Index files: The release includes consolidated indices that list the motion filenames and their descriptions.

3dsMax BVH import doesn't support both 'wrist' and 'hand' joints, so without this datashift, the wrist rotations of the original capture would end up lost. Hand-to-wrist keyframe migration: This 3dsMax-friendly BVH release shifts keyframes from the 'hand' joints onto the 'wrist' joints, making this data available to Max. Numerous adjustments to the keyframes on the arms were then required to handle the change in rotation axes that happens when you shift the underlying BVH zero pose. For the 3dsMax-friendly release I've adjusted the underlying dataset to put the zero pose into the appropriate arms-down position. Base pose modification: 3dsMax requires an unusual skeleton BVH 'base pose' aka 'zero pose'. This is a huge win, because it means that you don't have to create a skeleton whose bone setup matches that of the original CMU data. Easy retargeting: since 3dsMax Biped allows biped-to-biped retargeting even across different Biped skeleton setups, it's now possible to use the CMU motion data with arbitrary Biped skeletons, at least within 3dsMax. Joint renaming: As many joints as possible have been renamed to be compatible with 3dsMax's BVH import capability for Biped. Very easy and fast to use with 3dsMax Biped. 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.Īdvantages of this release over the original Carnegie-Mellon data :

BVH release of 2548 human motions from the Carnegie-Mellon Graphics Lab Motion Capture Database. May 2009: This page has the download links to a 3dsMax-friendly. MotionBuilder users: you probably want this page instead. Daz Studio / Poser / Carrara users: you probably want this page instead.

Cmu motion capture dataset