Once your MotionStar system is installed, third party providers of plug-in software help with seamless integration of complementary hardware and software products. These plug-ins help smooth out the bumps in animation software programs by allowing you to correct and manipulate data generated from the trackers. Elegant filtering algorithms permit you to remove any jitters so as to smooth out the motion while preserving your data. One handy feature allows you to apply motion capture data captured from a human onto a 3D character of vastly different size and proportion. But enough with the technical details.
Games are about fun and magnetic mocap is the current cutting edge technique in animation.
However you use magnetic motion capture, the effect is sure to move you. And thousands of gamers looking for a new game that really kicks it. Cleopatra Alfenito is a freelance writer based in San Francisco.