The Daz-friendly BVH release of CMU's motion capture database

MotionBuilder users: you probably want this page instead.
3dsMax users: you probably want this page instead.

July 2010: This page has the download links to a Daz-friendly .BVH release of 2548 human motions from the Carnegie-Mellon Graphics Lab Motion Capture Database. This is a large set of professionally-captured human motions of a wide variety of types, suitable for use in animation software, which were previously available only in Motionbuilder-friendly and Poser-friendly versions.

This "Daz-friendly release" is designed for use with the 3rd-generation and 4th-generation prerigged characters from Daz3d.com, including but not limited to:

3rd gen: Aiko 3, Victoria 3, Hiro 3, SP3, Michael 3, David 3
4th gen: Aiko 4, Victoria 4, SP4

TUTORIAL VIDEOS:
- Tutorial part 1
- Tutorial part 2

DOWNLOAD LINKS AND RELATED FILES:

(Download problems? MediaFire can be flaky or overloaded sometimes, since this is "free download space, I get what I pay for." If MediaFire refuses to start a file download, try waiting 24 hours and then try again.)

("Missing directories"? Actually, the CMU dataset does not include a full set of directories numbered 1 through 144. There are some gaps in the numbering. For example, there are no motion directories numbered 95-101 or 129-130. So if it looks like you're "missing some directories", actually you aren't, as long as you download all of the ZIP files below.)

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SECONDARY RELEASE: Daz-friendly hip-UNCORRECTED BVH files release.

Use these files selectively, only if you observe some foot-slippage problems in one or more primary release files above. In general, you'll normally want to use the (hip-corrected) primary release. See the READMEFIRST file that accompanies the primary release ZIP files for a more detailed discussion of the hip-corrected vs. hip-uncorrected releases. The tutorial video also has some content, towards the end of the video, about the primary Daz-friendly vs. the hip-uncorrected Daz-friendly releases.

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OTHER FILES:
- READMEFIRST file from the primary release
- READMEFIRST file from the secondary, hip-uncorrected release.
- Here's the full motions list (word processor version), also included with each of the above .zip files
- 60-second experimental video created using BVH 94_5 from the primary Daz-friendly release.