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how to install qkinect.
I don't understand. Tell me step-by-step, please.

Well, there's only two steps:
[*] download the OpenKinect package (http://openkinect.org/wiki/Getting_Star ... urce_files). You won't have to install it, it's just to get the driver files.
[*] install the driver (http://openkinect.org/wiki/Getting_Star ... stallation)

Thank you daniel.
Now, I install qKinect success. This is picture of qKinect capture. ( https://www.dropbox.com/lightbox/home/P ... le%20Album)

But it difference with jfhullo (viewtopic.php?f=17&t=46)

which ,i must config anything.

I can only see sample pictures of Dropbox here...

sorry. http://onbee6.wix.com/onbee

Well, what you see here is the standard plugin interface (just to help you acquire points clouds). Once you have the right point of view, just click on the 'GRAB' button to create a new point cloud.

And what JF was showing in his post was the cloud and a z-buffer created from this cloud (he had already closed the plugin dialog).

You can create such a z-buffer by first defining a 'sensor' (select the cloud, then go to the 'Edit > Sensor > Create' menu).

For Kinect clouds you can leave almost all fields at their default value, but:

• the orientation matrix should be
  X = 1 0 0
  Y = 0 0 -1
  Z = 0 1 0
• the 'Angular steps' can be set to 0.0017

Upon creation you'll see this z-buffer, and you can re-generate it by selecting the created sensor and calling 'Edit > Sensor > Ground Based Lidar > Show depth buffer'. You can also modify the sensor parameters any time with 'Edit > Sensor > Modify'.

I installed CloudCompare from the dmg Mac OSX 10.8.5. But it doesn't have the qKinect plugin pre-installed. I have libfreenect installed and working.

I haven't been able to find the qKinect plugin. Where can I get the plugin?

Thanks.
Ben

Ben:

I'm currently the one building and packaging the Mac OS X versions. Unfortunately at this point if you want the qKinect plugin, you'll have to build it yourself. With the current build setup, there would be some changes required to the CMake build process. If you decide to tackle it, please consider submitting your changes to the github repository.