vizconnect getMovementScale
 

Hello
We are trying to use vizconnect's .setMovementScale() but we don't see any changes in the behavior of the avatar when it is moving. The vizconnect configuration uses Microsoft Kinect/FAAST as a tracker.

I have confirmed that I can change the movement scale VALUES:

Code:

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SCALE = .1
myAvatar = vizconnect.getAvatar()
print 'Original movement scale: ' , myAvatar.getMovementScale()
myAvatar.setMovementScale([SCALE , SCALE , SCALE ])
print 'New movement scale: ' , myAvatar.getMovementScale()

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but like I said above, this does not appear to do anything to the movement of the avatar. I've used values of SCALE as low as 1e-23 and as high as 10000, but the rendered movement seems identical no matter what the value is!

What does this method do, exactly? Am I missing some critical step to get it to work? Thank you!

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated!

It looks like this command is not working with all avatar types. I just tested and it works with the head and hand avatar but not the mark avatar. You should be able to get the same result by applying a scale factor to the tracker links instead:

great thanks.. we will check that out. Two questions:

1) if we want to use the vcc_male avatar, how do I figure out what the named key should be for the tracker in line 1 of your code? 'head_tracker' doesn't seem to work.
2) Can you give me a little more detail on the scaling function? I'm assuming that, if the tracker moves x units (let's say in the z-plane), then postScale([1,1,5]) would move the rendered avatar 5x units. Is that true? Also, can the scaling constant be less than zero?

Thanks!

Hope you had a nice New Year. Just following up on this post. Any advice? Thanks!

The tracker name is the name given in the trackers tab of vizconnect.

Yes, that should work

It can be a number between 0 and 1 if you want to reduce the speed.