Anybody coding for Kinect?

omega42 · 16-10-2013 01:20PM #1

So I have started looking into Kinect for Windows for an Art Project.

I have some programming knowledge but struggling to get my head around this.

I'm looking to take a 3D model of a fish and attach it to the head point of the Kinect Skeleton but finding it hard to get my head around (C# and Kinect SDK).

There is very little info on line, I've looked through their examples and the avatar using the XNA engine looks promising but replacing the dude with a new mesh seems impossible, I have also been on to coding4fun site but can fing anything there, I've tried interaction with 3dsmax autodesk shiva but can seem to get working.

Anybody have any resources that i may have missed or any help would be great

Thanks

Omega

smacl · 17-10-2013 06:45AM

Some of the folks working on PCL have also linked in Kinect; see http://view.pointclouds.org/news/2013/05/13/kinect-for-windows-with-pcl/

chrislad · 17-10-2013 10:11AM

I was going to do an FYP with Kinect and I did a tiny bit of coding in it. It was difficult to say the least.

I was using this book, which seemed okay.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Beginning-Kinect-Programming-Microsoft-SDK/dp/1430241047/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1382004672&sr=1-7&keywords=kinect+book

omega42 · 17-10-2013 04:41PM

thanks folks, its really doing my head in, i'm sorry i started but u know the way it goes, now that i have started i need to finish lol

CrinkElite · 17-10-2013 04:45PM

Best of luck with it. Probably a nice skill to have considering they'll be baked in to the new consoles (and ultimately laptops too).

Post a youtube of the finished product!

omega42 · 17-10-2013 09:25PM

CrinkElite wrote: »

Best of luck with it. Probably a nice skill to have considering they'll be baked in to the new consoles (and ultimately laptops too).

Post a youtube of the finished product!

I will do, the Idea is an interactive window, when someone walks by the window a fish will swim along with them, turn if they turn and swim out of frame when they do

Idea's, don't you just hate them lol

Dboy85 · 04-11-2013 02:40AM

Post some code and show where you're having trouble. Is it getting the data from the kinect or is it mapping that data to the fish? You'll either have to normalise the vector of the head or map it from the camera vector.

Anybody coding for Kinect?

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