I had another couple quick questions for anyone really familiar with Motionbuilder cameras and settings.  First, is there a way to get the camera to follow the actor when streaming live Mocap data?  Secondly, I’m a Max user, so is there a way to set the middle mouse button to zoom in/out?  I already have the keyboard layout changed to 3DS Max, which is nice, but the middle mouse button still doesn’t zoom like in Max.

you can use constraints to make a follow camera really quickly ( just limit the constraint axis for position to x/z )for example.

Max middle mouse zoom, ctrl + alt mm zooms just like it does in max? are you wanting it to do the middle mouse wheel? I don’t think they have that mapped.

Brad Clark
Co-Founder: Rigging Dojo-Teaching the art and science of character rigging
Author: Inspired 3D Advanced Rigging
The Character Animator Toolkit for Motionbuilder :available now:

you can just uncheck the affected axis in the constraint or you can use position limits.

If you want to make a FPS camera you can use relation constraints and the mouse or keyboard device and map it to your camera so you can drive or fly it around the scene.

As for the characterization problem it could be many things but it sounds like the skeleton is not build correctly or it is in a strange T pose when characterized. I can’t really help you on that with out looking over a file but I currently don’t have time to do that right now.

Brad Clark
Co-Founder: Rigging Dojo-Teaching the art and science of character rigging
Author: Inspired 3D Advanced Rigging
The Character Animator Toolkit for Motionbuilder :available now: