Geometric Hierarchy Tracking

• Powerful and flexible toolset for tracking hierarchies of moving parts in 3D. For example, kinematic chains such as articulated arms, car doors, or pizza boxes; or secondary tracking such as jaws, eyebrows, and bellies.
• Directly tracks supplied meshes, or works from normal (supervised) trackers
• Creates animated deformations of a single mesh, or animated assemblies of individual meshes, or both
• Multi-level hierarchies, such as hands to forearm to upper arm to shoulder...
• Tool to automatically generate weight maps for a rig.
• Tools to split bones and rearrange rigs to make a specified bone the root
• Can layer on top of conventional moving-object tracks to add secondary animation
• Integrates with motion capture shots for conversion to joint angles, ie for export to BVH
• Quick mesh pinning tool for setup and field of view determination
• Filmbox FBX import and export of animated FbxSkin deforming rigs, including vertex weight maps
• BVH import for rapid setup from existing rigs in other applications
• Vertex weight setup with surface lasso, through lasso, paint, airbrush, blur, and checking tools, or imported images
• Mesh smudge and relax tools for manipulating reference meshes to match a shot for subsequent tracking etc
• Can write an "unwrapped mesh" image to guide external painting
• Animated joint locking for editing paths, even changing kinematics during a shot
• Distance lock for low-perspective shots
• Self-occlusion and occlusion from other meshes
• Garbage and alpha masks
• Error curve mini-view shows tracking figure of merit while tracking
• Pass-through vertex numbering available to match vertex caches in other applications.
• Mesh replacement tool preserves vertex weight painting even when changing to a substantially different revised mesh.