msulmanali wrote:
nuicapture they have face features, Its pretty common now, Like FaceFX, Faceshift are using simple methods for facial motion capture, I believe if you use more than 2 kinect it will improve the quality of motion tracking.
Does NUI support two Kinects now? I thought it was just using the standard MS Kinect SDK, which AFAIK is still single Kinect.
I might be mistaken but I think iPi Mocap Studio is the only dual Kinect system available. But I haven't looked around lately.
We use LightWave for all our lighting and rendering, and iPi Mocap Studio works great with it. We did
'Happy Box' with it and are currently working on
'Brudders 2' using this combo. I bring this up because during Siggraph this summer LW3DG released Nevron, which is their own Kinect based capture system--if you use LightWave, the $199 price was too good a deal to pass up.
Now, for body capture, it's definitely not a threat to iPi Mocap Studio--Nevron uses the standard single Kinect MS SDK, so it's nothing new. But for LightWave users, Nevron brings retargeting and editing directly into LightWave,
which is a big deal because this means you can also apply and edit mocap from any source, including iPi Mocap Studio, without having to go through Motion Builder or similar program. (iPi can retarget of course, but it doesn't really allow you to make changes or major corrections to the data.)
But I already have iPi Mocap Studio and Motion Builder, so why bother? Well, what really intrigued me is that Nevron allows you to use the Kinect data to drive any animateable parameter in the program, so you can use the Kinect for alternative forms of animation--imagine using the Kinect to animate textures or lighting, or other unusual forms of puppetry.
To keep this post on-topic, Nevron allows you to animate the face too. So, the way I see it Nevron will round out our mocap capabilities nicely, working as a perfect companion program with iPi Mocap Studio 2.
In the upcoming weeks, we hope to do some face tests, combining iPi Mocap Studio 2 and LightWave Nevron. Will post results if we're successful.
G.