Hello! I am participating in a small project aiming to create Motion capturing system. I must create some kind of visual representation of the collected data.

For input I have quaternions representing the rotation of different body parts. I took a look at ProceduralAnimationSample and modified ( deleted what I didn't understand ) targetJoint function. It now looks like this:


private void targetJoint(SkeletonPose pose, int jointIndex, float x, float y,
    float z, float w) {
   
        final int parentIndex = pose.getSkeleton().getJoint(jointIndex).getParentIndex();

        // neckBindGlobalTransform is the neck bone -> model space transform. essentially, it is the world transform of
        // the neck bone in bind pose.
        final Matrix jointInverseBindPose = pose.getSkeleton().getJoint(jointIndex).getInverseBindPose();
        final Matrix jointBindPose = jointInverseBindPose.invert();

        Quaternion quat = new Quaternion(x,y,z,w);

        final Matrix subGlobal = quat.getRotationMatrix();
       
        // now remove the global/world transform of the neck's parent bone, leaving us with just the local transform of
        // neck + rotation.
        subGlobal.matMul(jointBindPose);
        subGlobal.matMul(pose.getSkeleton().getJoint(parentIndex).getInverseBindPose();

        // set that as the neck's transform !!
        pose.getLocal(jointIndex).setTo(subGlobal);
    }


I set left and right foreams of Seymor model with sample quaternion and expected them to point at same direction. But the angles were mirrored which I think has something to do with the joints unrotated orientation. I really don't get how these things work and I am missing the bigger picture. So please help me to make the joints point the same direction when I rotate them with one and the same quaternion. I really spent more than 10 hours and couldn't figure it out. As you can see English is not my native language and not a skilled Java person or mathematician ( just hardware guy ). Thank you