parse-bvh

Parses BioVision Hierarchy (BVH) motion capture files into a JavaScript friendly object representation.

More info on BVH:

• https://research.cs.wisc.edu/graphics/Courses/cs-838-1999/Jeff/BVH.html
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biovision_Hierarchy

example

const fs = require('fs')
const parseBVH = require('parse-bvh')

console.log(parseBVH(fs.readFileSync('example.bvh').toString()))

install

npm install bvh-parser

api

require('parse-bvh')(bvhString)

Takes a BVH file as a string as input

• bvhString is the contents of a BVH file

Returns An object representing the data contained in the BVH file. It has the following properties:

• joints an array of all the joints in the file, sorted by order of occurrence in the biovision file. Each joint has the following properties:
  • name the name of the joint
  • index index of the joint in the joints array
  • offset a 3D vector offset of the joint
  • channels the parameters describing the joint
  • channelOffset start of the channel offset in the joint
  • parent reference to parent joint
  • children an array of all child joints for a given joint
• frameTime the number of seconds/frame in an animation
• frames an array of frames. each frame is a flat array of all channel data for each joint

credits

(c) 2018 Mikola Lysenko. MIT License