[X3D-Public] Fwd: Semantic X3D and the desire for motion capturelibraries for X3D

[GLG]

I think you're right on the button there John.

Joe if you're listening, I've tried to look at the
'ISO-IEC-19775 X3D Component 26 Humanoid Animation' on the
'H-Anim Working Group' page but the link is broken. Was that
the same as I found here? 

http://www.web3d.org/x3d/specifications/ISO-IEC-19775-1.2-X3
D-AbstractSpecification/Part01/components/hanim.html

Thanks,
Lauren

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From: John Carlson <john.carlson3 at sbcglobal.net>
Date: May 4, 2010 10:49:47 PM PDT
To: Dave A <dave at realmofconcepts.com>
Subject: Semantic X3D and the desire for motion capture
libraries for X3D


On May 4, 2010, at 9:07 PM, Dave A wrote:



And I bless efforts to make a more semantic type of 3d. I
came at this from game authoring tools
where you could author something to 'spin' (with a speed and
axis, not a bunch of key frames)
or that something 'moves when bumped into' and so forth.
This is a higher-level description which
can be down-converted to X3D, very hard to go the other way.
Tools should make it very simple
for the non-programming artist, and produce the underlying
code/structures as needed (this is what
my Unreal converter does, btw).  Specifying things
semantically is far more portable, if that's the
goal.

I agree, if I want my avatar to dance as an end user, I
shouldn't have to deal with transforms, points etc.  I
should be able to download the dancing behavior I want and
apply it to my avatar.  Let's make a market out of selling
motion.  Cars are a wonderful example of this.  Here's
another: http://playstation.joystiq.com/2009/06/19/quantic-d
ream-selling-motion-capture-libraries/  Let's convert free
mocap library data to stuff that X3D and H-Anim can
use...see: http://mocap.cs.cmu.edu/  I'm such a newbie, I
don't even know what kind of mocap data H-Anim, X3D or VRML
takes!  Can someone fill me in?  I see 123 .bvh files on the
web.  Can they be converted to h-anim?  It looks like you
can go from .asf/.amc to .bvh  to something standard (from
NIST)  Here's all the asf and amc files on the CMU
site: http://mocap.cs.cmu.edu:8080/allasfamc.zip


Why isn't H-Anim featured on this
page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motion_and_gestur
e_file_formats
?

What luck have people had with converting from other
formats?

Thanks,

John