4. quaternion in c4d[Solved]

quaternion in c4d[Solved]

  • H

    On 03/02/2013 at 14:43, xxxxxxxx wrote:

    Hi

    i am trying to import some tracking data (faceshift) into c4d.
    everything works fine, except that i can not get the head-rotation work properly.

    the head rotation i get from faceshift is in quaternion format and consist of 4 float values (x,y,z,w)

    i tried doing something like this:

    newMatrix=c4d.utils.RotAxisToMatrix(c4d.Vector(x,y,z),w)
    headTarget.SetMl(newMatrix)

    i tried a lot with swapping or negating the values x,y,z and w, but had no luck so far.

    i know that faceshift and c4d do not use the same coordinates systems (left handed vs right handed), because to get the head-translation correctly i need to negate the z-value.

    hope someone can show me the way....

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  • H

    On 03/02/2013 at 15:55, xxxxxxxx wrote:

    OK I solved it myself:

    Here is how i got it working:

    newMatrix = quaternionToMatrix(x,y,z,w)
              headTarget.SetRelRot(c4d.utils.MatrixToHPB(newMatrix))

    def quaternionToMatrix(x,y,z,w) :
      xx      = x * x;
      xy      = x * y;
      xz      = x * z;
      xw      = x * w;
      yy      = y * y;
      yz      = y * z;
      yw      = y * w;
      zz      = z * z;
      zw      = z * w;
      vec1=c4d.Vector()
      vec2=c4d.Vector()
      vec3=c4d.Vector()
      vecOff=c4d.Vector()
      vec1.x  = 1 - 2 * ( yy + zz );
      vec1.y  =     2 * ( xy - zw );
      vec1.z  =     2 * ( xz + yw );
      vec2.x  =     2 * ( xy + zw );
      vec2.y  = 1 - 2 * ( xx + zz );
      vec2.z  =     2 * ( yz - xw );
      vec3.x  =     2 * ( xz - yw );
      vec3.y  =     2 * ( yz + xw );
      vec3.z = 1 - 2 * ( xx + yy );
      newMatrix=c4d.Matrix(vecOff,vec1,vec2,vec3)       
      return newMatrix

    here is the link where i found the function:
    http://web.archive.org/web/20041029003853/http://web.archive.org/web/20041029003853/http://www.j3d.org/matrix_faq/matrfaq_latest.html#Q54

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