Step One: What externals to use?
After several failed attempts at downloading and installing SoftVNS (corrupted files?), I finally gave up and began exploring other motion tracking options. My forum diving over at Cycling '74 turned up three more possible solutions: Electrotap's TapTools, Eric Singer's Cyclops, and Jean-Marc Pelletier's cv.jit library. Surface analysis of the three suggests that the cv.jit library will likely be my best bet, based on extra features and budget considerations (it's free).
After spending some time with the cv.jit library's well-designed help files, I've found both the objects I need for motion tracking and some extra goodies that should prove useful. For instance, cv.jit.faces tracks the presence of a human face in a video. I paired it up with jit.desktop to see if it would recognize animated faces in Second Life and, lo and behold, it does. This opens up all sorts of possibilities as far as giving individual users control over specific parameters or their own personal track. While there is no cv.jit object specifically for color tracking, the suckah object should serve well enough.
More fiddling is forthcoming.
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Good for people to know.
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