bmlSUP

The Biomotion Lab SMPL Unity Player (bmlSUP) is a tool to play SMPL-H model animations in Unity Game Engine

It reads and plays animation files with several render settings and allows using SMPL-H models in Unity.

Features:

• Simple controls to move the camera that match the controls in the Unity Editor Scene View.
• Simple controls for playback of the animations including:
  • Play/Pause
  • Playback speed
  • A "scrubber" to jump to a particular part of an animation.
• Can toggle between rendering modes:
  • Opaque mesh, semi-transparent mesh
  • Bones
  • Point-lights for joints.
• Play multiple animations at once
• Save notes about animations while viewing them using the Review Panel.

To show/hide the entire user-interface (UI) press the "U" key. This is useful for screen capturing and recording.

Using the player

The AMASS data comes in .npz format, which is not readable by Unity. This repository contains a python tool to convert .npz files into a Unity-friendly .hf (preferred) or .json files. The folder containing the scripts is contained within the root directory of the repository. There is a Jupyter Notebook in this folder with example code demonstrating how to use the conversion scripts.

• .h5: Faster, smaller, binary (not human-readable), edit in python
• .json: Slower, bigger, human-readable, edit in any text editor.

Loading animations

Upon running the program a load screen will appear. Animations can be loaded as single file, a batch of files, or alternatively there are some included samples.

Batch running:

To run the MoshViewer application on several files in sequence , the programs needs a path to a folder containing animations in the correct format, and a text file containing a list of which animations to play in that folder and in what order.

The format of the list file should be:

animation1.json
animation2.json

You can also play multiple animations together by entering them on the same line separated by a space.

animation1A.json animation1B.json
animation2A.json animation2B.json

You can also specify files inside subfolders:

Set1/animationA.json Set1/animationB.json
Set2/animationA.json Set2/animationB.json