Monday, March 30, 2020

BVH Retargeter

The BVH Retargeter is an add-on for Blender 2.80 and later. Its purpose is loading animations from BVH files to a given armature, and editing these animations in various useful ways. It is an updated and improved version of the MakeWalk add-on which I developed as part of the MakeHuman team.

The BVH Retargeter can be downloaded from the following locations:

Stable version 2.0: https://www.dropbox.com/s/gmkwymwu7obrh8q/retarget-bvh-v2.0-20200329.zip

Git repository: https://bitbucket.org/Diffeomorphic/retarget-bvh/src/master/

Documentation: http://diffeomorphic.blogspot.com/p/bvh-retargeter.html

Retargeting a BVH animation to an existing character consists of three easy steps:
  1. With the armature selected, press Load And Retarget.
  2. Select the BVH file in the file selector.
  3. The animation is loaded.
1. With the armature selected, press Load And Retarget.
2. Select the BVH file in the file selector.
3. The animation is loaded.