Mobu - OSC Input Device Sample

This sample receives Open Sound Control (OSC) messages from a UDP socket and applies them to a single bone. This source uses the oscpack library for parsing OSC messages and the Windows Sockets API (WSA) for UDP communication.

How to Build

1. Get and build the oscpack library

   You can download the oscpack library source from oscpack GitHub.

2. Set CMake variables in CMakeLists.txt

   # === Environment-specific user configuration ===
   set(PRODUCT_VERSION 2026)
   set(OSC_PACK_ROOT "C:/oscpack_1_1_0/install")
   set(MOBU_ROOT "C:/Program Files/Autodesk/MotionBuilder ${PRODUCT_VERSION}")
   

   • PRODUCT_VERSION: The version of MotionBuilder
   • OSC_PACK_ROOT: The path to the oscpack library root directory
   • MOBU_ROOT: The path to the MotionBuilder installation directory

3. Build the sample with CMake

   cd OSCInputDeviceSample
   cmake -S . -B build -G "Visual Studio 17 2022"
   

   if Release build, run

   cmake --build build --config Release
   

   if Debug build, run

   cmake --build build --config Debug
   

   OSCInputDeviceSample-<version>-MB<product version>.dll will be built and copied to the MotionBuilder <product version>/bin/x64/plugins directory. If you need the debug information, please build with debug configuration and manually copy the OSCInputDeviceSample-<version>-MB<product version>.pdb file to the same directory.

How to Use

This sample plugin will be built as OSCInputDeviceSample-<version>-MB<product version>.dll （and OSCInputDeviceSample-<version>-MB<product version>.pdb if debug）.

Place this file in the MotionBuilder <product version>/bin/x64/plugins directory.

Note

• This project is licensed under the BSD 3-Clause License. Also includes the MIT-licensed library oscpack (see LICENSE/oscpack/LICENSE.txt)

• By default, this sample plugin assumes that the message format follows the VMC (Virtual Motion Capture) Protocol.

  See the link and OSCInputDeviceSample_socket.cpp for more details.