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Deprecated

NOTE -  The SBMonitor is now deprecated, deferring it's functionality to the SBGui in Monitor Mode.  Will have documentation for this soon.

Overview

The SmartBody Monitor (SBMonitor) can connect to any actively running Smartbody SmartBody process in order to easily interact with and debug it.

Quick facts:

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Users

Connecting to

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SmartBody

1. Go to File -> Open (or hit Ctrl + C)
2. Wait 2 seconds for the dialog to appear
3. Select the desired Smartbody SmartBody process to connect to and click the "Connect" button

Resource Viewer

Used for viewing all the resources that Smartbody SmartBody is currently loaded, including .sk's, skm's, characters, services, events, face definitions, sequence and python files, paths, etc.

Data Viewer

Using a line graph to track channel values of a specific character's skeleton over time

Command Window

Facilitates the issuing of python, sequence, and VHMsg commands to Smartbody SmartBody

Python Command format

<return value type> <python command>

int scene.getNumCharacters()

Possible return types: int, float, bool, string, int-array, float-array, string-array

Face Viewer

Allows the viewing and real-time manipulation of all AU's and visemes that are loaded for the selected character.

Utils Tab

Provides an easy to use interface for commonly used Smartbody SmartBody functionality such as playing animations, setting postures, sending bml, gazing at targets, and text to speech commands.

BML Creator

Easily allows the creation of simple to complex BML commands through GUI buttons and sliders.

Developers

Creating a Dialog

1. Run https://svn.ict.usc.edu/svn_vh/trunk/lib/qt/bin/designer.exe
2. Create a new dialog and save it in smartbodySmartBody/sbm-debugger/gui/designer
3. Open sbm-debugger\gui\SbmDebuggerGui.sln. Create a new class that publicly derives from QDialog and have the header include "ui_YourDialogName.h". If you compile, you will have compiler errors
4. Open a command prompt to smartbodySmartBody/sbm-debugger/gui
5. Enter the following commands**
   
   1. qmake -project
   2. qmake
   3. nmake
6. Edit smartbodySmartBody/sbm-debugger/gui/moc.bat by adding the following line
   
   1. %MOC% YourClassNameThatYouJustCreated.h -o moc_YourDialogName.cpp
7. Run smartbodySmartBody/sbm-debugger/gui/moc.bat
8. Copy moc_YourDialogName.cpp from the Debug folder into smartbodySmartBody/sbm-debugger/gui
9. Add moc_YourDialogName.cpp and ui_YourDialogName.cpp to the vcproj under the Generated folder

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• QMAKESPEC            win32-msvc2010

Message API

Sends

• sbmdebugger

Receives

• sbmdebugger

Known Issues

When using the Utils tab to query a large list of animations from Smartbody, sometimes buttons on the tab will disappear. 

FAQ

/wiki/spaces/VH/pages/30081695FAQ