Forum: BuildAR Questions

Hi, This is Luca from Italy :) First of all a big THANKS for all your efforts to bring AR to everyone for free! I'm posting this because I have a problem with my home PC and BuildAR: I can see the camera working but just for the very first frame... then it disappears leaving a black screen...

dear all, Sorry may be I missed the part. How to create video or movie AR using BuildAR? Any help? Thankyou,

Is it possible for BuildAR playing movie? Any suggest would so appreciate .. thanks,

what about "Multi marker"? under the folder "..\data\pattern\multi" there are some files, I can select "marker.dat" and set the "marker type" to "multi". but I don't know how to use it Thanks a lot

I am a teacher who started know Augmented Reality with the objective to motivate teachers to use it in their classrooms. I have two questions now: 1.- Is possible to create statice models in Skectchup and visualized them in BuildAR?. How can we do that?. 2.- What tool I need to create an...

hey, I think BuildAR is awesome! but ever since I started, I want an animated model, is there a way to do this? if not will it be in the commercial version?

Hi, Does anyone have any tips for exporting animated models from Cinema 4D for use in BuildAR? Any specific file formats or technical aspects I should consider when exporting? I have a model with a simple continuous/infinite rotation animation created using Mograph will this be an issue for...

Hi all, we have a Logitech QuickCam 3000 for business (it uses UVC module in kernel), Linux Debian Lenny and ArToolkit 2.72. If we configure ArToolkit using video capture driver = GStreamer Media Framework and if we set ARTOOLKIT_CONFIG="v4l2src device=/dev/video0 use-fixed-fps=false !...

Hi All, I really am enjoying playing around with BuildAR. My question is this: does the program have the ability to display shadows from the virtural object on screen? any help or guidance is greatly appreciated! Regards, -Zach

Hello, Im trying to work with the software, but when I started, after configuration settings pop up, I just can see the webcam working 1 second, and then black screen. Other times is always black screen, and I remember just one time the webcam worked fine. I will be so glad if someone can...

Hi, We have 2 cameras we have tried to use on a 64 bit machine with the BuildAR software with no luck. The carmeras seem to work fine on their own but when we open the BuildAR program it's just a black screen. This being said, the camera actually registers the marker and pops up the 3d image we...

Any news or updates about it? It's been quite a while now. Is there an expected feature list?

First of all I am running the program on an Asus g50vt laptop with 4 GB ram, Core Duo 2.26 Ghz processor, built in Chicony webcam, Vista Home Premium 64 bit, nVidia GeForce 9800m GS with 512 MB VRAM. I have tried running the installer as Administrator, Running the program as Administrator,...

hi i was wondering if you could flip the web cam video horizontally so that your computer screen acts more like a mirror. when I start buildAR there is a check box that says flip horizontal, but its grayed out. can I edit one of the xml files in the data folder to enable it? thanks!

Currently, my friend and I have been working on Augmented Reality. We've chosen http://www.hitlabnz.org/wiki/BuildAR_Tutorial as a tutorial guide in order to do the project. However, recently we ran into one major problem. After we created a model in Art of Illusion ,we wanted to load a model...

Hi everyone I am a 3D artist with no programming skills, I was asked to research creating AR for our clients, I looked at Artoolkit, and eventualy ended up with BuildAR I can load a marker and a 3D and have it run on my computer, but how can I make an application to host on he web so my...

Hi guys. I really need your help. I’ve been trying to design several markers for my AR using BuildAR. I’ve tried so many ways, from designing my own marker using Photoshop then use BuildAR to generate the .patt file to using online marker generator such as...

Hi, I want to load an animation from Blender to BuildAR but i did not succeed. I've tried .osg files but i only see the objects not the animation. How can i do that ? Is there something to do with Blender ? I have also tried this tutorial to have a spinning earth...

I was playing with builARD (awesome!) and wanted to apply an environment map to fake reflections. I came across a reply on the forum: "apply the reflection texture using spherical mapping texture coordinates. In 3D Studio it's easy: in the material editor, you just choose mapping type...