Set up a kickstarter possibly? From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of activemotionpictu...@yahoo.com Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2012 9:40 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Any interest in a Kinect for Windows and/or XBox controller capture driver?
Yes please. Oh so much, this will be so helpful to drive things like puppeteering!! A dream come true! Conectado por DROID en Verizon Wireless -----Mensaje original----- De: Halim Negadi <hneg...@gmail.com> Para: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Enviado: dom, jul 22, 2012 18:41:25 GMT+00:00 Asunto: Re: Any interest in a Kinect for Windows and/or XBox controller capture driver? Highly interested as well ! On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 6:28 PM, Gmail <arma...@gmail.com<mailto:arma...@gmail.com>> wrote: I'm also interested. On Jul 22, 2012, at 10:21 AM, michael johansson <mich...@lowend.se<mailto:mich...@lowend.se>> wrote: > I would be interested. > > /michael Johanson > > 2012/7/22 Muhamad Faizol Abd. Halim > <faizol....@gmail.com<mailto:faizol....@gmail.com>>: >> I'm interested in what you're offering at that price point, but it would >> much more helpful if we can have more information about it (like a blog or >> something detailing the tools you're promoting, some how tos etc). >> >> Having said that, there's an article on phoronix.com<http://phoronix.com> >> about using kinect >> devices with Qt toolkit on Linux (Maemo); >> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTEyODY >> >> The Qt Air Cursor is LGPL licensed and built atop the OpenNI library and >> OpenCV. Code for Qt Air Cursor can be found here; >> https://github.com/nemein/Qt_AirCursor >> >> I imagine that if you can develop that using Qt toolkit, it would be cross >> platform and can be maintained using just a single source, if done properly. >> >> Cheers, >> Faizol >> >> >> >> >> On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 5:10 AM, Eric Cosky >> <e...@cosky.com<mailto:e...@cosky.com>> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> >>> >>> #1, I recently wrote an application that captures bone data from a Kinect >>> for Windows devices (Important: this is not the XBox Kinect) and sends it to >>> a device driver running in Softimage. It is a functional solution for >>> getting the raw skeletal motion data into Softimage using the device driver >>> interface. I know there is already an ICE-based Kinect solution out there, >>> but this takes a different approach by using a device driver which I find a >>> little more to my liking. I can observe values in a custom parameter set and >>> pull the values from there to do whatever I need with them such as binding >>> in ICE or more basic expressions. Plus I don’t have to run the simulation to >>> see what is going on, you just activate the driver and it works even while >>> Softimage is sitting in pause mode. >>> >>> >>> >>> #2, I also wrote a driver that is designed to work with Xbox-style >>> controllers. The input data is provided as positional data and all driver >>> item names are mapped to Xbox controller names. >>> >>> >>> >>> I’m wondering if there would be any interest in a bundle of these two >>> drivers & the support application for something around $50. I am really >>> under the gun to get my next game out (I’m a solo indie game dev) and I just >>> can’t spend any more time on it unless I have some hope it can pay for the >>> time it would take me to make a proper release out of it. >>> >>> >>> >>> I don’t want to assume anyone has any interest at all, and won’t be >>> surprised if there isn’t. I wrote these for my own needs and find them >>> useful so I am happy with that. However, if these sound like tools you would >>> like, please let me know. If enough people want access to them then I can >>> wrap up a few loose ends, do some more testing and do the various things I’d >>> have to do. If a lot of people expressed interest I would be keen to add >>> support for Kinect face tracking data as well as a plug-in mechanism to >>> allow people to easily filter the skeleton data with a .NET DLL prior to >>> handing the data to Softimage. It’s all doable but I can only take the time >>> if it makes business sense which I can only hope everyone understands. >>> >>> >>> >>> Here are some screenshots: http://imgur.com/a/7ayDJ >>> >>> >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> >>> >>> Eric Cosky >>> >>> >> >> > > > > -- > Michael Johansson > Artist/Senior Lecturer/Researcher > Kristianstad University > Digital Design > 29188 Kristianstad > Email michael.johans...@hkr.se<mailto:michael.johans...@hkr.se> > > Infobloom > Grönegatan 4a > 222 24 Lund > Email: mich...@lowend.se<mailto:mich...@lowend.se> > > www.lowend.se<http://www.lowend.se> > www.abadyl.com<http://www.abadyl.com> >
