Built from the ground up, Shōgun takes advantage of Vicon’s 35 years’ experience in motion capture and the improved technology available in Vicon Vantage and Vicon Vero cameras.
Today’s visual effects productions need to be achieved in real time and deliver the highest quality skeletal data in the shortest time possible. Shōgun 1.4 complements and supports existing groundbreaking features including Live Subject Calibration, SDI Video Support, and Unbreakable Solving.
Shōgun 1.4 features a brand new high resolution finger solver supporting a full finger model capable of capturing high fidelity motion, including palm motion, developed over 18 months in collaboration with Framestore.
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Shōgun 1.4 features a brand new high resolution finger solver supporting a full finger model capable of capturing high fidelity motion, including palm motion. Based on an 18-month project with Framestore, one of the leading film and television production houses, we co-developed the tool and road tested it on a number of real life shoots. Based on a high-density, 58-marker hand model we are able to constrain the skeleton and create reduced marker sets while maintaining the full hand model underneath. This allows production houses to produce previously unseen levels of finger animation, using a production-friendly marker-set, all in realtime, with Shōgun’s proven Subject Calibration workflow.
The time it takes from an actor putting on their suit through to when you call ‘Rolling’ can be substantial. Shōgun features a new live subject calibration, this means that you can be fully calibrated in under a minute. Initial labeling of your actors starts automatically as soon as they enter a T-pose. Shōgun then processes each frame of the ROM as it’s being captured, dynamically calibrating the subject in the background. This results in a proportionally accurate skeleton and delivers outstanding labeling results.
Shōgun 1.4 supports the ability to scale processes across multiple machines. For example, reconstruction and labeling can be run on one machine with solving and retargeting run on a second machine. This will help reduce CPU load and allow for larger more complex captures. Things like fingers and retargeting come with an extra processing cost which can often lead to unwanted dropped frames. Multi-machine will help reduce the amount of dropped frames and help keep everything running smoothly.
New to Shōgun 1.4 is the ability to retarget from the Vicon Shōgun character onto any custom character. We understand that customers would prefer to see their own characters being driven by the motion capture data rather than ours. Working in conjunction with our plug-ins it takes only a matter of seconds before you can see the character in the game engine. Speed up the production process by visualizing the motion capture performance using assets and tools you are familiar with.
The labeling and solving within Shōgun represent a step change in what a motion capture platform can provide in real time. Shōgun’s ability to deal with marker occlusions is unprecedented in the world of mocap and reinforces your confidence in the most challenging shoots. Some markers might be hidden but your character solve continues. Complex scenes like fight sequences and stunt work involving multiple actors all benefit from this unbreakable realtime.
All the data is written in real time directly to disk, meaning you no longer need to fully re-process your data after capture. This saves you and your productions a huge amount of time in Post. Simply drag your mocap file into Shōgun Post and review your data within seconds, knowing that it’s exactly what you saw during the shoot. Data can be reprocessed from raw, but using Shōgun’s unbreakable realtime, in many cases this won’t be necessary. Shōgun Post features a new data heat map showing the data quality across your take. The Live improvements in labeling are also available in Shōgun Post.
We have improved the occlusion fixing in Shōgun 1.4 to now work better when capturing fingers. This allows users to perform motion whereby many of the markers get hidden yet the skeleton underneath still looks believable.
We have added support for Python 3 in both the Live and Post API. This allows users to create their own applications that interact with Shōgun using the latest version of Python. This includes full support for commands based around capture, system calibration, subject calibration and MCP review.
We have added the ability to reprocess an MCP file that has dropped frames using either the command line or Shōgun Post. This is especially useful for users with large systems looking to capture lots of subjects and props at once. If you open an MCP file with dropped frames into Post it will quickly reprocess the data before opening the file.
We have created a brand new tracking panel that makes it much easier to manage and create subjects and props. This panel combines features from the subject panel and subject calibration panel and brings everything together in one simpler interface. Calibration, Re-calibration, Retargeting and Color selection can all be setup and each subject, prop and cluster is listed in the tracking panel list.
We have improved the look of the skeleton that gets created during Live Subject Calibration. Specifically the hands now look more realistic and the shoulder position is a better fit. This makes the whole character more anatomically correct and helps for a more believable performance.
| Current release version | Windows 10 | Windows 7* | Linux | OSX |
| Shōgun 1.4 | 64 bit | x | x | x |
| Nexus 2.10.3 | 64 bit | x | x | x |
| Tracker 3.7.0 | 64 bit | x | x | x |
| Polygon 4.4.6 | 64 bit | x | x | x |
| Capture.U Desktop | 64 bit | x | x | 10.12 |
| CaraLive 1.3.0 | 64 bit | 64 bit* | x | x |
| CaraPost 1.2.0 | 64 bit | 64 bit* | x | x |
| Pegasus 1.2.2 | 64 bit | 64 bit* | x | x |
| ProCalc 1.3.0 | 64 bit | x | x | x |
| ProEclipse 1.3.1 | 64 bit | 64 bit* | x | x |
| DataStream SDK 1.10.0 | 64 bit | x | 64 bit | 10.11 |
| Bodybuilder 3.6.4 | 64 bit | 64 bit* | x | x |
Please do note:
Versions
Shogun_1.4.0 Shogun_Post_1.3.1 Shogun_1.3.0 Shogun _1.2.1 Shogun _1.2.0 Shogun _1.1.0 Shogun _1.0.1 Shogun _1.0.0Shogun_1.4.0
Shogun_Post_1.3.1
This is an updated version of Shogun Post only which fixes a number of small bugs found since release. Please use the next link to download Shogun Live 1.3 if you haven’t already.
· Fixed issue with video converter producing black videos
· Fixed pre-rotation values getting replaced as part of “Prep Unused Bones”
· Timeline playback now starts from correct frame
· Camera view filters now match Live
· Can now use Xray mode in camera view
· Drop fixing now works with the new finger skeletons
· Frame selection now works with cameras
· Added scrollbar to the pipeline editor
· Marker editing panel now scales correctly
· Improved static mesh manipulation
· Fixed a crash importing certain x2d files
· Fixed crash when changing retarget scale
Thank you for choosing Shogun for your motion capture pipeline.
Shogun_1.3.0
Abstract
Vicon Shōgun is a new motion capture software platform for entertainment users that introduces an exciting new set of innovative features unique to Vicon. Shōgun’s new feature set will change the way you work by improving efficiency at each stage of the motion capture workflow, saving you time and delivering the highest quality data in record time. Shōgun supersedes the current industry-leading Vicon Blade software. The Shōgun platform consists of two executables: Shōgun Live and Shōgun Post.
Shōgun allows you to do more than ever possible before in Live. Our new software allows you to calibrate your subject in Live; monitor your camera health frame by frame; see a step change in labeling and solving quality; provides a functional and scaled subject mesh; overlays 3D and calibrated video; directly streams to game engines; all while writing your real-time data directly to disk. Load data into Post in seconds, address issues in a file automatically as it loads, see the overall quality of data presented on your time bar, then make use of the most powerful tools in mocap to polish your take.
The latest release of Shōgun Live & Post includes the following new features.
LIVE
POST
Shogun _1.2.1
Abstract
File Name: Shogun_1.2.1.109386h_x64.zip
Shōgun 1.2.1 includes a number of bug fixes and adds the ability to control Live Subject Calibration using the Live API.
Fixes include:
Shōgun Live:
Shōgun Post:
Requirements
N.B. – The licensing system for Shōgun differs from Blade and other Vicon software applications. Although there are two executables (Live and Post) there will only be one licence type = Shōgun (as opposed to Shogun Live and Shōgun Post). Shōgun Post is seat-licensed and requires one free seat of Shogun per instance of the software that is desired to be used simultaneously. Shōgun Live however uses a new ‘catch and release’ concept. Shōgun Live does perform a licence check during launch and must find a valid Shōgun licence, but does not ‘check out’ this licence.
Shogun _1.2.0
Abstract
File Name: Shogun_1.2.0.108131h_x64.zip
Shōgun 1.2 introduces a number of new features including
Live:
Custom skeleton support in Shōgun. SDI video support. Prop mesh with manipulator in Live. Vue and SDI video is now part of MCP Review. Live subject calibration feedback. Camera rays are now visible. Marker co-variance is now visible. Improved 3D overlay with opacity slider. Reload Subject button. Removed the idea of Y/Z up in Shogun.
Post:
Offline subject calibration. Brighten video files as part of your batching in Shōgun Post. Batch export video files as image sequences in Shōgun Post. Print timecode to videos in Shōgun Post. Zoom the Shōgun Post time bar and easily set range handles. Populate updated subjects across MCP files via batching. Ability to set primary selection color and improved visual representation.
275 bug fixes including: Improved finger-solving using new subject models. Workspace axis is larger and off to the side. Origin in clearly marked on the grid. Improved alias folder management. Improved booting during subject calibration. ExportFBX.hsl no longer has the wrong defaults. Exporting subjects to a folder now only requires one click and defaults to the Subjects folder. Removed ‘Keep existing labels’ dialog when removing a subject. Aligned workspace menu in Live and Post. Added a warning window when modifying joint lengths in Post. Added option to remove single frame trajectories from MCP files.
Requirements
N.B. – The licensing system for Shōgun differs from Blade and other Vicon software applications. Although there are two executables (Live and Post) there will only be one licence type = Shōgun (as opposed to Shogun Live and Shōgun Post). Shōgun Post is seat-licensed and requires one free seat of Shogun per instance of the software that is desired to be used simultaneously. Shōgun Live however uses a new ‘catch and release’ concept. Shōgun Live does perform a licence check during launch and must find a valid Shōgun licence, but does not ‘check out’ this licence.
Shogun _1.1.0
Abstract
File Name: ShogunLive 1.1.0.103309h.zip
Shogun 1.1 introduces a number of new features in LIVE and POST.
LIVE:
POST:
Shōgun 1.1.0 Features
Along with a series of addressed issues
Live:
Post:
Vicon Shogun – Final Quality Skeletal Data by Day’s End. Vicon Shogun is a new motion capture software platform for entertainment users that introduces an exciting new set of innovative features unique to Vicon. Shogun’s new feature set will change the way you work by improving efficiency at each stage of the motion capture workflow, saving you time and delivering the highest quality data in record time. Shogun supersedes the current industry-leading Vicon Blade software. The Shogun platform consists of two executables: Shogun Live and Shogun Post. Shogun allows you to do more than ever possible before in Live. Our new software allows you to:
Requirements
Shogun _1.0.1
Abstract
File Name: Shogun_1.0.1.101150h.zip
Shogun 1.0.1 fixes a number of bugs including
LIVE: Subject calibration being slow when lots of clusters are in the system Labeling Cluster Mode is off by default and now warns the user when it’s active. This improves subject labeling performance. Markers in the data stream now have occlusion fixing turned on.
POST: Improved object interaction in the 3D workspace. Fixed crash when importing in FBX files getLastFile HSL now returns correct value
Vicon Shogun – Final Quality Skeletal Data by Day’s End. Vicon Shogun is a new motion capture software platform for entertainment users that introduces an exciting new set of innovative features unique to Vicon. Shogun’s new feature set will change the way you work by improving efficiency at each stage of the motion capture workflow, saving you time and delivering the highest quality data in record time. Shogun supersedes the current industry-leading Vicon Blade software. The Shogun platform consists of two executables: Shogun Live and Shogun Post. Shogun allows you to do more than ever possible before in Live. Our new software allows you to calibrate your subject in Live; monitor your camera health frame by frame; see a step change in labelling and solving quality; provides a functional and scaled subject mesh; overlays 3D and calibrated video; directly streams to game engines; all while writing your real-time data directly to disk. Load data into Post in seconds, address issues in a file automatically as it loads, see the overall quality of data presented on your time bar, then make use of the most powerful tools in mocap to polish your take.
Highlighted Features:
A New Streamlined GUI Live Subject Calibration Scaled Subject Mesh with Video Overlay Unbreakable Solving Camera Health Monitoring and Recovery Write Real Time to Disk Drag and Drop to Post Direct Game Engine Streaming Data Health Time Bar
Requirements
Shōgun 1.0 SafeNet License
Shogun _1.0.0
Abstract
File Name: Shogun_1.0.0.100110h_x64.zip
Vicon Shōgun – Final Quality Skeletal Data by Day’s End.
Vicon Shōgun is a new motion capture software platform for entertainment users that introduces an exciting new set of innovative features unique to Vicon. Shōgun’s new feature set will change the way you work by improving efficiency at each stage of the motion capture workflow, saving you time and delivering the highest quality data in record time. Shōgun supersedes the current industry-leading Vicon Blade software. The Shōgun platform consists of two executables: Shōgun Live and Shōgun Post.
Shōgun allows you to do more than ever possible before in Live. Our new software allows you to calibrate your subject in Live; monitor your camera health frame by frame; see a step change in labeling and solving quality; provides a functional and scaled subject mesh; overlays 3D and calibrated video; directly streams to game engines; all while writing your real-time data directly to disk. Load data into Post in seconds, address issues in a file automatically as it loads, see the overall quality of data presented on your time bar, then make use of the most powerful tools in mocap to polish your take.
Highlighted Features:
A New Streamlined GUI Live Subject Calibration Scaled Subject Mesh with Video Overlay Unbreakable Solving Camera Health Monitoring and Recovery Write Real Time to Disk Drag and Drop to Post Direct Game Engine Streaming Data Health Time Bar
Requirements
Shōgun 1.0 SafeNet License
You can find the latest documentation for all current versions of software at here:
Vicon Core Software will also install documentation/help guide when you install the software.
Once installed, launch the software and select Help > View Installed Help
The following software will install Help:
Nexus 2, Shōgun, Tracker 3, Blade 3, Pegasus, CaraLive, CaraPost, Polygon 4
If the cameras continue to connect with the previous version of software but don’t in the latest version then the software is probably being blocked by the Windows Defender Firewall. Although Vicon officially specifies that the Firewall should be turned off completely to ensure unobstructed communication with the cameras and connectivity devices, sometimes institutional protocols mandate it to be turned on. If this is the case:
If this does not resolve the issue then please contact Vicon Support.
Most settings for Nexus 2.x can be found in C:\Users\Public\Documents\Vicon\Nexus2.x\Configurations. This includes, but is not limited to, pipelines, view options and monitors. A few exceptions include:
Simply copy the files you require from the relevant folder on the processing computer and paste them in their corresponding folder on the new computer.
If you cannot find a setting or are having issues with this process, please contact Vicon Support.
The most powerful processing algorithms and electronics, combined with industry-leading tracking and data fidelity, means motion capture cameras just took another major step forward. Advances in Vicon’s technology IP allow Vantage to hit resolution and speed sweet spots that make it truly unique.
With the best resolution/speed/price offering on the market, Vicon Vero is the latest optical camera from Vicon. Building on the success of Vantage, Vero combined market-leading resolution and speed at an unrivaled price point. Like its bigger brother, Vantage, Vero has on-board sensors that monitor camera position and temperature to ensure optimal performance at all times.
Vicon are here to support you on your Motion Capture journey. We’re happy to provide more information, answer questions and help you find the solution you need. Get in touch with our experts today.
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| Chest | 78.7cm / 31in | 85.1cm / 33.5in | 87.6cm / 34.5in |
| Waist | 63.5cm / 25in | 68.6cm / 27in | 78.7cm / 31in |
| Hips | 81.3cm / 32in | 86.4cm / 34in | 91.4cm / 36in |
| Inside Leg | 66cm / 26in | 69.9cm / 27.5in | 77.5cm / 30.5in |
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| Chest | 86.4cm / 34in | 94cm / 37in | 103cm / 40.6in | 114.3cm / 44.5in |
| Waist | 71.1cm / 28in | 83.8cm / 33in | 90cm / 35.4in | 99.1cm / 39in |
| Hips | 88.9cm / 35in | 94cm / 37in | 100cm / 39.4in | 109.2cm / 43in |
| Inside Leg | 66cm / 26in | 69.2cm / 27.3in | 71cm / 28.3in | 81.3cm / 32in |
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