Kinect 2 + Particles : HELP

[nabil]

I am on a deadline for a school project and I really need help.

Long story short: I’ve been struggling for 3 months to create a particle animation using Kinect movement + depth. I am totally new to this. Never coded anything in my life. Bought the Kinect just for this purpose.

I started off with Processing. read books about it, watched every possible video tutorial… Couldn’t get it to work. I managed to get my depth image, IR, etc… But no idea how to create a particle system and have it be generated via movement from the Kinect

After months, I discovered vvvv. All the videos I’ve seen of projects using the Kinect are EXACTLY what I’m trying to do. I installed Windows on my Mac just to use vvvv

Now, here I am : I downloaded this “Spectral Kinect” patch from this site. Luckily there was a Kinct V2 version in it, because other patches I found are for Kinect v1. Anyways, I launch it but my Renderer is black… Just pure black. No image, no particles, nothing

I also tried creating a simple Patch by following a YouTube tutorial. The patch takes the Kinect as input, feeds it through a Player and FullScreenQuad and ultimately to a Renderer: Does not work, black screen.

I need this fixed ASAP.

PLEASE HELP ME OUT

[motzi]

spectral kinect is rather old.
you might want to have a look at dx11.particles:

DX11.Particles

there is an example patch in girlpower for working with the kinect.

[nabil]

Thank you so much for taking the time to reply

I did discover DX11 Particles after posting my question, tried to make it work, but I only see a red silhouette of myself.

I have zero knowledge on how to make the patch work the way I want it to. In the demo video for DX11 Particles, they show practically everything I want to achieve. However the Kinect patch in /girlpower doesn’t work for me. There is one that works and it emits a particle system from the image it gets from the kinect, but the particles don’t follow my movements and I don’t know which parts of the patch to tweak to change certain values

[motzi]

did you check whether you are using the right kinect node (there is a v1 and v2 node)? (just double-click the node and select v2 in the node browser )

[nabil]

Hi motzi,

I did, and I’m using the correct Kinect2 node. I don’t have any red nodes indicating there is an error.

This is a screenshot of what I see by using an example patch from /girlpower from DX11 Particles. As you can see, a particle system emits from the image seen by the Kinect, which is a beginning, but my movements aren’t driving the particle system.

I don’t know which values / nodes to change to make this do what I want it to.

However, I did just find a patch that works perfectly and kinda does what I want it to do. Only thing is, I want to edit it but the node setup is way beyond my comprehension. I posted a question in the thread where I found the patch, maybe you can help ? The last post in the link below is my question:

DX11.Particles Kinect emission density

Hi tmp, Many thanks for the hint. Tested the particle count. Indeed I am not sure if the filtering I am using is correct, so I just covered the sensor. Only a little area was detected and emitted particles. Please have a look at the screenshot. On the left side the sensor is covered and on the right side particles emitting from the full image. The values from the readback IDs are very similar in both cases (just jittering). The test was done with the patch you sent earlier and only the Kinect n…

Thank you so much for all the tips, I truly appreciate any help