{"id":12114,"date":"2019-11-07T17:05:54","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T17:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/?p=12114"},"modified":"2019-11-07T17:05:54","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T17:05:54","slug":"bvh-motion-converter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/2019\/11\/07\/bvh-motion-converter\/","title":{"rendered":"BVH Motion Converter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A little more useful information on BVH motions and Poser, following my recent post and link to the CMU conversion set. <\/p>\n<p>Reallusion shipped a <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120728023832\/http:\/\/www.reallusion.com\/iclone\/Help\/iClone3STD\/08_Animation\/Using_BVH_Motion_Converter.htm\">BVH Motion Converter 5<\/a> with iClone.  This was a simple utility that had auto-conversion profiles for Poser. It loads .BVH and .HTR files. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/oldimages\/bvh-motionc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/oldimages\/bvh-motionc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"599\" height=\"448\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12115\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It shipped with the Pro version of iClone 5, but not with the Standard version or with later versions.  iClone 5.51 Pro was the &#8220;last good&#8221; version of iClone, before the changed UI and other regrettable changes, and as such I still have it on my PC along with its bundled utilities.<\/p>\n<p>For others, just getting hold of iClone 5 may not give you this utility in a form useful for Poser, since use with Poser required a set of installed profiles for Poser <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reallusion.com\/de\/iclone\/bvh-motions.asp\">downloaded from Reallusion<\/a> and now no longer available (even from Wayback).  As such, unless you already have this <strong>and its Poser profiles<\/strong> on your PC, you may have to seek out other converter software that &#8216;knows&#8217; about how to save the way Poser wants it.<\/p>\n<p>However, Poser 11 itself is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/?p=12023\">now your BVH motion converter<\/a> to Poser.<\/p>\n<p>Another useful item to know about is <a href=\"http:\/\/ockhamsbungalow.com\/Python\/\">Ockham&#8217;s BVH Mixer<\/a>. This free script still works fine and will let you import a BVH and lop off the weird bits that don&#8217;t work on your character, then save to a new BVH. <\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also a free <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160812123944\/http:\/\/www.developmentinmotion.nl\/software\/bvhviewer\/\">BVHViewer 1.1<\/a>, made by Ben from Development in Motion for quickly previewing BVH motions. &#8220;Quickly scroll through a folder of BVH motion files&#8221;. Big window, good preview. Still available via Archive.org. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/oldimages\/82.01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/oldimages\/82.01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"172\" height=\"343\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16774\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little more useful information on BVH motions and Poser, following my recent post and link to the CMU conversion set. Reallusion shipped a BVH Motion Converter 5 with iClone. This was a simple utility that had auto-conversion profiles for Poser. It loads .BVH and .HTR files. It shipped with the Pro version of iClone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-companion-software","category-poser"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}