Ever seen a motion capture sword?

25 Jan

This may be slightly old, but still interesting to see. During the motion capture of the car chase scene that was recorded for Metal Gear Rising a few days ago, Yuji Korekado (the man in charge of the game) posted some photos on his Twitter. The most interesting one being this one, of a wooden katana with motion capture markers on it:

Additionally, he posted some other pictures of the motion capture session.

Korekado writes additions and modifications were being made on the fly

Rising’s scenario writer suddenly has to join in

Source: Yuji Korekado’s Twitter

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  • TheRealGamer

    I wonder why it only has 4 sensors and why in those places, I would have imagined something that would cover the length of the sword at least but I’m no expect  in these things I guess :P

    • Anonymous

      I guess it’s easy for the computer to calculate the rest of the shape based on those four points, since the sword is straight and static anyway.

    • Anonymous

      I guess it’s easy for the computer to calculate the rest of the shape based on those four points, since the sword is straight and static anyway.

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