bvhacker help: Known issues and further work

Here you will find a list of bvhacker's known issues and details of possible new features. If you have an issue that is not listed here, please contact me at support at davedub dot co dot uk.

Known issues

  • The install package doesn't always install the Visual Studio runtime libraries on some platforms. bvhacker displays a message saying 'the application failed to initialise properly'. To fix, unzip the download bvhacker installer and find a folder called vcredist_x86. Inside there is a program called vcredist_x86.exe. Run this file and the application should now start.
  • Files opened from the desktop can cause bvhacker to crash. This is a Microsoft MFC bug
  • The selected item is not always updated in the tree view if the cursor keys are used to select joints
  • bvhacker won't properly display files with more than one ROOT
  • Using the joint Zero button will cause the hips to be selected immediately afterwards
  • The figure height value will be innacurate if the figure's hands are above it's head in the first frame
  • SLify function still has a bug in the arms joint rotations. If the arms are initally aligned on the Y axis there may be small rotation errors

Possible future enhancements

  • Make hips rotation global so entire character can be rotated
  • Enhance the display by using shadows and anti-aliasing
  • Speed up almost all operations by optimising the way in which the motion data is stored
  • Add 'undo' functionality