceptors. I've tried moving them around even side ways, opposite side, but the head nods and back bends in the reverse direction.

Head turns correctly as well as tilting head to right or left. Is this a calibration issue? Are there some settings I can flip rather than re-calibrate the K-Ceptor?

daylanKifky

Teleman
Are you calibrating with the performer facing south?

Teleman

daylanKifky ;-) Thanks, I just figured that out! I've made some other biped.xml files to use a set of K-Ceptors. Forgot to point them South first.

Cheers.

daylanKifky

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We will implement an overall heading calibration in the future, so it will be possible to calibrate facing any direction.

Teleman

daylanKifky I'd like to be able to Calibrate in Blender using additional poses other than T-pose. Would it be possible to position the avatar into a new calibration pose and calibrate on that? I am having difficulty getting hands to match up together -- when calibrating the T-pose, the height and position of the arms/hands/elbow must be strictly aligned otherwise the avatar's hands do not align well.

I'd like a way to manually adjust a KCeptor's calibration in Blender -- something to move the hands up or down to get them to align with each other and the mouth, etc.

daylanKifky

Absolutely. You have to modify the armature in edit mode, and then just stand in the Base pose you created while calibrating. Keep in mind that by modifying the armature you will loose the skinning of the avatar mesh, so if you want to visualize the capture with an avatar the skinning should be redone.

Keep in mind that, even if it's possible to adapt the calibration pose, it is normally recommended to make the capture sessions with another person the help you get a correct calibration pose.