The industrial robotics project demonstrates the power of combining plugins with Zea Engine. In this example, you can animate a CAD model, rendered inside a LiDAR point cloud environment, using inverse kinematics.
Features
- CAD Visualization
- Animate a robot using inverse kinematics
- Edit keyframes
- Undo and redo your changes
- Show and hide items in the scene, e.g. the environment
- View the project in VR using a HTC Vive or Oculus Rift headset
Live Demo
https://robot-animation.zea.live/
Tips and Tricks
- Try double clicking to focus on a particular spot
- The space bar lets you start and stop the animation
- You can step through keyframes with the < and > buttons in the bottom-right corner
- Enable transform handles with the T key
- Refresh the browser to reset the project
- To disable the keyframes, so you can create your own animation, go to https://robot-animation.zea.live/?nokeys
Links
GitHub Repo
ECOSYSTEM
- Zea CAD to render the robot
- Zea Kinematics to animate the robot
- Zea Potree to render the point cloud environment
- Zea UX for transform handles, object selection and undo/redo
- Svelte Template to build the UI
Potree
Acknowledgements
- Thank you to the team at Potree
- CAD Model by Robert Greene last accessed from GrabCAD on 2020-10-02
- LiDAR scan data by NavVis accessed from their site here