Yesterday I spent about five minutes capturing (and then a total of less than 20 minutes in iClone) creating this possibly last test (because I can't see not keeping the hardware and buying the software). I was just fooling around trying to see how long it might take me to generate some crowd type scenes (answer -- ridiculously a small amount of time. I was actually pretty foolish in that I kept getting up off my sofa and moving down, being a real idiot in not thinking I could just cut the clip into pieces. Sigh -- I'm old).
I also experimented with "picking up" an object -- I will need a better focus point to do this, as I was a bit off on my second effort around the non-existent table (to be fair, when I made my second pass one of my cats decided it was a good time to visit me. I can actually tell when she rubs against my foot, as it slips a tiny bit then. I think I'll need to shut them out when I do critical captures). And I'm still not doing the hands right -- when I was pantomiming picking the object up I forgot about holding the controller in my offhand correctly, so it looks a bit disjointed. I have to get used to holding them straighter. Also, having issues still with the Leap controller. Sigh -- there really needs to be a countdown before it starts the capture.
Finally, I just substituted Zane in there for the second test. In retrospect this doesn't work well, as his proportions don't match up with the android. So the hands slip around a lot (remember -- I didn't edit ANY of the motions. The hands appear to "slip" but in reality it's just the vase that's moving around in them. That's the only animation that I actually did on the timeline. But for Zane I needed to redo that animation because I don't even think his hand pivot point is the same, so when he "picks up" the vase it doesn't look nearly as convincing).
Again, very, very little time spent doing any of this. To clean up the animation I really should take at least another 10-15 minutes but since I'm not going to use any of this for anything I don't care.
Alienware Aurora R16, Win 11, i9-149000KF, 3.20GHz CPU, 64GB RAM, RTX 4090 (24GB), Samsung 870 Pro 8TB, Gen3 MVNe M-2 SSD, 4TBx2, 39" Alienware Widescreen Monitor
Mike "ex-genius" Kelley