Using bone animation to drive character nodes

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Hello unti,

I have been trying to map the Kinect’s ‘absolute’ rotations to ‘relative’ rotations that could be used in skeletal animation too, for a while. It took me quite some trial and error to get there, but I think I am close to a usable version.

I attached a patch that first creates matrix transforms from the 3 Kinect’s rotation vectors, and then tries to get the ‘relative’ rotations out of it.

I hope this helps (i don’t know if this is more efficient), but I am also curious about your approach, so I’d be glad if you posted a patch of yours, so I can see how you managed to do it.

kinect skeleton.zip (251.9 kB)