Hi,
I'm currently using some Maya mocap dance files (which came with a simple character-model) in Houdini. I converted them from .ma to .abc and they work fine in Houdini. But now I want to extend my dance scene, but I only have 2 motion capture files. So I came up with the idea to use the Mixamo mocaps. But I need to know some things first, as I have no experience in rigging, and that stuff.

1. How do I delete the mocap animation of my firstly used .abc-file; so that I get a simple T-pose or whatever?

2. How can I then get the Mixamo mocap on my model? I know, Mixamo yields an .fbx; but how to extract and apply the new mocap to my model?

any hints, starting points and tutorials are welcome
thanks in advance

if you can get the mocap skeleton and your mesh in a t-pose then it should just be a matter of capturing the geometry…

hmm thats what i thought, but it seems i'm doing something wrong here.

I got a T-Pose model and my Skeleton, I aligned it and then pressed Capture Geometry. First selected my mesh, then my Skeleton; that works fine, and it's calculating something (as shown in this tutorial at around min 13:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnVSvfnlPK4).

But Nothing more happens, my mesh doesn't move, only the Skeleton does; there is no error report, I even got a capture Cache and all those corresponding nodes.


What am I missing here?

if you can post your files here I can take a look.

I'd really appreciate that.
Thanks

after your object_merge node in the t-pose go, add an Unpack SOP - the alembic is coming in as an Alembic Packed Object - which only has one point.

Many Thanks
That helped