Irrlicht + Kinect
Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 12:00 pm
Hey all,
I've just gotten Kinect working in Irrlicht!
I'm just writing up a quick tutorial on how to do this - unfortunately, Windows only. Would this tutorial be something people would want here?
A quick rundown, if anyone wants to try and get things going, without waiting for me.
You'll need:
- A Kinect Sensor
- OpenNI
- NITE
- The PrimeSense driver (with the Kinect mod, this is taken from the official driver and then modified to allow Kinect)
- Irrlicht 1.7.2
- Connect the Kinect sensor to your PC.
- Install the modified driver for Windows.
- Download and install OpenNI (for Windows only, at the moment)
- Download and install NITE (again, Windows only... but they're hard at work doing cross-platform support!)
- Update the XML files in the install director (needs licenses and changes to the settings)
- Test that you can run ALL the Samples
- Modify an Irrlicht example to include the OpenNI/NITE items
- Enjoy motion interaction with an accurate depth buffer
I WILL have some more in depth instructions, links to downloads, potential problems, screens etc... but there's a LOT to it, so please bear with me!
[MODS: If this is in the wrong section, can you please move? My apologies if it's wrong! Thanks]
I've just gotten Kinect working in Irrlicht!
I'm just writing up a quick tutorial on how to do this - unfortunately, Windows only. Would this tutorial be something people would want here?
A quick rundown, if anyone wants to try and get things going, without waiting for me.
You'll need:
- A Kinect Sensor
- OpenNI
- NITE
- The PrimeSense driver (with the Kinect mod, this is taken from the official driver and then modified to allow Kinect)
- Irrlicht 1.7.2
- Connect the Kinect sensor to your PC.
- Install the modified driver for Windows.
- Download and install OpenNI (for Windows only, at the moment)
- Download and install NITE (again, Windows only... but they're hard at work doing cross-platform support!)
- Update the XML files in the install director (needs licenses and changes to the settings)
- Test that you can run ALL the Samples
- Modify an Irrlicht example to include the OpenNI/NITE items
- Enjoy motion interaction with an accurate depth buffer
I WILL have some more in depth instructions, links to downloads, potential problems, screens etc... but there's a LOT to it, so please bear with me!
[MODS: If this is in the wrong section, can you please move? My apologies if it's wrong! Thanks]