{"id":24368,"date":"2026-02-23T17:37:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T17:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/?p=24368"},"modified":"2026-02-23T17:51:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T17:51:57","slug":"2600-carnegie-mellon-bvh-files-for-poser-as-animated-gif-previews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/2026\/02\/23\/2600-carnegie-mellon-bvh-files-for-poser-as-animated-gif-previews\/","title":{"rendered":"2,600 Carnegie Mellon .BVH files for Poser, as animated .GIF previews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I see that Shriinivas has <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Shriinivas\/cmubvh\/tree\/main\">an animated directory<\/a> for the 2,600 Carnegie Mellon .BVH motion capture files. Released November 2023, you get little munchkins in .GIF animations which show each motion-capture.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-23_124251.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-23_124251.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1025\" height=\"247\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-23_124251.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-23_124251-300x72.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-23_124251-768x185.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1025px) 100vw, 1025px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The .BVH files are linked with a named link alongside each animation, but note that these don&#8217;t lead to the Poser versions. For Poser you want the <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/cmu-ecstasy-motion-bvh-poser-friendly-2012\">cmu-ecstasy-motion-bvh-poser-friendly-2012<\/a> freebie archive. But the names in each set are the same. Thus Shriinivas&#8217;s &#8220;90_09&#8221; means that in the Poser files you need to look in folder &#8220;90&#8221; and there find the file &#8220;90_09.bvh&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>Scroll down his page to see the link to sub-pages for named &#8216;Animation Categories&#8217;, e.g. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-23_173322.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-23_173322-300x190.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-24370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-23_173322-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-23_173322.jpg 389w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Instructions for loading .BVH to a Poser figure, <a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/2019\/11\/02\/ecstasy-motions-for-poser\/\">here<\/a>. Sadly there&#8217;s still no drag-and-drop of .BVH in Poser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I see that Shriinivas has an animated directory for the 2,600 Carnegie Mellon .BVH motion capture files. Released November 2023, you get little munchkins in .GIF animations which show each motion-capture. The .BVH files are linked with a named link alongside each animation, but note that these don&#8217;t lead to the Poser versions. For Poser [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,9,3,4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-companion-software","category-freebies","category-poser","category-spotted-in-the-news","category-the-animation-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24368","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=24368"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24375,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24368\/revisions\/24375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}