vibe_win_install

Video Tutorial

Official Project link: https://github.com/mkocabas/VIBE

Here are some scripts made to make the instalation of Vibe on windows easier.

To install VIBE on windows using this script, you must:

install miniconda: https://docs.conda.io/en/latest/miniconda.html

install VC2017 redist https://support.microsoft.com/pt-br/help/2977003/the-latest-supported-visual-c-downloads

Download and add to system path (only the bin directory)

FFMPEG https://www.gyan.dev/ffmpeg/builds/ffmpeg-release-essentials.zip

Unpacking

Unpack the VIBE github pack to a folder

https://github.com/mkocabas/VIBE/archive/master.zip

unpack the contents of this github to the same folder

https://github.com/carlosedubarreto/vibe_win_install/archive/main.zip

then run in ADMIN mode:

conda create -n venv_vibe python=3.7
conda activate venv_vibe
conda install cudatoolkit=10.1 cudnn=7.6.0

conda install -c anaconda git

install_conda.bat
prepare_data.bat

To use vibe, you must enter the vibe virtual enviroment created:

conda activate venv_vibe

then you can go to vibe folder and execute a test

python demo_alter.py --vid_file sample_video.mp4 --output_folder output/ --display 

Note that all the configuration was made for GPU powered PCs

Blender addon to import data

There is a Blender addon that you can download for free to import the data in a easier way. Go to https://gum.co/mocap_import and download it.

To use to import VIBE pkl data, it is needed to install a python package first. To install it on windows, replace the following code with the directory where your blender is installed (or unzipped)

D:\Blender\blender-2.92.0-windows64\2.92\python\bin\python.exe D:\Blender\blender-2.92.0-windows64\2.92\python\lib\site-packages\pip install joblib'

FBX Conversion

Go to this site and create a free accounthttps://smpl.is.tue.mpg.de/

Download the Unity-compatible FBX file through the  https://psfiles.is.tuebingen.mpg.de/downloads/smpl/SMPL_unity_v-1-0-0-zip

(but it wont work going straight to the link, you must go to the site donwload page. its almost the last link on the page https://smpl.is.tue.mpg.de/downloads)

· Unzip the contents and locate them data/SMPL_unity_v.1.0.0. (the full folder)

· Install Blender python API

pip install bpy 

or if you havbe problems, try installing with conda

conda install -c kitsune.one python-blender 

Donwload version 2.82a https://download.blender.org/release/Blender2.82/blender-2.82a-windows64.zip

copy the 2.82 folder to the same folder that you have the python instalation used

· Run the command below to convert VIBE output to FBX:

python lib/utils/fbx_output.py --input output/sample_video/vibe_output.pkl --output output/sample_video/fbx_output.fbx --fps_source 30 --fps_target 30 --gender female