Currently I am working with an artist in the UK and we each purchased Rokoko Smartsuit Pro a couple of years ago in order to use the Rokoko Studio software to send mocap data to Isadora, and we've discovered that the new version of their software (Rokoko Studio Beta) doesn't yet have the option under "Livestream" to send data to Isadora. (Though using their Rokoko Studio Legacy software is still a stable and viable option for this.)
I'd like to encourage anyone in our community who has used or wants to use Rokoko products for sending mocap data to Isadora to:
- Periodically check the Rokoko Product Roadmap to see if they've added an item for Isadora 3 integration with Rokoko Studio Beta (and upvote it if it's there)
- Send in a feature request to Rokoko politely asking them to add the option under "Livestream" to send data to Isadora frin their Rokoko Studio Beta software (as you could in their Rokoko Studio Legacy software).
- Join the Rokoko Discord and, in the "-feature-request" channel, respectfully ask for the option under "Livestream" to send data to Isadora from their Rokoko Studio Beta software.
Please understand that I am not encouraging anyone to be angry with or to go annoy Rokoko about this, I simply want to make sure that Rokoko knows that members of our community would like the ability to use their mocap products with Isadora again. Ask @mark always says, "The squeaky wheel gets the grease." ;)
If you're unfamiliar with Rokoko's mocap hardware and software, you may want to check out Mark's Guru session on how to use the Rokoko Smartsuit Pro to send live motion capture data from a performer to Isadora and use that data to do many interesting things.
Other existing (free!) resources concerning using mocap/motion capture, body/skeleton tracking, motion tracking, sensor/controller/OSC/MIDI data, and/or 3D workflows with Isadora include:
Resources available for download on the TroikaTronix Add-Ons Page:
- TroikaTronix's Rokoko Studio Live Watcher actor plugin for Isadora 3
- TroikaTronix's OpenNI Tracker actor plugin and OpenNI Tracker Tutorial File for Isadora 3
- @bonemap's OpenNI Line Puppet User Actor for Isadora 3
- TroikaTronix's Basic Motion Tracking Tutorial File for Isadora 3
- @jfg's Visualization Blob Target User Actor for Isadora 3
- @jfg's Visualization Tracking Zone User Actor for Isadora 3
- TroikaTronix's 3D Game Style Navigation Tutorial File for Isadora 3
- TroikaTronix's Arduino Firmata actor plugin for Isadora 3
- TroikaTronix's Leap Motion Watcher actor plugin for Isadora 3
- My Wii Remote User Actor for Isadora 3 on macOS using OSCulator
- My Audio Trigger User Actor for triggering sound files using MIDI notes/control change and OSC in Isadora 3
- My Mouse Control of 3D Particles Example File for Isadora 3
- My Simple MIDI Example File for Isadora 3
- @DusX's Korg NanoKONTROL2 User Actor and @Juriaan's IzzyKorg User Actor for using this handy Korg MIDI controller with Isadora 3
Resources available to watch on the TroikaTronix Youtube Channel (these usually also have a downloadable example file linked in the video description):
- Mark's Guru Session: Body Tracking with Depth Cameras
- Mark's Guru Session: Motion Tracking with Eyes++
- Mark's Guru Session: Dance-Tech Archaeology
- Mark's Guru Session: MIDI Madness
- Mark's Guru Session: Real-Time Interaction with Open Sound Control (OSC)
- Mark's Guru Session: Generating Visuals with the 3D Ropes Actor
- Mark's Guru Session: Real-Time 3D Visuals in Isadora
- The second section of this Guru Session which covers Basic (3D) Particle Systems