parse-bvh

1.0.2 • Public • Published

parse-bvh

Parses BioVision Hierarchy (BVH) motion capture files into a JavaScript friendly object representation.

More info on BVH:

example

const fs = require('fs')
const parseBVH = require('parse-bvh')
 
console.log(parseBVH(fs.readFileSync('example.bvh').toString()))

install

npm install bvh-parser

api

require('parse-bvh')(bvhString)

Takes a BVH file as a string as input

  • bvhString is the contents of a BVH file

Returns An object representing the data contained in the BVH file. It has the following properties:

  • joints an array of all the joints in the file, sorted by order of occurrence in the biovision file. Each joint has the following properties:
    • name the name of the joint
    • index index of the joint in the joints array
    • offset a 3D vector offset of the joint
    • channels the parameters describing the joint
    • channelOffset start of the channel offset in the joint
    • parent reference to parent joint
    • children an array of all child joints for a given joint
  • frameTime the number of seconds/frame in an animation
  • frames an array of frames. each frame is a flat array of all channel data for each joint

credits

(c) 2018 Mikola Lysenko. MIT License

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npm i parse-bvh

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1.0.2

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