Hey Everyone,

For facial mocap, Yes. That will be a feature in iClone 6 pretty soon. Right now we are already working with Microsoft’s updated Kinect SDK, and also Intel’s PrimeSense to see how we can integrate them with iClone for facial mocap. (I’ll show you guys some sneak previews once I’ve got some cool videos at hand) For the FBX facial mocap, the issue that we normally have is that there are so many characters with different facial rigging, and they all have to be standardized in order to be used inside iClone’s Universal Avatar system. That is why we have 3DXchange, in order to covert them to iClone-ready characters. So naturally FBX is the direction that we want to go in, but there are many things and standards we need to hammer out first.

A Timeline Curve editor (animation graph editor) is a feature that high-end applications like Maya always have. They are complicated, you need to know what you are doing, and they give you beautifully detailed control over every little bit of your animation… I can see why some masochists might want it. Haaa! j/k It shouldn’t be to hard to implement into iClone, but the truth is that we have so much on our plate right now that it would have to come later. Another thing is——the vision and direction that we have for iClone.

Since its inception iClone has always been about making real-time animations in a smooth and organic way. Allowing literally anyone to create quick and decent looking animations in no time at all without the need for vast training, experience or effort. This has always been the dream for iClone, and we are always looking into the future to newer technology that can allow us break down the barriers between animation and the human interface. You can tell that we are slowly inching towards that dream. Now if we implement a Timeline Curve Editor, it sort of defeats the purpose of iClone’s organic animation creation, and it simply bunches us with all the other professional tools out there. I am not saying that it would not enhance iClone, it would, but we are trying to go in a different direction >>> we are trying to create an animation system that will allow people to organically create animations, and later seamlessly blend 2, 3 or more animations together. Just like the MixMoves system we originally built, but something that can be used for almost any type of motion. Now throw in this capability for mocap generated animations, and we are really cooking——- For example, at the moment we are working to develop an automatic locomotion system that will calculate your character’s steps by taking into consideration speed, distance, length of limbs, tempo of animation, style of animation, terrain and others. A system that will automatically calculate and create everything for you without the need to actually go into each X,Y,Z axis for rotation and translation in order to get the proper transition curve. Our belief is that computer processors are getting faster and cheaper, and we want to help you exploit that. So let the machine do all the work! Enough with the old-school way of manually having to create everything…. AMEN? grin (I should have been a preacher)


So you see what we are trying to do right?
Eventually, we will have to add a timeline curve editor. It makes sense to do so. But its not going to happen just right this quarter. =)

mtakerkart (4/11/2015)

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The probleme for me is that it doesn't works with the free Unity 5, only with the 4th version.
What is Mobu ?

For the facial mocap , it's coming. This is what Realtimer from Reallusion said on DAZ forum about my questions:

Mobu : Motion Builder

rampa (4/11/2015)

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The Motion Builder version is no longer available.