# Calculate face direction from bvh or 3d skeleton data

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Hi,

i have a 3d skeleton with Head joint  and neck joint , and i want to caculate where the face is looking at. Face direction vector.

Any ideas?

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What's the difficulty? You have the vector in the frame of reference of the head, so you can map it to world coordinates using the same model-to-world matrix that you use for rendering. Since you are converting a vector, not a point, use a 0' as the fourth coordinate.

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I have Rx=-13, Ry=-3, Rz=4 for the rotations of the head in local cordinates.

Do you mean that i should calculate the transformation matrixes for all axes and multiply them to create R=Rx*Ry*Rz and take the 3rd column of matrix R?

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You should do whatever it is you are doing to place the head in the world. This is probably representable as a 4x4 matrix. Now take the forward-looking vector in the head's model, append a 0' to it and apply the matrix to it.

If your rotation for the head is expressed as a composition of rotations around coordinate axes then sure, do what you describe. But if that fails it doesn't mean I gave you bad advice: It means you don't know how you are transforming your model.

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