Hands mocap with Leap motion
Today's tutorial will be fascinating. I am going to show you how to do hands motion capture using Blender which is free forever. Download blender and NI-MATE software and plugin for blender. Install blender, ni-mate and leap motion drivers. Open Blender - User Preferences - Install Add on from file - Select Ni-Mate plugin file - Enable the add on in User Preferences tab in blender and Save User Settings. Connect the leap motion controller to your system. Resume tracking of leap motion in hidden icons of task bar. Open Ni-Mate - Go to Setup and check status whether the controller is connected and running and then go to Leap motion tab for live feed of motions.And you can select two output windows in various selections like 3D, ghost mode, left camera, right camera. Go to skeleton tracking in leap motion tab and enable OSC Skeleton for OSC feed to send data. You can change format of skeleton from basic to basic + orientation or animata, orientation, OSCeleton.