Inverse Kinematics

Animating the right arm of a skeletal rig using two different Inverse Kinematics methods; Cyclic Coordinate Descent and Jacobian.

Languages Used

• C++

Project Highlights

To see the a project overview and to dive into the math, check out Inverse Kinematics at my portfolio JoshPatel.ca.

Getting Started

To view the source code and test the program, do the following:

• Download and install Microsoft Visual Studio.
• Open the project solution:

CA2-InverseKinematics\build\Inverse Kinematics.sln

Running The Program

To run the program within Visual Studio, click on:

Local Windows Debugger

To run the program without Visual Studio, run the exectuble:

CA1-ForwardKinematics\ResultDemo\Forward Kinematics.exe

If you see the following error:

Error MSB8036 The Windows SDK version 10.0.16299.0 was not found.

Go to:

Project->Properties->Configuration Properties->General->Windows SDK Version

Change the SDK version to your VS20** SDK version.

Demo

Cyclic Coordinate Descent

Jacobian

Authors

• KangKang Yin - Initial framework and mocap data