AnyPose: The pose tool to rule them all?

Ohh, and someone had IM'ed me inworld about a demo, and I told them I would get back to them yesterday.... Errr.... I lost your avi name!

It should be possible to use it to make Tiny animations if you can tell it only to animate a subset of the joints.

The hud is done finally.

All that is left is documentation, and a little feedback from a couple people testing it.

I finished up AnyPose. It is now available on XStreetSL. Demo version and Demo site soon.

And inworld?

The SLX entry says it will be in-world soon. I am all agog.

I'm working on an in-world demo/vendor.

Ilsa Munro has graciously offered a demo site for AnyPose. Please come by and take a look.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Loch%20Avie/143/147/130/

Also, a free demo version is available on XstreetSL.

AnyPose 1.3 has been released. See the listing on XStreetSL for details.

There was a serious error in the display of the in-world avatar. If you did a complex rotation of the avatar in-world, it was not displayed correctly, and the exported BVH would show a different orientation.

Older saved poses with complex rotations (more than one axis) will not look the same in 1.3 as they did in 1.2.

Keyboard control now defaults to off. This is to side-step a bug in SL that was causing random joint movement as you right clicked on things around your avatar.

Hi,

What would be the best way to import the bvh file to blender?

Thanks

I have not used Blender, so I can't say for sure how to import. The BVH AnyPose creates is identical to a BVH exported from Poser, so you might search for how to import BVH into Blender for details. I've ran across articles on how to do it, but long forgotten where I saw them.

Hi Everyone, I Purchased the AnyPose today ( i also have u-poser) and OMG its great!!!.
Not only can you upload with ease you can Make poses without Uploading the BVH.
Just get up to 6 people on a stand and while the owner can only Control the HUD the other people can have an Input on what they want.Then its as simple as taking your photo's with a background of your choice or anyones choice.We played around for a couple of hours and we had so much fun.Its now my Fave thing in SL.

Thanks Phate

Thanks Biancajade!

BTW, version 1.31 with 2 more fixes is up.

Say Long reported the wrong value for Z rotation, and Load Last Pose was broken.

I had it pointed out to me the demo "push-up" pose in the Player is borked. It was made back when the rotations were incorrect.

If anyone wants the updated player with the fixed example push-up pose, let me know. Otherwise, no changes were made.

Thanks Ric for pointing that out.

Other stuff on the burner...


Added HTTP output from AnyPose v1.32:

Now you can just browse to a web page and get the BVH. The cool thing is, if you just reload the web page, it gets the current BVH. Of course it doesn't work with IE (What does) but works with all other browsers. It'll get released when all the sims have 1.27 servers.

AnyPose LIVE!

A wearable version of AnyPose that lets you fix poses made by others. Want a hand/arm/leg in a different position? No problem, enable it on the hud and move it! The rest of the joints stay where the original pose put them.

Trying to sort out how to make a version that photographers can give to their clients without making the client buy it. Not sure what I wanna do about that yet.

Would someone tell me: would a person buying this AnyPose still need Poser or something?

I can't get QV Animator to load. I've read the sticky about various poser software, but what is a good one for Mac that doesn't cost as much as Photoshop? Thanks.

If there is a cheap one in-world that would let me make my own animations that I'd 'own' outright (as much as can be in the game) that would work. For now I am only making these for SL.

I don't know the answer to your question about AnyPose, but you can buy a version of Poser for a Mac.

http://shop.smithmicro.com/v2.0-img/operations/smicro/site/511179_poser7/poseruk.html

It is less expensive than the full Photoshop CS4 from the Adobe shop - but about the same as a Photoshop upgrade to CS4 pack.

You can sometimes find Poser for sale on eBay and other offers, so it can be worth searching about.

I think it is only fair to warn you that Poser can take longer to learn than Photoshop - but there is a free trial download, so my advice is try before you buy.

I could never get Qavimator to load either. It would open, but as soon as you tried to load a file, it would freeze. Avimator (the older one) would load bvh files, but isn't nearly as advanced. That last version I found was Avimator 0.4.1 for the Mac that worked.

Another free option is DAZ studio. Pretty much all the power of Poser. Took me forever to figure out how to import a bvh.... but that may have been because it wasn't intuitive to me.

In-world, you can export frames from AnyPose to U-Poser, and build an animation in U-Poser.

curious if there's a way to demo this inworld while using another animation...
does it matter if the priority of the 'borked' anim that you're trying to work around/fix is a 4?
do you just wear it, adjust your av, and viola, instant fix no matter what?
(of course you could only adjust a static, single keyframe pose for photography but shoot, this is amazingly great)

Yes, AnyPose LIVE! can still fix P4 poses, since it is the last animation that takes priority, and all poses in AnyPose are P4.

Yep... it really only works for static poses... but there is still a lot of fun to be had changing the position of joints on an animated pose.

AnyPose LIVE! is nearing completion. Docs are nearly done. Added a Puppet feature to let you puppet another avatar... You can only imagine the possibilities with that one.... eeep.