Arduino to Daz Studio bridge for PC-Win (mocap)

mCasual · October 2016

so if you have an Arduino

or

if you have a microcontroller that talks to the PC using the serial ports and you make it "talk" according to the special format i used

https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts7/mcjcomkit

1 short arduino program ( sketch )
1 PC-Win Application ( the bridge )
1 Daz Script

The daz script is a very slightly modified version of the Wii and the Gamepad "Client" which you may want to look at !

you start the script,
the script starts the bridge
the bridge establishes the communication with the arduino through a COM/Serial port
the arduino app starts sending the values of the 6 analog inputs ( i have an arduino Leonardo ) to the bridge
the bridge relays them to the Daz Studio script

the client receives 6 numbers between 0 and 1024

i then linked this to Aiko's Shoulder Up-Down angle

if you know arduino programming, the messaging format is simple, so you can easily add, digital input readings

for now the only message transmitted from Daz Studio to the arduino is the sampling rate

in fact the arduino is so short here it is

int rate = 1000;char mesg[100];#define INPUT_SIZE 30  char input[INPUT_SIZE + 1];void setup(){  Serial.begin( 9600 );  Serial.setTimeout( 100 );  while( !Serial )  {  }}void loop() {  byte size = Serial.readBytes( input, INPUT_SIZE );  input[size] = 0;  char* command = strtok(input, ",\n");  int numFields = 0;  char fields[5][16];  while( command != 0 )  {    strcpy( fields[numFields], command );    ++numFields;    command = strtok(0, ",\n");  }  if( numFields &gt; 0 )  {    if( strstr( fields[0], "HEAD" ) )    {      sprintf( mesg, "[\tHEADERS\t%ld\t%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t]",         millis(),         "A0", "A1", "A2", "A3", "A4", "A5"        );      Serial.println( mesg );    }    else if( strstr( fields[0], "RATE" ) )    {      if( numFields &gt;= 2 )      {        rate = atoi( fields[1] );      }    }  }  sprintf( mesg, "[\tDATA\t%ld\t%d\t%d\t%d\t%d\t%d\t%d\t]",     millis(),     analogRead( A0 ), analogRead( A1 ), analogRead( A2 ),     analogRead( A3 ), analogRead( A4 ), analogRead( A5 )   );  Serial.println( mesg );  delay( rate );}