You know what 3D Studio Max is? No? Kindly move on then, this story is only for certified Animation lovers (I prefer being called geek, though). Anyhow, so here is this guy named Melka on Vimeo, he has succeeded in using his Wii nunchuck controller to do mocap. Did you say “what the hell is mocap?”? I already asked you to leave!
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Uhh..Mocap is short for Motion Capturing, I am not going to explain more, use Wiki if you are still clueless. So Melka did it by connecting his Wii Nunchuck to an Arduino that in turn sends received signals to MIDI port on computer that is running MIDI app Ableton Live. Ableton Live then sends this data to 3D Studio Max using MIDI Yoke. If that went over the top (didn’t I ask you to leave?) then just catch the video below and get the idea.
Via: HackADay
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