Mocap data with only upper part of body

[TMert]

Hi all!

So I want to map Mocap data on an actor. I have two markers in the face, one on the sternum, one on each shoulder and elbow respectively, and two on each wrist. I put the actor inside the marker dots, created a Markerset and dragged the markerpoints on the correspondent body parts in the Navigator. When I click activate, it looks like this:

What the heck?

So what I think could be the problem:

The origin is not on the floor. Since I only need the upper part of the body, my cameras don't show the feet, so setting the origin on the floor would be very impractical to me. Could this be the problem?

Or do I have too few markers? Then how many markers do I need to get it working?

Does anyone maybe have another idea?

Oh, if that's important, I use Motionbuilder 2015.

Thanks in advance!

[TheAnti-Fish]

Hello,

Regardless of how many markers you use, you cannot create an Actor without legs etc. MotionBuilder will *always* create a full biped Actor. You'll probably notice that only the arms/torso are moving and the rest is in a default T-Pose.

The Anti-Fish

[TMert]

Hi!

Yes I was aware of that, but thanks anyway 🙂 The problem was, that the markers didn't match up with the actor anymore when activating the Markerset.

But I already have a solution. Motionbuilder needs at least the hips as a reference. I manually added some markers on the hips, now it works.

TMert