PinocchioPlus

This repository is conducting a research on the paper "Automatic Rigging and animation of 3D characters".

1 Installation

1.1 Ubuntu 18.04 (Prefered)

dependencies:

• sudo apt-get install libfltk1.3-dev
• sudo apt-get install libxrender-dev libxcursor-dev libxft-dev libfontconfig-dev libxinerama-dev

1.1.1 Option 1: cmake

PinocchioJingma(jingma-git/Pinocchio) and PinocchioPlus are seperated projects.

# In the PinocchioJingma directory
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make

Example:

./DemoUI ../../data/FinalBaseMesh.obj -motion ../../data/legacy/walk.txt

# In the PinocchioPlus directory
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make

Example:

./PinocchioPlusDemoUI ../../data/FinalBaseMesh.obj -motion ../../data/legacy/walk.txt

Targets will be in the build directory.

1.2 Windows (Visual Studio 2022)

NOTE:

• Currently Windows compatibility only works for PinocchioPlus***.
• There will be runtime error in debug mode, which might be fixed up in the future.
• Only use premake5 to generate project files.

click generate-vs2022.bat, then open up PinocchioPlus.sln in project-files.

• PinocchioPlus*** are our project implementations. We keep the code base as it is. So it can not be compiled in VS2022.
• PinocchioJingma*** are from jingma-git/Pinocchio.

All dependencies should be included.

Example:

./PinocchioPlusDemoUI ../../../data/FinalBaseMesh.obj -motion ../../../data/legacy/walk.txt

2 Usage

2.1 Skinning options

LBS:

./PinocchioPlusDemoUI ../../data/FinalBaseMesh.obj -motion ../../data/legacy/walk_made_by_yulong_.txt

DQS:

./PinocchioPlusDemoUI ../../data/FinalBaseMesh.obj -dqs -motion ../../data/legacy/walk_made_by_yulong_.txt

2.2 Mesh fixing

# In the mesh_fix&simplify directory
python fix.py

3 Useful References

• Repository
  • jingma-git/Pinocchio
  • pmolodo/Pinocchio
• Videos
  • Pinocchio: Automatic Rigging and Animation of 3D Characters
• Additional useful papers
  • Penalty functions for automatic rigging and animation of 3d characters presents more implementation details.
  • Paper explaination.
• Datasets
  • RigNet