Truebones Motions are freindly with all major animation. 3D Max, Poser, Daz3D, Truespace, Bvhacker. High Quality Animation Files in FBX and BVH. When importing a BVH, it's important to make sure the file and the Poser figure to which it applies are set up the same.The main reason that BVH files (whether.

Quote - not everyone has time to make a movie of how it's done, max and poser are very time consuming we all have jobs to do. Unless your willing to pay us to do so. Also not everyone uses poser there is a few.

But we mainly model in max also some people don't have the capture software I think you misunderstood something. Quest pointed to a post where a video was mentioned which I couldn't find (and later did, I think).

I wasn't asking for one to be made. Having said that' have you every managed to import a Poser generated BVH into 3DS Max? Would you share how to do this? It's very difficult to import the BVH file into max because max uses it's own motion capture file. Some people have a motion capture suit and create their own mocap files.

If you have imported the model from poser into max and used the biped to rig your figure then you can use the max motion capture files. You could possible find a conversion software that lets you convert the BHV file over to BIP files. But nowadays they are hard to find. Especially when people don't need to use poser and they have the knowleage to model in max. I see now that link leads you to a site with converted cmu files to bvh.

Many years ago I did create a Poser bvh file and imported it into 3DSM but since I haven’t messed with Poser in quite some time I don’t remember the sequence or even if the same procedure would work with the latest versions of either program. With that said try creating a biped in 3DSM then go to the motion panel while the biped is selected. Under the motion panel go to the motion capture tab and click on the first icon to load a motion capture file making sure you first select bvh from the format drop down window and navigate to where your Poser bvh file is.

Click “OK” with all the dialogs that come up and watch your biped. Play the timeline player and see if the biped moves to the file. If it does then your character needs to be skinned with biped and the bvh file added to it for it to work in 3DSM. Also, do a search in this forum for bvh and several threads will come up that may be of further help to you.

It seems the bvh files created in Poser are not the same I’ve downloaded from those prior sites and won’t work as the others did. I’ve just tried importing a bvh file I created in Poser 5talk about refresher crash course into 3DSM 9 and it’s a no go. Unlike my other bvh files, It refuses to even open this file.

It’s obviously a translation problem between the two programs. The Poser file has too many variables that 3DSM doesn’t understand and is missing certain variables that 3DSM needs so it seems they’re two different systems. Being as the files are text oriented it might be possible to decipher the variable matrix used and translate it. I’m trying to remember if I used a converter back in the day or was I totally delusional. Thanks for checking this out.

Yes, that exactly the problem I'm experiencing. Apparently not all BVH files are same. And Poser's just won't laod in 3DS Max as is. There's a long list of 'parts' it doesn't recognise, ex.

So I tried changing the names from 'head' to 'Head', because I noticed in Max they seemed capitalised. But that didn't remove the 'head' as being an issue.

But I might play a bit more with the file to see if i can be fixed manually. The key is prob to check a BVH that does work vs Poser one and see what's different. So far I haven't been able to find a converter. Will keep looking.

LCA, Renderosity is a Poser oriented web site and many people use many of the different 2D and 3D software to enhance their Poser experience. It is a shared commonality in many respects. The popularity of Poser all over the Internet has resulted in many people creating and providing many free and commercial “bvh” animation files to be had. If you are interested in creating character 3DSM animation, what can be easier than importing a readymade “bvh” file which already does what you want it to? With minor tweaking it can save you tons of time and animation sequence work and especially if it’s free. I can certainly see the value in being able to cross interlink between different software and a common file format.

It’s very much like Wavefront’s “obj” or Adobe ”ai” file formats with 3DSM for examplereal time and work savers. Using DAZ 3D I imported the Aiko character and then imported Bowl_100.p2z animation set from Poser 5’s Poser 1-4 Poses. I then exported this out as a bvh file and named it “Bowl”. Quote - Why do you have to use the BVH files? What is the big deal with them? Why don't use just use the biped files that comes with max it's a lot simpler to use if your having so much trouble with them. The reason I need to import Poser BVH files is because I animate in Poser.

So importing my own animations, ones I wouldn't be able to find out there. To be honest I've studied Max animation techniques a little (not extensively by any means), like biped, own rigs with bones, bonespro they all look much harder to do besides the fact that you have to rig first. With Poser you've got a fully rigged char, that you can animate very smoothly and fairly easily.

The only advantage 3ds max has is that you have modifiers, can edit the mesh and better rendering, which is why I need to move the animation across. Anyone experienced with 3ds max and Poser animation have a different opinion, I'd like to know:). Attached Link: Quote - the only advatange of max is it comes with modifers! That's complete toss max come with a lot more thing than modifiers from video post, special effects, AEC tools etc!

So you cannot just narrow it down to the modifiers yes it's takes longer to use but when you get into the nitty gritty you see how much you have to work with then poser. Why did you spend $35 hundred plus the license if you only look at the modifiers?

Try exploring the program before you narrow it down to the modifers. I know 3ds Max can do more, which is why I'm making the move, I was specifically referring to character animation. I'm not even refering to rigging, cause as you know Poser characters come fully rigged. I don't want rig I want to animate! Now if you tell me that it's easier to animate a rigged character with 3ds max than it is with Poser then I'll be listening closely! Because that I haven't seen as yet. I'm not sure if it was posted here before, but here's alink to rigged V4 Biped for 3ds max http://www.sharecg.com/v/39226/3D-Model/Rigged-3DS-Max-biped-for-DAZ-Victoria4.

Trac Many of us have been struggling with this problem for a long time. Looking back in my notebooks I see entries from 1998 that talk about this and the various things I tried. As you know Poser has rigged characters that work reasonably well (extreme bends not so much). And there is a lot of reasonably priced content available to make most animators very happy. Poser's rendering engine however is slow and not so good looking. And building a decent set in another 3D app and bringing it in is awkward. Max on the other hand has so many tools and options for an animator that it's hard to turn away from it.

Max rigging is a craft that takes a long time to master. Rigging, skinning and facial morphs are very challenging and I bow to those who do it well. The Poser hosting programs do work. The back in the day of Poser 4 and Max 3.1 it was very good actually.

The current Poser Pro plug-in works but it's very buggy. I have gotten some very pretty results with it and Vray so you might want to think about it. I think after all these years that the only real answer though is to leave the comfort of Poser and spend a few months (or even years) learning how to rig, animate and render in Max. But that is a personal choice.

I hope this is of some use to you in making a decision. Thank you pixelwks, yes that a good explanation and confirmed basically my thinking about 3ds max animation Is it worth me spending the months maybe even years of time with modelling and rigging if that's not what I want? I don't enjoy modelling and rigging, I enjoy sculpting and animation. In the end modelling and rigging are unnessary parts of the equation as long as you are given sufficiently good starting points. V4 is sufficiently good as a model, the thought of modelling teeth, tongue, toes, sends shivers down my spine. Only top modellers can compete and I've seen many, many character desaster even by modellers with some experience.

The key is cusomisation and that you don't achieve with modelling but rather sculpting, in fact most of the professionals use sculpting these days afaik, you'd be silly to model when you have sculpting imho. You can achive far better, precise details much faster with sculpting anyway. Same deal with rigging, Poser gives you the tools and rigged character where you can be of ANIMATING from day one rather than spend months trying to work out the process with 3DS Max as you say. Dials are much easier than even the click and rotate that you have with a 3DS Max biped and you get better results for the most part.

All anatomy behaves correctly pretty much. You just need to know when to turn inverse kinematics on and when off.

If you have extreme bends they're easily fixed with either morphs or sculpting. As I said 3DS Max has the modifiers and rendering to finish the animation that you must have. But the character animation process itself seems far easier in Poser.

Daz Studio / Poser / Carrara users: you probably want instead. 3dsMax users: you probably want instead.

June 26, 2010: I've now re-released the Motionbuilder-friendly BVH conversion of the CMU motion files with some minor improvements to the frame-1 T pose. I recommend the 2010 release over the original 2008 release, however links to both data sets are available below. Please see the for details of the minor changes. There have been no changes to the actual CMU motion data or to the bone structure or names -- only the initial T pose, which isn't part of CMU's original dataset to begin with, has changed.

March 22, 2011: all download links on this page were broken because MediaFire deleted all files without notifying me, but should be fixed now. - Bruce _____________________________. Announcement: Over 2500 free human motion BVH files now available at cgspeed.com Aug. 30, 2008: see also my about animation retargeting. July 22, 2008 I'm happy to announce the free release of an enhanced BVH conversion of the entire set of 2548 human motions from the. This is a large set of professionally-captured human motions of a wide variety of types, suitable for use in animation software, which has not previously been available in BVH format. The emphasis on this release is to produce BVH files that can rapidly be used in MotionBuilder for motion retargetting.

The files are free to use worldwide for any purpose. Advantages of this BVH release over the: - This release has the motions in the more commonly used BVH format rather than the original ASF/AMC format. - T-poses: Every BVH file has a T-pose added as its new first frame. The T-pose faces the positive Z axis and therefore is MotionBuilder compatible. - Joint renaming: As many joints as possible have been renamed to be compatible with MotionBuilder's joint naming conventions.

This renaming makes it much easier (faster) to use the BVH files in MotionBuilder. - Index/information files: The release includes consolidated indexes that list the motion filenames and their descriptions. Both spreadsheet and word processor friendly index files are available. This means that you don't just get a pile of 2548.bvh files where you don't know anything about the motions. Almost every.bvh file has a text description, and those descriptions are all in a single that you can print or sort.

- MotionBuilder-friendly: the joint renaming and the addition of the T-pose make it possible to use these motions for animation retargetting within MotionBuilder in seconds rather than minutes. __________________________________________________________________________ 2010 RE-RELEASE DOWNLOAD LINKS AND CAVEATS: The BVH Conversion Release is available as several separate.zip files.

Because Google Sites, where I host much of the cgspeed.com content, incredibly doesn't allow file hosting larger than 10MB per file (!), I've hosted the files at MediaFire, which requires that you download each file from one of their ad display pages. MediaFire also unfortunately sometimes launches pop-up windows with ads, so please be prepared to close down the desktop window spam that their site creates. Please note that the directory numbers aren't necessarily sequential - sometimes the CMU dataset skips some numbers. So when you unzip the following files, you won't always end up with individual directories for every integer in the numeric range. The links immediately below are for the 2010 re-release of the Motionbuilder-friendly BVH files.

Download Software Ultimate Spider Man Patch From Days. These are presently (June 2010) the recommended release. See the for a description of the minor changes since the 2008 release.

BVH Motion Converter - BVH Resources What is BVH? BVH - BioVision Hierarchy file There are a number of different file formats for holding motion capture data, one of the most common is defined by company called BioVision. A BVH file is designed for holding movements generated by motion capture, but there is no reason why computer generated movements should not also be stored in this way. It is a compact way of storing the motion, at it is independent of the details of the geometry. However this file data is specific to the hierarchy and body dimensions of the character, so although you can transfer movements from one character to another, you will have to scale it for each character model. Do All BVH files work with iClone Motion Converter? Not all BVH files will work with the iClone Motion Converter.

BVH files need to have a 'Profile' for the iClone Motion Converter to understand how to convert the BVH file into iClone's CHB motion file format. Where can you find BVH files for iClone? *Profiles downloadable below are for 1.52 users only.

IClone 2.0 includes all new BVH profiles in the program. Currently the iClone Motion converter contains profiles for BVH files made by: • Animazoo - • Download the Animazoo iClone Profile for Motion Converter. • (Latest update: ) • Place the Animazoo.PRF profile file in this locatoin: C: Program Files Reallusion BVH Motion Converter • Animazoo BVH files can be directly loaded into iClone's Motion Converter to convert for iClone • Motek - • Motek's motion files need to first be converted from.UMF to BVH with the Motek converter • Go to the URL above for Motek and browse the 'Stock Moves' Library and select your motions • You will need to download the Motek converter to convert the motion files from Motek to BVH format. • Download the Motek BVH file creator here: • Poser 6 • Download the Poser6 BVH profile for iClone Motion Converter. • For iClone 1.52 users, (Customized for Poser6 SR2(Service Release 2). Latest update: ), and place the Poser6BVH.PRF profile file in this locatoin: C: Program Files Reallusion BVH Motion Converter • For iClone2 users, please directly select Poser6_SR2 profile in BVH converter for BVH conversion • In order to generate iClone compatible BVH data from Poser6 or Poser7, users must use default Poser figure James to edit motion, and select option 'scale automatically' for BVH output.