i posted this elsewhere and then thought it made more sense here.
i've included example fbx files in the original post

http://www.ipisoft.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5261&sid=b6d2a4ae9c1455001c8b31a4cecd4ab9

apologies if this is obvious but......

why are the bones named "ipi:*" on bvh export? i load a target fbx in, everything matches up with the standard motionbuilder names. then i export the mocap and i notice that the names have "ipi:*" in front of them now. so my software (lightwave) doesn't merge the data into the character scene. is there an option to have more standard namings somewhere? at the moment i have to rename everything manually in lightwave.

thanks in advance

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