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Hi fellows,
I’m working on a kinect input implementation for jME3 that can be easily manipuled with the inputManager. It does work both for Windows, Linux and Mac as well. So I’ve uploaded a Kinect Game Template that can be downloaded via jmpThe jMonkeyPlatform, a full-fledged IDE with plugins for editing jME3 content and assets. Integral part of the jME3 SDK.-contrubutions repository http://code.google.com/p/jmonkeyplatform-contributions/downloads/list. As the project was created on jMPThe jMonkeyPlatform, a full-fledged IDE with plugins for editing jME3 content and assets. Integral part of the jME3 SDK. it can be opened on Netbeans or jMPThe jMonkeyPlatform, a full-fledged IDE with plugins for editing jME3 content and assets. Integral part of the jME3 SDK., if you want to use it on Eclipse or any other environment, just copy the “/lib” folder and add it to your project classpath. About the assets, it’s the same as for the BasicGame template. It was built by using the lastest unstable OpenNI and NITE versions, install details can be found in project root folder, it’s a README file. The usage is very simple, first you have to enable the kinectInput object via AppSettings (like the joystick input) :

        settings.setUseKinect(true);

Then you register a kinect mapping of your choice via inputManager:

        //add a "wave" mapping for listening to "wave" gestures
        inputManager.addMapping("wave", new KinectTrigger(kinectInput.WAVE));

Then register a KinectListener to the chosen mappings via inputManager too:

inputManager.addListener(myKinectListenerImpl, "wave");

Then in your kinect listener you implement the onWaveEvent:

    public void onWaveEvent(String name, NullEvent evt, float fps) {
        //do whatever here
    }

But first you have to perform a “click” or “wave” gesture to start the session. Once started, the kinect will start detecting your gestures .

Usage details can be found in Main.java class inside the project src.

The kinect input is “Multi-threaded” updated by inputManager. It avoids low fps.

Here’s a test that I did on my windows 7 64. FPS not bad :

EDIT: Oh! I forgot to say that it’s me controlling the standalone box with my hand movements .

EDIT2: Oh. Also, there’s a book called “Killer Game Programming” where there’s chapters teaching how to create kinect applications in java by using the openni and nite libralies. Check it out http://fivedots.coe.psu.ac.th/~ad/jg/index.html and go to the “Natural User Interface (NUIs)” session.

-Glauco Márdano

Oh yeah. Nice idea . I’ll see what I can do .

I love you man.

I have successfully installed kinnect on my laptop, and runing Kinect Game Template , everything run good but not with my jmonkey sdk, why my jmonkey sdk show windows error message that Appcrash OpenAL32.dll_unloaded, is there anyone can solve this ?

this is my appcrash :

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: java.exe
Application Version: 6.0.240.7
Application Timestamp: 4d4a0b93
Fault Module Name: OpenAL32.dll_unloaded
Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 4ea646d0
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 1755914a
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1057
Additional Information 1: 0a9e
Additional Information 2: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
Additional Information 3: 0a9e
Additional Information 4: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789

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kinect template can run well, but sometimes that error show when I close jmonkeyNetbeans and sometimes while I run the project but not often,, this is so annoying

Any progress on Kinect interface? Should I invest $200 in the box?

Well.. bone animation recording maybe? Its a biig topic though, retargeting animations from one skeleton to another isn’t exactly easy. Also I think the OSS kinect software doesn’t really give you the full skeleton stuff yet or does it?