Xtion and iClone

Well, well. I find my new bargain depth-camera once worked with, of all things… iClone. To be specific, with iClone Pro 5 at 5.1 or above. Also required the Reallusion Mocap Device Plug-in v.1.1 (for the first Kinect for Xbox version, running the OpenNI 32-bit drivers). This plugin is not in the 5.x Resource Pack and is now utterly unavailable.

I discovered the iClone 5 compatibility because, many years ago, the official forum moderator stated of the Asus Xtion and iClone 5.x…

“The Asus Xtion will work with the Primesense/Open NI version of the plugin, but it lacks the advanced features of the Kinect For Windows version, including Near Mode and Head Rotation.”

This is confirmed by this screenshot, which shows the three mocap plugin packages then available with 5.1…

Great, though of course the Xtion camera owner must then have an archive somewhere of 5.x AND the first MoCap plugin (which had in it all the SDKs and other requirements). The latter was always a $150 purchase, never free or a bonus so far as I know, and I never bought it.

In practice, though… it may not have been terribly useful. It’s not as though you could do simultaneous face + body, driving the character in real-time WYSIWYG, and you’d be missing hand and head animations.