moraell
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5 years ago Thanks for the feedback again. I understand what you want. That is actually how I wanted it to work in the first place, but it wasn't possible due to Blender 2.79 issues with multithreading. It may work with Blender 2.80, though, and I can look into it. For now, you can start recording before acting the scene, then remove the beginning, there's a bit of syncing to do but it's not that bad. I tried NI mate too. It uses non official drivers for Kinect and my computer suffered a lot (I lost my system and some data in the process). I managed to make it work but I wasn't happy with the results, maybe because it was only the trial version. I never achieved the integration with Blender, though. And it is a pretty expensive piece of software. I will keep you updated.
thelabcat
Praise God the plugin works! I'd like to make a feature request, though. I wanted to use this for animating a character whilst talking, and thus audio syncing is important. I'd like it if the recording process instead of using the built-in-the-addon keying function would instead use the automatic keyframing button, similar to NI-mate addon (IE, start the tracking so the character is Kinect-ed, turn on the automatic keyframing button, and play animation button so it starts recording). I tried doing this as is but for some reason it didn't work, possibly a coding issue such as using one way to set a pose over a different method. I'm new to blender's python API but know a good bit of python, so if you don't have time to do the coding yourself maybe you'd have it easier if you told me how to do it and I do the brunt work, but IDK.
This explains how to use NI mate. But since that software doesn't work for me I'd use the add-on you wrote. The python code in their addon (which network connects to NI-mate) is legible (decently commented and isn't compiled or anything). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UPZtS5LVvw
Thx again for the great addon and doing this for free!