Kinect driving PhoenixFD

[Steve_Green]

Hi,

Had a play last week driving Phoenix via a Kinect, using Brekel Point Cloud Pro.

https://vimeo.com/68404898

https://vimeo.com/68395851

as far as I can see there's no direct way to use PRT files as a source, so Thinkbox's Frost was used as an intermediate step.

Thanks,

Steve

[vlado]

Heh, looks cool You used Frost to turn the PRT file into a particle system?

Best regards,
Vlado

[Steve_Green]

Hi,

Thanks,


Not particles as such - Brekel Point Cloud saves out PRT data (amongst other formats), I took that directly into Frost, then used the Frost mesh as a source for so it's just an animated mesh.

There are some tests with it directly meshing in Frost on my vimeo page, but the point clouds are a bit noisy when used directly - Phoenix softens it off nicely - even though there's no velocity info from the kinect, it still works pretty well...

Cheers,

Steve

[squintnic]

very interesting
is it going to be possible to load PRT into phoenix at some point?

[Ivaylo Katev]

yes, we have a basic loader now, see in the new version