Animation Forum

[Elsie Broek]

I've just started using this application and downloaded the user playable animation BVHs. Qavimator loads these fine, but any other other BVH file crashes it! Does anyone have any deas why?

[Coaldust Numbers]

QAvimator tends to either display a corrupt model (e.g. the head is attached to the shoulder) or crash outright when the BVH file doesn't match Second Life's skeleton, or if there is anything at all odd about its formatting (e.g. extra channels).

Most BVH files can't be used for Second Life, or at least they can't without significant hacking around (in, for example, bvhacker) to 'port' them.

QAvimator is mostly useful for making static poses and sanity checking animations made for Second Life.  If you need anything 'fancy', including something that supports extra channels or advanced animation techniques (e.g. inverse kinematics) you'll need to use something else (e.g. Blender properly configured).

[Medhue Simoni Advisor]

Qavimator does not have a way to reconfigure the skeletons. You would need to use another program to do this. Poser and Dazstudio both can, pretty simply, retarget any bvh to the SL skeleton. Poser is straight forward once you have the default SL avatar in the scene. Daz is similar but you might have to check the right options.

[Elsie Broek]

I've tried using Blender a while ago for other purposes and didn't realise it also did that. I don't think I can afford Poser. I'm trying to get the animations and poses created quickly, so I might checkout both Blender and DAZ later. In any case I guess I've give up on trying to import other BVH files for now, and just create the things from scratch. 

[Osprey Therian Member]

BVHacker will fix skeletons.

[kakprp]

BVHacker is the best way to get it done.

[Cyzicus Xue]

Although it may depend on where the .bvh file comes from, but anytime I open a .bvh file in Qavimator, I immediately Optimize it to clear out the extra keyframes, and save as an .avm file.  Then I close and load the .avm file.  If you can get thru that process, you will be better off.