So I was just wondering something recently as I have been looking at some MikuMikuDance stuff (which VAM does have, some MMD scenes exist with MMD dances). I'm not an expert for the MikuMiku software that the MMD creators use to make their dancing animation... BUT... I have seen some videos / video tutorials of the procedure (or the method) on YouTube and the like.
They're basically 'tracing' the movement of real dancers from dancing / music videos (say, something like the typical K-POP stuff they're using, they watch a real video of those girls / boys bands groups and do their tracing work from there). It's basically a software that makes it possible to 'track' (to some degree) body part movements, and from there you can create or literally just replicate body movements from videos (from the dancers, that is) and that eventually becomes the MMD dance / animation file.
Now of course this is a basic description based on how newb I am on this matter but I get the gist of it.
OK... so now...
I was wondering if this sort of software is available for use with VAM?
So let me be more specific. Let's say... a porn video. Anything from softcore, solo / masturbation / dancing, to hardcore stuff... is it possible right now to use an MMD-style method of tracking movements in a video to create an animation for use in VAM?
Because if it's NOT possible right now to do that for VAM then... I hope the devs at least thought about it, because that would open the doors for quite literally an infinite amount of content for this game (well, this simulator more like, but you get what I mean). If we 'run out' of creators or if authors of animations out there (manually-made, or motion-captured ones) stop making stuff or whatever happens, we could always go use that MMD-style stuff, go on Pornhub or some similar place, find ourselves our preferred stuff and track movements, make ourselves our animation and boom, we have a new scene.
But I'm not aware right now if it's already possible. All I do know is that I'm seeing two types of animations for VAM from the Resources Hub: 1) Manually-made animations (easy to see when you see it, it's sort of janky and unnatural, can still look 'good enough' but it's easy to see when it's not organic or natural-looking), and 2) Motion-captured animations (very rare to find, expensive to make, only a few select Patreons do those, most of them are paid-for, for good reasons too... the equipment required to do that is no joke).
So yeah, possible for VAM right now or not?
They're basically 'tracing' the movement of real dancers from dancing / music videos (say, something like the typical K-POP stuff they're using, they watch a real video of those girls / boys bands groups and do their tracing work from there). It's basically a software that makes it possible to 'track' (to some degree) body part movements, and from there you can create or literally just replicate body movements from videos (from the dancers, that is) and that eventually becomes the MMD dance / animation file.
Now of course this is a basic description based on how newb I am on this matter but I get the gist of it.
OK... so now...
I was wondering if this sort of software is available for use with VAM?
So let me be more specific. Let's say... a porn video. Anything from softcore, solo / masturbation / dancing, to hardcore stuff... is it possible right now to use an MMD-style method of tracking movements in a video to create an animation for use in VAM?
Because if it's NOT possible right now to do that for VAM then... I hope the devs at least thought about it, because that would open the doors for quite literally an infinite amount of content for this game (well, this simulator more like, but you get what I mean). If we 'run out' of creators or if authors of animations out there (manually-made, or motion-captured ones) stop making stuff or whatever happens, we could always go use that MMD-style stuff, go on Pornhub or some similar place, find ourselves our preferred stuff and track movements, make ourselves our animation and boom, we have a new scene.
But I'm not aware right now if it's already possible. All I do know is that I'm seeing two types of animations for VAM from the Resources Hub: 1) Manually-made animations (easy to see when you see it, it's sort of janky and unnatural, can still look 'good enough' but it's easy to see when it's not organic or natural-looking), and 2) Motion-captured animations (very rare to find, expensive to make, only a few select Patreons do those, most of them are paid-for, for good reasons too... the equipment required to do that is no joke).
So yeah, possible for VAM right now or not?