http://sites.google.com/a/cgspeed.com/cgspeed/motion-capture/cmu-bvh-conversion ReadmeFirst.txt ================ READMEFIRST v1.00 last update July 20, 2008 by B.

Hahne This READMEFIRST file accompanies the cgspeed.com "BVH conversion" release of the Carnegie-Mellon University (CMU) Graphics Lab Motion Capture Database. See "Where to find stuff" at the bottom of this file for where to get the BVH conversion and/or the original CMU dataset. The original CMU motion capture database isn't in BVH format - it's in ASF/AMC format. This BVH conversion release was created by Bruce Hahne, a hobbyist animator, in the interest of making the data more available and easily usable by other animators. I presently (2008) maintain the web site www.cgspeed.com, where this BVH conversion release will be available or linked. The emphasis on this release is to produce BVH files that can rapidly be used in MotionBuilder for motion retargetting. The files are not yet particularly Poser-friendly or DazStudio-friendly, due to incorrect assumptions that those programs have to make about the underlying joint rotation setup. [...]

USAGE RIGHTS: CMU places no restrictions on the use of the original dataset, and I (Bruce) place no additional restrictions on the use of this particular BVH conversion. Here's the relevant paragraph from mocap.cs.cmu.edu: Use this data! This data is free for use in research and commercial projects worldwide. If you publish results obtained using this data, we would appreciate it if you would send the citation to your published paper to jkh+mocap@cs.cmu.edu, and also would add this text to your acknowledgments section: "The data used in this project was obtained from mocap.cs.cmu.edu. The database was created with funding from NSF EIA-0196217." [...]