V2 Mocap Operations

This document implements section 77.2, 77.12, and 77.15 production operations. The authoritative machine-readable contract is V2/ue/Content/V2/Production/ProductionOps_V2_Contract.json.

Booking calendar#

Primary stage: Meridian Capture Stage, Los Angeles.

Backup stage: Harbour Light Capture, Vancouver.

Every shoot reserves one cleanup day, one pickup day, a stunt-double fitting block, prop/weapon prep, medic call time, and producer review.

Stunt performer roster#

The per-fighter primary and backup performers are recorded in per-fighter-production-coverage.csv. All stunt agreements carry SAG-AFTRA or equivalent terms, per-shoot insurance, medic coverage, coordinator signoff, and credit/residual language.

Safety coverage per shoot:

Mocap data pipeline#

1. Capture with Vicon and OptiTrack calibrated to the V2 skeleton slate.
2. Run cleanup through the AJA motion pipeline SDK.
3. Retarget through AJA neural retargeting to SK_V2_Fighter.
4. Review foot phase, contacts, root motion, weapon arcs, and fall safety tags.
5. Edit curves and keyframes in the animation cleanup pass.
6. Import approved takes to /Game/V2/Animation/Mocap/<FighterToken>/.
7. Bind take metadata to the fighter signature library and animation choosers.
8. Archive raw data, camera reference, consent logs, and import receipts.

The data pipeline rejects missing take metadata, missing actor consent, unknown fighter tokens, unreviewed weapon replicas, or takes without calibration data.

Session footage archive#

Reference video is retained for animator review and the behind-the-scenes gallery. Each shoot stores:

Stage logistics#

Primary and backup stage rental contracts reserve annual capacity for principal shoots. The primary studio must provide six months notice for capacity loss; the backup studio carries hot-failover terms for disaster recovery.

Performance-capture suits are inspected before call time, cleaned after every shoot day, and retired after failed marker integrity inspection. Maintenance is tracked by suit serial, actor assignment, cleaning batch, and repair ticket.

Equipment manifest per shoot:

Retention and disaster recovery#

Raw capture data is backed up to two independent off-site storage providers and an immutable cold-storage archive. Every take stores shoot id, fighter id, performer id, consent version, equipment manifest hash, safety signoff, and import receipt.

If the primary studio loses capacity because of facility closure, equipment failure, or force majeure, production fails over to Harbour Light Capture within seven calendar days. Shoots with partner-IP dependencies receive licensor notice within 24 hours and retain their review order.