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Fixing delay and lag problems

Last week I ran into a couple of problems while trying to livestream mocap data from Rokoko to Unreal and project it with Optoma 4K laser cinema on the white wall in our lab. One thing that I have noticed is the difference between the image on PC vs. on

Repairing Rokoko suit

Earlier this week I encountered a problem with our Rokoko suit - the sensors were constantly in bootloader mode and the suit would not calibrate. After going through the power circle (https://support.rokoko.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410479064849-Some-or-all-of-the-sensors-on-the-Smartsuit-Pro-do-not-work ) multiple times in different days and failing, I realized that something

Invisible moving character that casts shadows in UE5

In order to make a moving character invisible, go to the character's blueprint, click on the skeletal mesh (on the right side) and then click on the material in the details (on the left). Now, we are in the material graph of the material instance. Inside details set

Recording motion capture in the Unreal

So, after we got all the pieces working we were able to record in both Rokoko and Unreal takes like: * Metahuman in the meadow, enjoying the nature and stretching * Holding objects and sitting down in the chair * Fighting * Directional jumps Observations: * Interaction with objects went good mostly because Rokoko gloves

Live stream from Rokoko to Unreal

In the beginning of my fifth week I was asked to create a Meadow scene in UE5, so we could have Emma (a graduate student in the writing department) come in and record a couple of demo scenes. During the first half of the week I learned how to easily

NeRF scans in Volinga

This week I have learned about how to import NeRF scans into UE5 using Volinga. To begin with, I have followed the documentation on Volinga’s official website and tried to set up the scene from sample .nvol files. It strangely not work until I deleted everything from the scene

Making a static copy of a website

Today Nick and I learned together how to create a static website copy: Using Hugo tutorial ( https://gohugo.io/getting-started/quick-start/ and https://github.com/jbarone/ghostToHugo and https://blog.notmyhostna.me/posts/my-ghost-to-hugo-migration/ ) download information from your Ghost website, new theme and template etc. Then, make sure that all

Faceware studio

Today I have learnt how to set up a Faceware studio and livestream it to MetaHumans in UE5 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW73jBWAoek ). The facial recognition in this program works for both live and/or media streaming. It is very cool and pretty straightforward once you download all

Reality Capture

During my first two weeks I have been introduced to a lot of new and exciting things like how to work in Unreal Engine 5 and Reality Capture. I have tried to follow the tutorial for scanning an object in real life and recreate its 3D version (https://www.youtube.